Basel's "Licht" is performance of the year
Stockhausen's "Donnerstag" from "Licht" at Theater Basel has been voted performance of the year by 50 critics from Europe and the USA. Anna Viebrock is best stage and costume designer, among other things with the set design for Rossini's "Viaggio a Reims" in Zurich.
In addition to the critics, "Opernwelt" also asked readers for their favorites for the first time. They also voted Verdi's "Macbeth" in Zurich (Teodor Currentzis/Barrie Kosky) as the Swiss production of the year.
There was unanimity when it came to "Director of the Year": the readers also awarded the title to Barrie Kosky - above all, but not only, for his Zurich "Macbeth" with Teodor Currentzis, the most important performance in their view.
The voices on the annoyance of the season are widely scattered. The Green Hill as a "stadium of intrigue" and the "Bayreuth regiment" of Katharina Wagner and Christian Thielemann are mentioned several times by readers and critics. However, readers were most annoyed by the delays in the restructuring of the Cologne Opera and Augsburg Theatre.
For more than twenty years, the Berlin-based music theater magazine "Opernwelt" has conducted an annual critics' survey to identify the best opera houses, productions, singers, directors, choirs and so on for the past season.
