Review of "Pierrot Lunaire"


Musicologist Kristel Pappel writes of her impressions from "Pierrot Lunaire in the fresh issue of monthly classical music magazine "Muusika"  giving the production an excellent review:
Nurms succeeded splendidly in walking on the edge of different eras - images and colors referring to 20th century cubism and Art Nouveau with contemporary refined, playful fashion design, all united under the term "stylization"
Muusika - May 2018
Some excerpts from the review can be found here:

"Stage director and designer Madis Nurms created theatrical and mystical atmosphere in the Chamber Hall of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
On the triangular performance space were some white geometrical objects, from above hung triangles and rhombs, which were colored according to directors light plan (lighting Anton Kulagin). A moon wrapped in the gray clouds and with the facial features of Kuchukova flickered from time to time as a video projection on the background."


"Nurms succeeded splendidly in walking on the edge of different eras - images and colors referring to 20th century cubism and Art Nouveau with contemporary refined, playful fashion design, all united under the term "stylization"
"Such a successful production- and musical entity should definitely be performed again"
"The Chamber Hall was crowded with audience, the reception was very warm and enthusiastic. At the end of the show we see a historical photograph of Schoenberg in a striped swimsuit who, together with a butterfly added by the director, disappears from our sight. But he will come again, since  Schoenberg’s "Pierrot Lunaire" has now finally arrived to us."


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