Oldenburg – Seen and Heard International

Oldenburg’s Hänsel und Gretel fills the theatre with the smell of gingerbread

09/01/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel: Oldenburg State Theatre Soloists. Children’s & Youth Chorus, Oldenburg State Orchestra / Eric Staiger (conductor). Oldenburg, 27.12.2024. (DM-D)

Stephanie Hershaw (Gretel) and Dorothee Bienert (Hänsel) © Stephan Walzl

Imaginative and intelligent revision of Der Freischütz in Oldenburg

26/10/202425/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Weber, Der Freischütz (Additional music by Elena Kats-Chernin. Libretto by Friedrich Kind, in a new version by Susanne Felicitas Wolf): Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Hendrik Vestmann (conductor). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 18.9.2024. (DMD)

Stephanie Hershaw (Ännchen ), Johannes Leander Maas (Max), Adréana Kraschewski (Agathe) © Stephan Walzl

Intense and moving Peter Grimes in Oldenburg

12/05/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Britten, Peter Grimes: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Extras, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater; Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). Oldenburg State Theatre, 5.5.2024. (DMD)

[l-r] Melanie Lang (Mrs Sedley), Kihun Yoon (Balstrode), and Sally du Randt (Ellen Orford) © Stephan Walzl

Oldenburg’s Die Walküre is a major artistic achievement

24/02/202419/01/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). “Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 17.1.2024. (DMD)