As they picked up once again making an appearance, the self-appointed General – Muse of the early 20th century. Century, the once most beautiful girl in Vienna, the enervating Alma Schindler. As pompous as enthusiastic you will accept in a Salon piano lessons from a “cartoon”, which she describes in her diary as “very ugly”. Her small, kinnlos-link teacher, the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. From the vain disgust of the young woman, is short-circuited with a lecherous cult of Genius, develops a eruptive Liaison. To Zemlinsky for the benefit of the next half-repulsive, half by desert art erotic inflated relationship assign is allowed to submit Gustav Mahler is already waiting.
At the German Opera, Zemlinsky’s 1922 uraufgeführtem one-act Opera “The dwarf is biased” a prologue, of Alma and Alexander forces back to the wing. The orchestra plays Japanese to Arnold Schoenberg’s “accompaniment music to a film scene”, ten minutes to serve, the exposure – musical, playwright. Teacher and student flatter yourself, grasping here and there in the keys, rings, otherwise, soon fainting. The delicate Zemlinsky (Evgeny Nikiforov) is deeply scared of the prospect of the heaving woman in old rose (played by Adelle Eslinger, wife of General music Director Donald Runnicles) wanted to approach him, he gasps for air. The flirtatious schoolgirl switches at some point on contempt, the artistic potency of the teacher seems to irritate you all of a sudden. From the mantel of Beethoven’s bust looks a little grim, the Goings-on. Danger looms, fear, catastrophe – this excitation line follows Schoenberg’s composition, which is sprung over to the spirit of silent film, with clothes but have nothing on the hat. But much more of this foreplay with big Alma-boost. The scene rumbles even at your removal.
After 90 minutes it’s all over
so Why at all of this right crude artifice? “The dwarf” is not a classic evening-length work, at the same time, it is difficult to set him up. The Comic Opera had in 2002 just a little Fortune with a Zemlinsky double-team, including the “Florentine tragedy”. With Schoenberg, the pupil and later brother-in-law Zemlinsky, after all, jump break loose three-quarter hours, at the end everything is up to 90 minutes. Alma, often enough, as grandfather’s It Girl, resurrected, appears to the viewer in “The dwarf” inevitably leads to the beautiful Infanta Clara that finally the gifts to your 18. Birthday want to open. It celebrates in a bright-white concert hall that must be for you and your selfie-addicted Friends in the monotonous place in the world. In the small-sized, the is your offered by the Sultan, has pitied the 1,59 meters large Zemlinsky itself and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde in glistening sounds cast: A beautiful soul, ignorant of its outer form, holds the ridicule of the court for the kindness and cruel games of love. His heart breaks when he realizes his true form. Previously, Donna Clara, still has him as an Alma – set to cut the ears: “I love you out of pity and disgust.”
Only a little time and a short excerpt of the drama Tobias scratches remain, to tell his story. The Director, Born in 1980, just about to leap on the great Opera stages, in the summer, he should give the Bayreuth festival a new “Tannhäuser”. His cool style, he sees as a counterpart to the Overabundance of Zemlinsky’s music. Scratches handled too lightly with what is to us almost sacred: A tried Bambule rocked the concert hall, distorted, musicians zerkloppen their instruments in an Aggro attack, and composer pushed to be busts abound of their sockets – but you don’t shatter theatrical, but remain like giant chewing gum mountains, just sticky. Culture appears as a kind of gross, boring you anyway. The dwarf-self, the Director doubles with the Tenor David Butt Philip and the small actors in the Mick Morris Mehnert. Clara knows where they should look. From this, you would have been able to strike sparks, but, unfortunately, this male artist is not lit-double image really. It remains as all-in-one bowls interpretation, when you know beforehand what time is the pink balloon has to burst. The Bad thing is that it also comes exactly.
symbiosis of soul and sensuality
And more simply doesn’t exist. Hope it lives up to the last stroke, as in the trench Music Director Runnicles stands in front of his orchestra. The Scotsman, in the summer of ten years in the house, is one of the Pragmatists on the console, the know exactly what you can get from a score. In the case of Zemlinsky but his instinct fails him. To even safe and sound to this music that flourishes only in case of doubt, and again and again, to save the beauty and the fragility of the truth in it. sounds The night music approaches a symbiosis of soul and sensuality, designs iridescent counter-worlds, searches for basic trust. These dimensions you have to think in the broad brush applied late romance, the one thing seems to be so especially much to late. The catastrophic establishment of the women’s choir on the organ loft of the scratch concert hall. So there is neither coordination nor sound framework, the appearance is audibly swallowed completely.
member of the ensemble Elena Tsallagova as Donna Clara, however, a ray of light in this production. Rather unconcerned with rhetorical sharpness, she develops without embarrassment, the picture of a fate-drenched, but not completely unchallenged young woman. Her David Butt Philips as the lead singer of the dwarf game responds to the lush orchestra of noise with a lot of young people. Including the fascination should come from the lyrical and sensitive title character, however, suffers. The British Tenor sounds like he got stapled to the eyes fixed on upcoming hero roles on the horizon. A dwarf to overlook as easily.
At the end of a Director scratch is visibly surprised at the lush premiere of applause. Also Zemlinsky would be surprised. Only Alma. Why, too. Finally, it has turned once again everything around you.
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