Name: Capriccio
Start: 2022-07-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Prinzregententheater

Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Cantante

Soprano

Diana Damrau

La Contessa Madeleine

Baritono

Michael Nagy

Il Conte

Tenore

Pavol Breslik

Flamand

Vito Priante

Olivier

Basso

Kristinn Sigmundsson

La Roche

Regia

David Marton

Direzione d'orchestra

Lothar Koenigs

Luci

Henning Streck

Costumi

Pola Kardum

Scenografia

Christian Friedländer

Drammaturgia

Barbara Engelhardt

Katja Leclerc

Contralto

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Clairon

Deanna Breiwick

Una cantante italiana

Galeano Salas

Un cantante italiano

Christian Oldenburg

Il maggiordomo

Paul Kmetsch

Otto servitori

Dimitrios Karolidis

Leonhard Geiger

Hans Porten

Robin Neck

Christian Wilms

Leopold Bier

Gabriel Fortunas

Toby Spence

Monsieur Taupe

Altro

Mimi

Anna Henseler

Una giovane ballerina

Zuzana Zahradníková

Ute Vermehr

Leo Hussain

Bayerische Staatsoper

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Capriccio

Monaco di Baviera

Germania

Prinzregententheater

Public

Private

Approvato

Who can claim primacy in the opera? The libretto or the music? Richard Strauss poses this centuries-old question of principle at the end of his creativity at the heart of his conversational piece, “Capriccio”. Virtuously the libretto links the artistic discourse with the erotic entanglements of a countess in the Paris of Gluck's opera reform in the late 18th century. But of course how is Countess Madeleine to decide between her two suitors, poet Olivier and composer Flamand, and their arts, when in their fusion in particular the greatest beauty and supreme insight lie?

The musician grown wise with age once again draws a balance in a masterfully deceitful, narcotizing vexatious game with stylistic quotes from the entire of operatic history. But can there be something more unworldly as a self-thematization of opera on the opera stage in the belligerent Germany of 1942, in a time when the genocide of European Jews is at its worst? Director David Marton does not blend out the horror of the period of origin, and nevertheless respects the spirit of the work. His staging is a plea for the consolatory and protective power of art against the barbarity of reality

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