L'Invisibile by Reimann, ven 02 mag 2025, Da (2025/2025), Diretto da Daniela Löffner, Direttore d'orchestra Titus Engel, Oper Frankfurt, Francoforte sull'Oder, Germania

Aribert Reimann's opera L'invisible combines three plays by Maurice Maeterlinck into a poetic reflection on the power of death: L'intruse shows a mother struggling for survival in childbirth. While most of their relatives fail to recognize the seriousness of the situation, only the blind grandfather notices the arrival of an invisible stranger. Intérieur takes the suicide of a young woman as its starting point. Two men are supposed to inform the family of the deceased and ask themselves whether it wouldn't be more humane to keep quiet about the bitter truth. La mort de Tintagiles is reminiscent of a dark fairy tale: an old queen lures her grandson Tintagiles into her kingdom in order to have him murdered as her potential heir to the throne. Supported by his sisters, Tintagiles is initially able to defend himself. But eventually he too disappears into his grandmother's mysterious castle. Maeterlinck's dramas from the late 19th century oscillate between bourgeois realism and symbolist ambiguity. The everyday always refers to the abyss of death, which is also omnipresent in Reimann's score. The characters' fears and premonitions are experienced not only in expressive vocal lines, but also in iridescent orchestral interludes. A contrasting instrumentation allows the three pieces to blend together.