Culture
Parsifal hammam
From Jörn Florian Fuchs
In the Bayreuth Wagner Festival opened without pomp. The eingesprungene Conductor Hartmut Haenchen convinced Uwe Eric Laufenberg Bergs director remains enigmatic
Somehow the Princess arg frustrated. Hardly anyone noticed, the red carpet was whether the school shooting in Munich abolished, the flashbulbs of the photographers Party has its limits. Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis wearing an evening dress with a huge bow on the chest, to chose a veritable nerd glasses. In the festival newspaper distributed immediately after the premiere pop singer Roberto Blanco Richard Wagner attests a high degree of complexity, while Katharina Wagner – as we heard -. The performance of the new “Parsifal” not on site, but experienced in a Munich cinema
After the premiere was then in the city’s restaurants still really busy because Horst Seehofer had also canceled the state reception in the new Palace shortly – except Culture Minister Monika Grütters remained the entire Munich and Berlin cabinet’s happening remote. On security concerns could not have been, since one was checked three times usually when entering the Festspielhaus. The threat “No bottles in the auditorium” (pretty motto) proved to be not quite so bad because at least plastic containers were allowed, in view of the new items tropical temperatures in the hall a simple (survival) need.
hot it went to on stage. Uwe Eric Laufenberg laid the piece in a dilapidated convent in the Middle or Middle East. There holed a radical Christian sect and indulges bloody rituals. Members carve their leader Amfortas and feed drastically from its lifeblood.
Klingsor collects crosses with and without Jesus figurine
The breakaway Klingsor lodges meanwhile a stick over it and has his barren apartment equipped with all kinds of devotional, namely crosses with and without Jesus figure. However, he has an army sugary Women grown that occur like veiled, wearing underneath, however, pretty swimsuit. In the second act they want to seduce Parsifal in hammam what (tee true) does not succeed. Kundry is a salon lady in glitter dress, roll Debutante Elena Pankratova plays and sings enchantingly, but also their courting of the Savior gates is unsuccessful. Klaus Florian Vogt embodied Parsifal and therefore everything is normally said. It would have words like “balsamic timbre” or “effortlessly flowing arches” fall and everyone knows:. Everything again in perfect order
Unfortunately, far from it. Why was it always, Vogt disappointed by a lack of understanding of the text (especially in the first act) and often imprecise intonation. Some sounds more spoken than sung. His “mentor”, Gralshüter Gurnemanz, however, is the voice of this production. Georg Zeppenfeld shines with perfect phrasing and untroubled, rich sonority. Ryan McKinnys Amfortas and Karl-Heinz Lehner Titurel deliver solid roll portraits, Gerd Grochowskis Klingsor acts vocal and scenic a bit too harmless. The rehearsed by Eberhard Friedrich choirs stay this time – as well as the flower girl -. A little under hard playing level
Uwe Eric Laufenberg Bergs basic idea is a coup, he also succeed some strong images. At the end of the desert blooms, plants grow in the meantime dilapidated church, prancing under heavy rain and loll half or fully naked girls. The problem, however affects the unclear anchor of the whole, because there are also from time to time in snowing soldiers that are now jihadists or irregulars or mercenaries? And on which side or which side they stand? During the first Verwandlungsmusik makes a space-Video, which is as cosmic as funny. The second transformation appear old, blurry countenance of Kundry and Gurnemanz and the death mask of Richard Wagner. What shoud that? Also in the management of people is the weak point repeatedly. Stark is the final, as in Patrice Chéreau’s “Götterdämmerung” there is a company of the here and now, slowly leaves the stage, the room opens, mist wafts, then the hall light goes on. Of course, you have now seen something like often.
Conductor Hartmut Haenchen brings its concept through
There were out of the ditch quite Novel and truly phenomenal to hear. Hartmut Haenchen, the ultra-short-term stand-in for the departed frustrated by Christian Thielemann’s constant interventions Andris Nelsons, expressed the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra on its mark. Quickly it going, Haenchens sound dramaturgy reminiscent in terms of transparency, accuracy and dynamics of Pierre Boulez, but you can hear great, fiber-rich pomp. there wobbler well due to lack of rehearsal time. Care should be Haenchen in the next few years necessarily continue to work!
And Laufenberg would focus even many, emphasize another. A riddle for which no one had a solution that was towering over the stage action figure, the times in the semi-darkness remained in the first two elevators, was once illuminated. Some said that if it were (a) God who unemotionally consider the events from a distance, others believed it might Christian Thielemann, who look after things. The truth is exactly the same in the middle …
No comments:
Post a Comment