By Neco Verbis-

Munich, 2/8/2015 –

Gaetano Donizetti away in Germany is not nothing…The Bayerische Staatsoper by Munich, day February 8, 2015He took room Lucia di Lammermoor.

With all the trappings, the Germans tried to put on as it should be an Italian operona Bel Canto…But they had to deal with yourself: this time a Director out of place, albeit not so shocking, did it too.

The young Director Barbara Wysocka has seen fit to set the affair, originally the whole Scottish mist and corruschi romantic, flashes in Anni ' 50/' 60 of the last century, in United StatesSince, by his own admission in interview "the Kennedy era" It was the last time in which the story could keep postponing their credibility.

But one wonders whether it is obbligatorio, now, move the clock ever! What is the reason that should compel a postergarne the setting? Allow themselves to be Lucia, Edgardo and everyone else at brume fascinating of memory Scottiana Heath! Means giving dell’obsolete the masterpiece and that no one should allow it or afford it, in the name of nothing!

Definitely out of time and out of place, so appeared a Lucia with shots from teenagers, a Edgardo in extra long macchinona, stunt James Dean, a brother Enrico politician and power of small town America…a Raimondo Catholic priest in clerical dress that no one knows what he was doing in that context…May not understand how decay all together della sublime concezione teatrale donizettiana? Insomma, a will that has affected the nature and actions of the protagonists and even their speech yield.

In fact the Conductor Kirill Petrenko He gave a hand to directing, making interpretation Dynamics absolutely cold and impersonal, no time nor place, without color, a scan times from the syllabary even for singers at times, both while maintaining the domain on’great orchestra tedesca. sort of squaring the circle, reduction in marcetta and then race to the final, which spared not to overwhelm the most exciting moments of the opera, passed without infamy and without praise.

On stage, a Lucia hysterical certifiable, a Enrico brother master in suits, a Edgardo Maybe he found himself only to the last act, finally making shoot the scene that gun that from the beginning ran from hand to hand and which, in the anonymity of silence, supposedly killed Arturo shortly before.

Yet Diana Damrau He has a great voice…Albeit stretched at times, even adopting sometimes winds and cadences at least "unusual", has been on the rise over the course of the work. It could have been a Lucia for surveying. All shots, instead, forced by the direction not only to hold the gun, but to move from protagonist in the scene of madness as a starlette singing to the microphone…

But what you try to dig into a masterpiece as Lucia? You should try the transcendence, not hypothetical social-political connotation! And then, in the name of Philology the much-vaunted Bel Cantor, do you accompany the protagonist (sum refinement contradictory!), always in the scene of madness, from glass harmonicalike an event! It is indeed, now it is rare to hear a Lucia flauta on glass harmonica: the tool produces, in fusion with the voice, sounds arcane, transcendent…but in that context-weight scrap with Lucia directorial marriage certificate, you put in your mouth pieces and spit it out, what was there to make the glass harmonica willed by divine Donizetti? Indeed, it was counterproductive: better would have been a good and well more modern flute.

In short: a pity, since the voices, though not particularly brilliant, Pavol Breslik, Edgardo debuting in the role, and Dalibor Jenis in the role of Enrico Ashton they were respectable. The same applies to the Raymond of Georg Zeppenfeld... While Raphael Davis, relegated in the role of Arturo, left a magnificent legacy just regret Edgardo to Bellini in Catania in 2014.

Obviously this was all contained in set design shabby and broken by Barbara Kranss_tiki, which resembled a lot a work of German art exhibited at Venice Biennale the mid-late ' 90.

The source, ambientazione del primo atto, stava dipinta in un quadro poi preso a calci dalla protagonista, Edgardo He entered drive No one knows how or why the glass door, going so far as to Soarin', a backdrop in an incident that did just as much "rebel".

Costumes by Julia Kornacka appropriate, of course, as well as Rainer lights Casper. New production of The Bavarian State Opera.

Since then, in the wedding scene, has arrived to make dance the twist to the choir (monotonous) almost in time with the orchestra, we conclude that the Director It must be really a girl of character! Honour for merit, then: This is all a Monk in his creation.

 

Neco Verbis

 

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