{"id":108362,"date":"2025-06-06T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/?p=108362"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:38:49","slug":"arabella-deutsche-oper-berlin-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/arabella-deutsche-oper-berlin-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"ARABELLA – DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN (REVIEWS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Performances on 7, 15 and 20 March 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Here are the most relevant quotes from reviews in the German and international press.
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ConcertoNet <\/a>by Ossama el Naggar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The apotheosis of Zdenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

…German bass-baritone Thomas Johannes Mayer was splendidly convincing as Mandryka. His dark timbre and imposing physique conveyed his boorish and unpolished provincial origins. Thanks to his nuanced acting, he portrayed Mandryka at turns noble, naive, impetuous and amiable, and he succeeded magnificently, his virile bass perfectly blending with Davis\u2019s lyric soprano…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opera Diary<\/a> by Vinicius<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ARABELLA | Deutsche Oper Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Even Thomas Johannes Mayer\u2019s Mandryka<\/strong> suffers the effects of this inescapable transformation, albeit in a more subdued way: the moderately savage (rather a natural authority than a primitive force), somewhat unearthly, slightly monochromatic vigour that he exudes remains present, but wrapped up in an allure as refined as the meticulous care that the baritone brings to each of his interventions; we can easily do without the subtitles, intelligibility assured even at the end of Act 2 when he begins his feverish recitative with Halt! Du irgendeiner oder wer du bist!<\/em> without faltering at any moment.<\/em>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Strauss in Berlin: Arabella at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Jennifer Davis & Heidi Stober<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

…while the role of Mandryka was handsomely sung and acted by Thomas Johannes Mayer whose notable and urgent recitative \u2018Halt! Du irgendeiner oder wer du bist!\u2019 (\u2018Stop! You, anyone, or whoever you are\u2019) suitably ended the second act. ..<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conductor<\/td>\nSir Donald Runnicles <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director<\/td>\nTobias Kratzer <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Set-design, Costume-design<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Rainer Sellmaier <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Costume assistant<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Clara Luisa Hertel <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Choreographer<\/td>\nJeroen Verbruggen <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Light-design<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Stefan Woinke<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Video<\/td>\nManuel Braun, Jonas Dahl<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Chorus Director<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Jeremy Bines <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dramaturgy<\/td>\nBettina Bartz, J\u00f6rg K\u00f6nigsdorf <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graf Waldner<\/td>\nAlbert Pesendorfer <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adelaide<\/td>\nDoris Soffel <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arabella<\/td>\nJennifer Davis<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zdenka<\/td>\nHeidi Stober <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mandryka<\/td>\nThomas Johannes Mayer <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matteo<\/td>\nDaniel O’Hearn <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graf Elemer:<\/td>\nThomas Cilluffo <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graf Dominik<\/td>\nKyle Miller <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graf Lamoral<\/td>\nGerard Farreras <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Die Fiakermilli<\/td>\nHye-Young Moon <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Eine Kartenaufschl\u00e4gerin<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Martina Baroni <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Welko<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
J\u00f6rg Sch\u00f6rner <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Djura<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Michael Jamak <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jankel<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Robert Hebenstreit <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ein Zimmerkellner<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Heiner Bo\u00dfmeyer <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Live-Kamera<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Silke Briel, Lea Hopp, Janic Bebi <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Performances on 7, 15 and 20 March 2025 Here are the most relevant quotes from reviews in the German and international press.This selection does not claim to be complete. ConcertoNet by Ossama el Naggar The apotheosis of Zdenko …German bass-baritone Thomas Johannes Mayer was splendidly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[610,636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-thomas-j-mayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108367,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108362\/revisions\/108367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agentur-seifert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}