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Wien – A spell is in the air. And it’s not the fairy tale alone. As the Vienna-Oh!pera orchestra plays under the baton of the Brazilian conductor, Vinicius Kattah, the first bars of the Opera “Cinderella”, many think of a number: Eleven!
Eleven years, the British composer, Alma Deutscher-old, who has turned the fairy tale of Cinderella by the brothers Grimm in a two and a half hour Opera. 237 pages includes the score. More than 20 scenes has thought of this before as a child Prodigy, described the girl’s part to tell the love story between the unassuming Cinderella and the Prince.
Baumgarten The 300 spectators in the Casino, a cultural center on the outskirts of Vienna, were delighted on Thursday evening by the German-speaking premiere. German, the fly and the melodies are just so, as she says herself, has found very catchy and well-composed musical motifs, partly cheerful, partly dramatic, partly elegiac. The patronage over the event in the music city of Vienna had taken over the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta.
In the red dress enters Alma yourself this evening, accompanied barefoot on the violin playing your alter Ego is Cinderella (Theresa Krügl). In Deutscher’s version of Cinderella is, how, a composer. The evil step-mother (Catarina Coresi) and their two rather laughable as the evil daughters Zibaldona and Griselda singers are stupid in an Opera house. The only founded in 2014 and operas, specialized Oh!the pera Ensemble was awarded for the cooperation with a German. The choice of the place met the eleven-year-old: “you have to like the red curtains in the room as well,” Oh!pera spokeswoman.
The 29-year-old Bonner Director and Tenor Dominik On ten Hoff-Söns has made the Plight of a extremely small stage of only about 40 square meters, is a virtue, and uses a lot of Video feeds for rapid and noise-free scene changes. The whole ambience is more like a stucco magnificent school hall as a hall for great musical theatre. “It is the first Time since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a child again has brought an Opera to paper,” writes the Director in the program.
German accompanied “their” artists banned also looks at the piano, and deeply focused on the action on stage. In the Pause she gives numerous autographs. Already at the age of six the first piano Sonata was written, with seven of a twelve-minute Mini-Opera for four singers and a string ensemble. “Cinderella” was performed in a chamber Version in Israel, was edited for Vienna, but in a completely new and complements.
Alma has it is disturbed by his own admission, that in the Cinderella fairy tale, a lost Shoe plays a Central role. At the perfect fit of the Shoe is identified in the case of the brothers Grimm the from the Ball the Prince ran, the girls later. Not so with Alma: the Prince is a Poet. One of his poems set to music – about detours to the Text of the coming – Cinderella. At the Ball, you can sing it to him before she escapes.
The Prince searches throughout the Land to those who can complete the song line. “You step into the cold…” at the Very end, he comes to the Opera house, the evil stepmother in the Cinderella to the attic is locked. As he does, closes the circle: “…Dark and sinks into black snow.” And if you are not dead, they still live today.
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