Word: schneider-siemssen
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...PASSION OF JONATHAN WADE. One of the few masters of American opera (Susannah), Carlisle Floyd sets his tragedy in Columbia, S.C., just after the Civil War at the savage start of Reconstruction. Sets by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen. At the Houston Grand Opera...
...that they could be sold today as luxury condominiums. Eisenstein's residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes to grandeur, Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's magnum of a production has popped its cork...
...Conductor Herbert von Karajan, which began in 1967 with Die Walkure. Karajan had produced only half of the cycle when a labor dispute disrupted the 1969-70 season and he dropped out; the Ring was completed several years later by Director Wolfgang Weber. This current production, designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk, is being introduced over three seasons, and will be staged complete...
...phantasmagorical spirit of E.T.A. Hoffmann lurks everywhere in the Metropolitan Opera's brilliant new production of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), which opened last week. Vividly directed by Otto Schenk and imaginatively designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Hoffmann is the Met's most successful, satisfying effort in months. It is all the more welcome because the season, still somewhat colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle...
...workshop, is obviously a machine, and in a fine, broad comic touch, Director Schenk has the inventor's assistant twist each of her fingers to produce the dazzling coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy palazzi looming over dark canals whose waters hold untold secrets. The intensity deepens and comes to a climax in the third act: as in a horror movie, the normality of Antonia's surroundings only heightens the terror prescribed...