Review: 'Doppelgänger' at the Park Avenue Armory
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann shines in this strikingly reimagined Schubert theater piece by Claus Guth
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The tenor Jonas Kaufmann shines in this strikingly reimagined Schubert theater piece by Claus Guth
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Finally recovered from a string of illness, tenor Jonas Kaufmann rose from one of 62 neatly ordered hospital beds at the Park Avenue Armory to perform a collection of Schubert songs in “Doppleganger.” For 80 solid minutes, the spotlight shone on Kaufmann, whose voice was in fine form as he portrayed a wounded World War I soldier. Surrounded by beds sat Helmut Deutsch’s Steinway in director Claus Guth’s New York debut.
Another year, another Met season without Jonas Kaufmann. Sigh. What’s a music lover to do? His current set of performances is at the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall--in a staged production by Claud Guth, commissioned by the Armory, of Schubert lieder, under the title DOPPELGANGER, an evening of autumnal chill through words and music that were “anxious and heavy,” through a heart “utterly alone.”