{"id":15033,"date":"2026-10-27T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:54:08","slug":"basel-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/en\/basel-west-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lets-info-up-wrap  lets-info-up--right lets-info-up--m-1 lets-info-up-skin-3 lets-info-up--side lets-info-up-66483\" style=\"background:#fafafa; color: #616161\">\t\t\t<div class=\"lets-info-up\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"lets-info-up-fi\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-500x333.png\" class=\"attachment-lets-info-up-d1 size-lets-info-up-d1\" alt=\"|\" 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alt=\"|\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-883x589.png 883w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-360x240.png 360w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-1155x770.png 1155w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-770x513.png 770w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-293x195.png 293w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder-390x260.png 390w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/qi-addons-for-elementor-placeholder.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"lets-info-up-block-wrap\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lets-info-up-block lets-info-up-meta-block\"><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-title lets-info-up-pretitle font-h\" style=\"color: #8c6d18;\">Venue<\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-content lets-info-up-title font-b\">Theater Basel<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-block lets-info-up-meta-block\"><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-title lets-info-up-pretitle font-h\" style=\"color: #8c6d18;\">by<\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-content lets-info-up-title font-b\">Leonard Bernstein (Musik)<br>Arthur Laurents (Book)<br>Stephen Sondheim (Liedtexte)<br>Frank Thannh\u00e4user und Nico Rabenald (Deutsche Fassung)<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-block lets-info-up-meta-block\"><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-title lets-info-up-pretitle font-h\" style=\"color: #8c6d18;\">Direction<\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-content lets-info-up-title font-b\">Barrie Kosky und Otto Pichler<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-block lets-info-up-meta-block\"><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-title lets-info-up-pretitle font-h\" style=\"color: #8c6d18;\">World premiere<\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-content lets-info-up-title font-b\">1957<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-block lets-info-up-meta-block\"><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-title lets-info-up-pretitle font-h\" style=\"color: #8c6d18;\">Info<\/div><div class=\"lets-info-up-meta-content lets-info-up-title font-b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-basel.ch\/de\/westsidestory\" data-type=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">www.theater-basel.ch<\/a><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Weniger B\u00fchne, mehr Emotion: Die \u201eWest Side Story\u201c \u00fcberzeugt auf ganzer Linie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was Barrie Kosky und Otto Pichler mit ihrer bereits 2013 an der Komischen Oper Berlin entstandenen Inszenierung von Leonard Bernsteins \u201eWest Side Story\u201c geschaffen haben, ist schlicht genial. Unter der szenischen Leitung von Tamara Heimbrock wird die Basler Neueinstudierung zu einem packenden Theatererlebnis von au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlicher Intensit\u00e4t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kosky reduziert das B\u00fchnenbild radikal: ein schwarzer Raum, je eine Leiter links und rechts und eine Drehb\u00fchne, deren wei\u00dfe Linien ein Basketballfeld andeuten. Dieser bewusste Verzicht macht Raum und Zeit beliebig, verleiht der Geschichte Aktualit\u00e4t und \u00fcberl\u00e4sst die Verortung dem Publikum. Die Grenzen zwischen B\u00fchne und Zuschauerraum verschwimmen, was die Inszenierung pers\u00f6nlicher, emotionaler und intensiver macht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immer wieder entstehen ausdrucksstarke Szenen: Beim Tanz im Gym schweben unz\u00e4hlige Discokugeln herab, w\u00e4hrend die Gangs mit grellbunten Masken die einzigen Farbakzente setzen. Danach verteilt sich das Ensemble auf der rotierenden B\u00fchne und verschwindet nach und nach wie durch Zentrifugalkraft, bis nur noch Tony und Maria im Zentrum stehen. Eine ebenso geniale wie ber\u00fchrende Inszenierung ihrer ersten Begegnung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ein schwarzer Szenenvorhang erm\u00f6glicht weitere Verwandlungen; f\u00fcr die Balkonszene entsteht auf einer erh\u00f6hten Metalltraverse ein neuer Spielort. Franck Evins Lichtdesign \u00fcbernimmt eine zentrale Rolle. Monochrom, aber mit wechselnden Lichttemperaturen, scharf gesetzten Kegeln und raumf\u00fcllenden Lichtformationen entstehen unterschiedliche Stimmungen. Bei der Polizeiverfolgung durchdringen Schweinwerfer und Sirenen B\u00fchne und Zuschauerraum. Bei der Balkonszene entfaltet sich im Hintergrund ein zauberhafter Sternenhimmel \u2013 das Licht wird zum eigenst\u00e4ndigen Erz\u00e4hler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicht minder raffiniert sind Otto Pichlers Choreografien, in Basel von Silvano Marraffa einstudiert. Bodensequenzen, pr\u00e4gnante Arm- und Kopfbewegungen, abrupte Staccato-Akzente und flie\u00dfende Passagen verschmelzen zu ausdrucksstarkem Tanztheater. Perfekt synchron sind sie am Premierenabend noch nicht \u00fcberall, der t\u00e4nzerischen Wucht und Vielfalt aber schadet das in keinster Weise. Besonders Bart Aerts als Riff und Kyra Sorce als Anita vollbringen k\u00f6rperliche H\u00f6chstleistungen. 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https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08_copyright_ingo_hoehn_westsidestory_ensemble-752x501.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08_copyright_ingo_hoehn_westsidestory_ensemble-1137x758.jpg 1137w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08_copyright_ingo_hoehn_westsidestory_ensemble-275x183.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.musical-today.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08_copyright_ingo_hoehn_westsidestory_ensemble-1382x921.jpg 1382w\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Foto: Ingo H\u00f6hn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eine derart reduzierte Inszenierung kann nur mit einem au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlich starken Ensemble funktionieren. Genau das bietet Basel. Allen voran brilliert Samantha Hargreaves als Maria mit makelloser Sopranstimme, beeindruckender dynamischer Bandbreite und einer darstellerischen Intensit\u00e4t, die unter die Haut geht. Jan-Philipp Rekeszus verk\u00f6rpert Tony als Lichtgestalt, auch optisch hervorgehoben durch sein helles Hemd. Sein ausdrucksstarker Gesang und die B\u00fchnenpr\u00e4senz \u00fcberzeugen auf ganzer Linie. Beide haben ihre Figuren im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes verinnerlicht. Steven Armin Novak zeichnet Actions Entwicklung \u00fcberzeugend nach, w\u00e4hrend Klaus Br\u00f6mmelmeier als Doc mit eindringlicher Pr\u00e4senz Akzente setzt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thibaut Welchlins \u00fcberwiegend dunkle, vielseitige Kost\u00fcme charakterisieren die Gangs: T\u00e4towierte Sharks treffen auf Jets in Hoodies und Sportkleidung. Yumio Chanoki verleiht der sympathischen Anybodys eine sympathische Pr\u00e4senz und setzt mit ihrem dunkelvioletten Kost\u00fcm einen farblichen Kontrapunkt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Das Sinfonieorchester Basel unter Leitung von Thomas Wise verwandelt Bernsteins Partitur in ein intensives Klangbad. Wise, der Leonard Bernstein w\u00e4hrend seiner Studienzeit in New York noch live erlebte, l\u00e4sst die vielschichtige Komposition in all ihren Facetten gl\u00e4nzen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diese \u201eWest Side Story\u201c z\u00e4hlt zu den eindr\u00fccklichsten Musicalinszenierungen, welche die Rezensentin bis dato auf Schweizer B\u00fchnen erleben konnte \u2013 ein raffiniertes Zusammenspiel von Regie, Tanz, Licht, Ensemble und Orchester, das bewegt und nachhallt. Ein Besuch in Basel lohnt sich unbedingt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Musikalische Leitung: Thomas Wise \u2022 Regie: Barrie Kosky und Otto Pichler \u2022 Szenische Leitung der Neueinstudierung: Tamara Heimbrock \u2022 Choreografie: Otto Pichler \u2022 Choreografische Leitung der Neueinstudierung: Silvano Marraffa \u2022 B\u00fchne: Barrie Kosky \u2022 Kost\u00fcme: Thibaut Welchlin \u2022 Licht: Franck Evin \u2022 Chorleitung: Michael Clark \u2022 Dramaturgie: Johanna Wall und Benjamin W\u00e4ntig \u2022 Mit: Jan-Philipp Rekeszus (Tony), Samantha Hargreaves (Maria), Kyra Sorce (Anita), Bart Aerts (Riff), M\u00e1t\u00e9 Gyenei (Bernardo), Alessio Urzetta (Chino), Steven Armin Novak (Action), Salvatore Marchione (A-Rab), Alexander Hallas (Baby John), Giuseppe Bencivenga (Snowboy), Luca Boscolo (Big Deal), Shane Dickson (Diesel), Yumio Chanoki (Anybodys), Sophie Melem (Velma), Chiara Viscido (Graziella), Eileen Sally Nef (Rosalia), Alice Piccirilli (Teresita), Alicia Lehmann (Margarita), Nina Walker (Estella), Alina Mettler (Francisca), Romy Neumann (Consuelo), Alessio Marchini (Pepe), Matteo Mersi (Indio), Dario Rigaglia (Luis), Duncan W. 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