The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, -tól (2024/2024), Rendezte Stefan Herheim,, Karmester Louis Lohraseb, Staatsoper, Hamburg, Germany

In times of historical upheaval, euphoric jubilation fills the winners, while fear spreads among the losers. If cheerfulness breaks ground in Mozart's piece, it is the malicious swan song to dying structures, old privileges, outdated procedures - also that between man and woman. Mozart (and Beaumarchais) keep the balance on the threshold of time - as artists on the way to their own self-marketing, in terms of content in the precise drawing of a weight-shifted society with Almaviva as a ridiculous figure. His class loses political power, and as a slave to his sexual passion he compensates for its loss. The wind is blowing from the past, spreading the wings of the angel of Walter Benjamin's story. He is a storm for the victors, for the losers a melancholy breeze. The angel only sees rubble.