Slowly: "Pénélope" at the Munich Opera Festival

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At the festival song recital, tenor Piotr Beczała and pianist Helmut Deutsch amaze the audience at the National Theatre.

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Why did Gabriel Fauré write only one opera? One suspects: his "Pénélope" is missing, with all the beauty of the music, from drama. But that also has to do with his heroine. A director and a conductor have finally understood the character.

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Director Andrea Breth turns "Pénélope" by Gabriel Fauré into a slow motion choreography. This captivates and opens up a lot of space for an outstanding cast.

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The Paris premiere of "Pénélope" on 10 May 1913 in the Théatre des Champs-Élysées was a triumphant success. And a late satisfaction for Gabriel Fauré. As a young man, he was a favorite of the Proustian salons and had made a career at the official institutions such as the Société Nationale de Musique and the Paris Conservatoire, whose director he had been since 1905, so he had been denied success on the prestigious opera stage until then. However…

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At the Munich Opera Festival, the second festival premiere will be held.A piece for which the President of the European Central Bank found great words.Odysseus returns to his wife - but very, very slowly: At the Munich Opera Festival, a slow-motion version of Gabriel Fauré's opera "Pénélope" premiered. Director Andrea Breth focuses on deceleration during her debut at the Bavarian State Opera. All figures move minimalistically, almost robotically…

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Munich - At the Munich Opera Festival the second festival premiere is due. A piece for which the President of the European Central Bank found great words.