Die Schönen Musiktheater / Reseñas

"Operetta sich wer kann" plays with the absurdity of the operetta and unreservedly presents the elevated nonsense and cheeky suggestiveness it contains. In this way, the operetta becomes what it originally was: a vital and revitalizing art form that comments on the state of the world with smug lightness – yesterday as well as today. In the proven and well-known handwriting of the "beautiful" a game with the light muse unfolds. Without false shame, the soul of the operetta is taken and placed in a new, bouncy body. The songs and scenes are served by three charming young musicians. Katrin Mayer (soprano), Rubén Olivares (tenor) and Max Langer (piano) go on a musical journey between Waikiki, Berlin, Vienna and Varazdin with heartbreak, wit, irony and kitsch. Klaus Gülker, long-standing editor-in-chief for entertainment at SWR Studio Freiburg, will be there as a charming and quick-witted operetta guide. Lean back and let your imagination soar to the various locations. Enjoy the wonderful music! And give yourself up to great feelings and laughter.

Gilead Mishory manages the unbelievable in Leopold Kern's and Martin Schurr's incredibly dense staging, which is not just aimed at flat laughter: the Freiburg piano professor and composer merges with the figure of Cosme, becoming his living blueprint. It is probably no coincidence that one thinks of Woody Allen - Mishory virtuously plays the piano neurotic, who in the course of the event becomes Madame Flos' psychiatrist. (...) Only once did he freak out when she commented on their joint recording: "One thing is certain - the piano is dragging." One would like to hug Kathryn Magestro at this moment - so wonderfully innocent, naively she expresses this conviction. The veritable opera singer studied Madame Flo's recordings down to the smallest detail - every wrong note, every rhythmic inaccuracy is perfect. You have to be able to sing so well wrong first! Especially in the second part, which (...) “documents” the fiasco of the Carnegie Hall concert, you can almost experience Foster's The Best Of dance series.