Profilbewertungen
1Stefan Vinke is an irrepressible Siegfried who bounces onto the stage and whose voice is unequalled in its comfort at sustained high tessitura, even when wound up to full power. I don’t think there’s another tenor in the world who can hit the levels Vinke does and make it sound so casual: his encounter with the Rhinemaidens, in which Siegfried narrowly misses saving the world without having any idea what he’s doing, was acted hugely entertainingly as well as sounding wonderful in its blend of voices.
Frühere Produktionsrezensionen
4To stage a successful production of Strauss’ “Elektra” is a monumental feat all its own, but to do it with such sophistication and finesse as the Metropolitan Opera’s Friday night performance is herculean." The complexity of the libretto and score are second to none in the operatic repertory. It was the first of several famed collaborations between Austrian librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of the founders of the Salzburg Festival, and one of the great champions of late romanticism and early modernism, Richard Strauss. The demands on the singers are staggering as they attempt to navigate the extremities of their instruments while both soaring above and piercing through one of opera’s most intricate and robust orchestral compositions
in this revival, you could home in even closer to just its two sisters, antipodal soprano roles sung by Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen with floodlight luminosity and painfully human sensitivity. Chéreau’s staging, which premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2013 before coming to the Met six years ago, doesn’t seem to have aged a day. And it’s difficult to imagine that happening soon with a placeless production that suits the timelessness Sophocles’ classic tragedy.
tage director Claus Guth focused on the passionate love story between the two, and highlighted its intimate facet by setting the action in a 19th century high-middle class apartment. Isolde wakes up in the morning in her bedroom to the nicely sung outside melody, and asks to see Tristan. The sets, designed by Christian Schmidt (who also took care of the costumes), featured a revolving structure that showed the elegantly furnished rooms of the apartment. In this way, the director was able to add some action to this otherwise quite static opera. Five hours has elapsed, and while part of the audience had left the house earlier, there were still enough spectators left to pay a big tribute of applause to all the cast members, who had accomplished the deed of bringing back Wagner’s masterpiece to Turin after a ten-year absence. And this was indeed deserved. For Maestro Gianandrea Noseda this was the first Tristan. The conductor prepared with great care for this debut, and worked out all the details with the orchestra of the Teatro Regio, which played with commitment and produced a compact, vibrant sound. The chorus, instructed by Claudio Fenoglio, contributed to the success of the performance.
Stefan Vinke is an irrepressible Siegfried who bounces onto the stage and whose voice is unequalled in its comfort at sustained high tessitura, even when wound up to full power. I don’t think there’s another tenor in the world who can hit the levels Vinke does and make it sound so casual: his encounter with the Rhinemaidens, in which Siegfried narrowly misses saving the world without having any idea what he’s doing, was acted hugely entertainingly as well as sounding wonderful in its blend of voices.
