| The Royal Opera - Morgen und Abend Reviews | 19 April 2024 |
Helena Rasker (Erna), Christoph Pohl (Johannes)
Will Hartmann (Peter), Christoph Pohl (Johannes)
Klaus Maria Brandauer (Olai)
Christoph Pohl (Johannes), Sarah Wegener (Signe)
Helena Rasker (Erna), Christoph Pohl (Johannes)
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Morgen und AbendThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 25 | |
A spellbinding piece that held the audience rapt over its 90 minute running time |
 3 Dec 15 / Opera Journal |
Not comfortable but fascinating |
| 30 Nov 15 / Planet Hugill |
Christoph Pohl is superb as Johannes, as he passes through the different phases of wonderment to the realisation of his death |
| 23 Nov 15 / Express |
Not much happens, but Georg Friedrich Haas’s new opera is a mesmerising evocation of the great hereafter |
| 23 Nov 15 / The Observer |
Und dazwischen das Leben |
| 20 Nov 15 / Neue Zürcher Zeitung |
Morgen und Abend is the kind of opera that gives opera a bad name |
| 19 Nov 15 / The Spectator |
Congratulations to the Royal Opera for putting such an original work on the main stage |
| 18 Nov 15 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
From Morning to Yawning |
| 18 Nov 15 / The Critics' Circle |
Morgen und Abend is thoughtful and beautiful – but it does little for opera |
| 17 Nov 15 / New Statesman |
Life, death and what lies in between |
| 17 Nov 15 / Evening Standard |
Thought-provoking |
| 17 Nov 15 / The Stage |
Brilliant cast delivers an operatic experience like no other |
| 17 Nov 15 / Independent |
Georg Friedrich Haas’s new work explores a realm beyond life |
| 17 Nov 15 / Financial Times |
Fischer Johannes fischt frische Chiffren |
| 17 Nov 15 / Der Standard |
This newest opera by Georg Friedrich Haas can be described as little other than sombre |
| 16 Nov 15 / A Younger Theatre |
One of the most offbeat operatic experiences of 2015 |
| 16 Nov 15 / Music OMH |
Birth, death and the longueurs in between |
| 16 Nov 15 / The Guardian |
Morgen und Abend fails to deliver |
| 16 Nov 15 / Classical Source |
Haas' new opera an atmospheric meditation on birth and death |
| 16 Nov 15 / Bachtrack |
So conceptually unique and so unusual that its originality will confound many |
| 16 Nov 15 / Opera Today |
La vida entre paréntesis |
| 16 Nov 15 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
The German conductor, Michael Boder was totally in control of the huge orchestral forces at his disposal |
| 16 Nov 15 / Opera Britannia |
Haas’s Morgen und Abend is a new existential opera exploring life and death |
| 16 Nov 15 / Seen and Heard |
Beautiful but turgid |
| 15 Nov 15 / Telegraph |
The Royal Opera stages a new work about birth and death that is bold, original and affecting |
| 15 Nov 15 / What's on Stage |
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New opera about death 'needs open mind'
For the first time Klaus Maria Brandauer is about to play in a new opera at Covent Garden - though he's not actually singing.
For the first time Klaus Maria Brandauer is about to play in a new opera at Covent Garden - though he's not actually singing.
Georg Friedrich Haas: ‘We live between contrasts'
He has written music about Austria’s painful politics and a string quartet to be performed in the dark. Ahead of his new opera, Morgen und Abend, composer Georg Friedrich Haas tells about his quest for Klang.
He has written music about Austria’s painful politics and a string quartet to be performed in the dark. Ahead of his new opera, Morgen und Abend, composer Georg Friedrich Haas tells about his quest for Klang.
Production details
Cast
Pohl, Rasker, Wegener, Hartmann, Brandauer
(c) Boder (d) Vick
Performance dates
13, 17, 21, 25, 28 November 2015
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