With his walking stick Karl Marx’s hurt the adversary, distributes it with the hands and feet of the stage. Now, the man with the beard, the Chance to win the prize money. His listeners in the London Pub, waiting anxiously. Marx has long been aware self-confident: Who else should, if not him, offer a plea on the virtues of communism? His bonus, he touches in Everything-is-all-fashion-only briefly, passes the Money directly to the crowd. Drinks for all!
The Opera “Marx in London” by Jonathan Dove focuses on the theories and writings of German philosophers and Economists, only twice really in the center. In addition to the Pubszene Marx from a work dream amount, which proclaims chanting a free world – that’s it. Instead, the Comedy of a fictional family day Marx that can go wrong, what is just possible told. The lovable poor schmuck Protagonist is a brilliant thinker, but he plunges the environment into Chaos. Due to unpaid debt is removed at the beginning of the furniture. Instead of writing, continues Karl dear, the affair with a housekeeper, who brought 18 years ago, even a common son to the world. It appears the prompt, and comes closer to Marx’s daughter for so long, until in Mozart’s Buffa style, to resolve all the tribulations and the half-siblings recognize. Marx needs the money desperately to calm his brought a completely law wife, which is of course not at all happy about the fact that he ummünzt the premium from the Pub in alcohol for the masses.
The music is pushing always forward
The work commissioned by the Opera Bonn in a triangle formation, from Director Jürgen R. Weber, the Librettist Charles Hart and Jonathan Dove. “Marx in London” is already the 29. Opera by the British, was known in Berlin, among other things, by “The Monster in the Maze”, premiered in 2015 of the Berliner Philharmoniker. The staging, the music and the Libretto are closely intertwined, developing Tempo. Three parallel plot interwoven are the strands of the above, always something is happening on the stage. This is also due to the flexible-Scenes and detail-oriented facilities by Hank Irwin Kittel. Each Element can not be used with a handle taken off-stage, on rollers. And the foundations of Marx’s living room is an early industrial Railways.
The high speed feeds from the fantastic Libretto. With little word jokes, and the core reduced dialogues dashes Charles Hart through the story. Marx’s counterparty in the Pubszene, the Italian Melanzane, elaborated as extravagant with aimless coloratura, that he turns out to be immediately as am rambling on of jugglers. With the contrast to the otherwise so dense word-tone-relation Dove caricatured at the same time, sweeping tenor roles in the history of music. His music is a constant Pulse is to be characterized, changes walking bass plucked similarly, changes in the fanned out the sound of the whole orchestra. Stylistically, it oscillates between Minimal Music, atmospheric soundscapes and an almost operetta-sections. The music urges always to the front, fades to a scene in the other, shifting moods in moments. In addition, Dove has written for each character a different sound color. Marx often accompany rich brass, the wealthy Friedrich Engels, noble Savior at the end, shining in a bright C major.
Something bad, that jokes are only rarely to real laughter, because the performers to the last ounce of Comedy is missing. Vocally but they are convincing: Mark Morouse sings with a rich baritone in the title role, Yannick-Muriel Noah, gripping and dramatically ripped his wife Jenny. In C-major by Engels to John Mertes, who also has the volume to stand against the of David Parry conducted the Beethoven orchestra wallowing vocally radiant. The drowned out, although the singer, but at least with many strong facets.
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200. The birthday of Karl Marx On the Pedestal and down again
Christiane Peitz
Back at 12., 20. January and 2., 8., 14. February 2019, www.theater-bonn.de
