Name: A Gentle Spirit The Bear
Start: 2023-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Altenburg Gera

Organization

Conductor

Ruben Gazarian

Stage director

Kay Kuntze

Set designer

Benita Roth

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Sophie Jira

Singer

Miriam Zubieta

Girl

Isaac Lee

Baritone

John Beck

Grigory

Mezzo-soprano

Kristin E Mäntylä

Yelena

Eva-Maria Wurlitzer

Bass-baritone

Kai Wefer

Lukas

Lili Wiesner

Girl Double

Theater Altenburg Gera

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Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera

engelsk

A Gentle Spirit / The Bear

Gera

Germany

Gera, Grosses Haus

Altenburg

Theaterzelt

A Gentle Spirit Tavener (+1 More)

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A Gentle Spirit

The Bear

tysk

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„Watching from beyond the grave, he will see me just as I was before he died ...“
(From the grave he will see me exactly as I was before he died...)
Popowa (The Bear)

Two 20th-century English composers bring together two 19th-century Russian writers to create two operas that tell the story of two marriages separated by death. On this double evening, memories are rolled up once in the tragic, once in the comic.

John Tavener (1944-2013), best known for his sacred compositions, created the chamber opera A Gentle Spirit (1977) in the year he joined the Russian Orthodox Church, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's story The Gentle. A young woman who married out of necessity and threw herself out of the window with an icon in her hands lies dead in front of her husband. In flashbacks, which again and again lead to the image of the defenestration, the widower lives through moments of marriage together in order to understand what drove his wife to commit suicide.

called "Extravaganza", The Bear is based on Anton Chekhov's vaudeville one-act play of the same name. Popova, a landowner's widow, enjoys the role of the grieving wife who remains faithful beyond death until a creditor of her husband shows up to collect his debts. With a lot of musical humor, the deceased is revealed as a bon vivant and the uninvited guest turns into an opponent in a crazy duel scene.

English

„Watching from beyond the grave, he will see me just as I was before he died ...“
(Vom Grab aus wird er mich genau so sehen, wie ich war, bevor er starb ...)
Popowa (The Bear)

Zwei englische Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts ziehen zwei russische Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts heran, um in zwei Opern von zwei Ehen zu erzählen, die der Tod geschieden hat. Erinnerungen werden an diesem Doppelabend einmal im Tragischen, einmal im Komischen aufgerollt. 

John Tavener (1944-2013), vor allem für seine geistlichen Kompositionen bekannt, schafft im Jahr seines Beitritts zur russisch-orthodoxen Kirche die Kammeroper A Gentle Spirit (1977), der Fjodor Dostojewskis Erzählung Die Sanfte zugrunde liegt. Eine junge Frau, die aus Not geheiratet und sich mit einer Ikone in Händen aus dem Fenster gestürzt hat, liegt tot vor ihrem Ehemann. In Rückblenden, die immer wieder in das Bild des Fenstersturzes münden, durchlebt der Witwer gemeinsame Momente der Ehe, um zu begreifen, was seine Frau in den Selbstmord trieb. 

William Waltons (1902-1983) „Extravaganza“ genannte Kammeroper The Bear (1967) basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Vaudeville-Einakter von Anton Tschechow. Popowa, die Witwe eines Gutsbesitzers, gefällt sich in der Rolle der trauernden, über den Tod hinaus treuen Ehefrau, bis ein Gläubiger ihres Gatten aufkreuzt, um dessen Schulden einzutreiben. Mit viel musikalischem Humor wird der Verblichene als Lebemann enthüllt und der ungebetene Gast gerät zum Gegner in einer aberwitzigen Duellszene.

Deutsch

A Gentle Spirit / The Bear by Tavener, Walton, søn. 09 juli 2023, Fra (2023/2023), Instrueret af Kay Kuntze,, Dirigent Ruben Gazarian, Theater Altenburg Gera, Gera, Germany

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