At the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Richard Strauss' "La Femme Sans Ombre" Passes on the Couch of Director Barrie Kosky
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Festival de Aix-en-Provence 'Die Frau provided Schatten' Music: Richard Strauss Libreto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal Interpreters: Michael Spyres (The Emperor), Vida Miknevičiūtė (The Empress), Nina Stemme (The Nurse), Brian Mulligan (Barak, a dry cleaner), Ambur Braid (The Woman of the Dryer), Jean-Sébastien Bou (The Messenger, Voice of the Halcón), Tomasz Kumięga (A Tuerto), Daniel Miroslaw (A Manco), Robert Lewis (A Hunchback, Apparition of a Beaut…
A flagship event of the 78th edition of the lyrical art festival, the staging of the Australian Barrie Kosky releases "The Woman Without Shadow" from his patriarchal obsessionsA rocking-chair swings, imperturbable, in an absolute void and black. With its evil air, the nanny watches at the centre of nothingness. The deafness of the coppers immediately draws a universe of disturbing strangeness, where simiesque silhouettes roam with furious steps.…
Festival von Aix-en-Provence: Jungstar Klaus Mäkelä excites as Richard Strauss conductor with "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (The Woman Without Shadows). Barrie Kosky stages an excellent ensemble in strong images. Two couples, a noble, an ordinary, find each other after hard trials. Hugo von Hofmannsthal also had Mozart's "Magic Flute" in mind when he first performed Richard Strauss in Vienna in 1919, "Woman without Shadows". A poetic fairytale thicke…
Aix-en-Provence starts the summer opera festival with Mozart's "Magic Flute" and the "Woman without Shadow" by Richard Strauss. While a conductor has his fire test, a director does not succeed in a permanent performance.
The lyrical blockbuster by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannstahl is served by the masterly understanding between conductor Klaus Mäkelä and director Barrie Kosky, an orchestra at the top and a high-flying distribution.
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