Blood opera
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | German |
| Year of production | 2011 |
| publication | May 11, 2011 |
| genre | Thriller |
| Duration | 53 min |
| production | SWR / ARD |
| Contributors | |
| author | Christine Lehmann |
| Machining | Ekkehard Skoruppa |
| Director | Mark Ginzler |
| music | Peter Kaizar |
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Blood Opera is a detective radio play of the series of radio crime scene . The original text comes from Christine Lehmann and Alfred Marquardt , with the former being continued after a long time by Friedrich Ani , Uta-Maria Heim and Hugo Rendler , as well as the Stuttgart investigative duo , which she herself developed for Südwestrundfunk , Chief Detective Nina Brändle and Chief Detective Xaver Finkbeiner picks up. Blood Opera first aired on May 11, 2011. A pre-listening of the radio play took place on April 30, 2011 as part of the Schwetzingen SWR Festival. In addition to the main actors, Stephanie Kellner , Franziska Beyer , Bodo Primus and Jens Wawrczeck also performed other well-known speakers and actors.
The present 41st case of the entire series and seventh case of the Stuttgart crime scene primarily revolves around a bloody act in the context of the Schwetzingen SWR Festival and the world premiere of the "Blood Opera".
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The seventh case of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation in Stuttgart leads the stoic and silent South Baden Chief Criminal Officer Xaver Finkbeiner as a profiler in Department 8, “Operative Case Analysis” and his colleague, the verbose and rough- hewn Swabian , Chief Detective Nina Brändle, this time in advance of the actual act in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis to the Schwetzingen SWR Festival , where the world premiere of the “Blood Opera” is planned. Since the star of the production, the capricious soprano Sara Bellamonte, has received anonymous death threats from someone who claimed he was the ghost of the cemetery gardener, Finkbeiner and Brändle are set in motion as undercover agents to create a perpetrator profile and prevent the crime. A task for Finkbeiner, of all places, whose environment increasingly distracts him, as he is a big fan of the opera and admirer of the diva Bellamonte. Brändle, on the other hand, for whom the festival is more like a scheming puppet theater , cynically and critically keeps an eye on the detail as well as the whole.
During the press conference at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in Schwetzingen Castle , the journalists who have arrived are presented with the eponymous contemporary opera by Johann Wolfgang Habgold. This is about the scary ensemble that rises from the crypt every night. The libretto is by Nikolaus Bellamonte-Schmid. The Mannheim-based sausage producer Wendelin Krieg was signed up as the new main sponsor for the festival. “By chance” his daughter Fleur was cast as an understudy for the lead role. Sara Bellamonte received a phone call during the press conference, immediately left the action in the circuit rooms and was now missing. You almost want to forget the stalker in love , whom Fleur has to get rid of on her cell phone. Does the entrepreneur or his daughter have something to do with the disappearance of the opera diva, so that Fleur can play herself in the foreground even more than the already offended star soprano? And what role does the visibly confused stage worker Jaromir play in this case?
background
Any similarities with the opera Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas and Händl Klaus , which actually premiered at the Schwetzingen Festival on April 29, 2011, seemed intentional. The SWR is the permanent organizer of the festival and radio director of the SWR and overall director of the Schwetzingen Festival, Bernhard Hermann , plays himself in a small guest role. In addition, Bluthaus and the opera story quoted here have musical and stylistic similarities such as the singing narrative parts of the Stuttgart vocal ensemble on.
After the first two radio crime scenes from Stuttgart, Himmelreich and Höllental and Mordlauf , both of which came from the pen of Christine Lehmann, and the third case, Falsches Herz by Friedrich Ani and Uta-Maria Heim , who designed the text, Hugo had Rendler designed Finkbeiner's birthday .
Peter Kaizar was responsible for the music for the first time and took over from Ulrich Bassenge and Arndt Wirth . Writer and dramaturge Uta-Maria Heim on the cast: “One is a lazy Black Forest citizen, the other a talkative city dweller: That doesn't work at all. Xaver Finkbeiner and Nina Brändle are like fire and water. Or vice versa, as the name Brändle suggests. With Ueli Jäggi and Karoline Eichhorn we have found the ideal cast. The Finkbeiner was conceived directly on Jäggi and I am very happy that we were able to win him over to the series. And Karoline Eichhorn is a wonderful counterpart . "
In the first two episodes, Nina Brändle was still significantly restricted in her mobility due to a serious motorcycle accident she had suffered four years earlier and had to use walking aids as well as a wheelchair accessible car, but this has changed significantly in the later episodes. Even back then, to the shock of her boss Finkbeiner, who would prefer to pursue his purely intuitive manner in the field service on his own, she was amazingly mobile and loved to push her boss forward, now her physical agility has almost been restored. So she now drives a smaller Ducati again and is also doing martial arts again .
Reviews
- “ Blood opera comes with a lot of humor and a wink, which forms an interesting contrast to the rather serious crime plot. However, the gap is quite large, so that the credibility of the story falls a little by the wayside. Every effort is made to tell the radio play in an original and entertaining way. The most striking, albeit the most disconcerting feature, is the use of the singing narrative voices of the Stuttgart vocal ensemble. That even gives the whole thing an almost silly touch and underlines the humorous aspect of this production. (...) The serious crime plot somehow doesn't really fit in with it and so this production gets lost between the two extremes. (...) But at least the SWR manages to tell a slightly different radio scene. "
- "" Blood Opera "comes up with a lot of humor, witty dialogues, wonderfully exaggerated characters and swipes at the sedate Swabian backdrop, and the comic aspect is clearly in the foreground of this production. A funny detail on the side is also the singing gossip machinery, which is humorously demonstrated by members of the SWR vocal ensemble. The serious counterbalance is provided by Jens Wawrczeck, who is always in a great mood and plays a major role in ensuring that real crime fans get their money's worth. "
- “ Blood opera is quite entertaining to listen to and convinces especially with the police duo and the perpetrator. However, the perpetrator is also the greatest weakness, as a lot of tension is lost through his early exposure. In summary, one can say that the people were hit well and unfortunately had to serve in a bad case. "
General reception of the series
- “All state broadcasters broadcast (..) the new ARD radio Tatort once a month, use the creative potential of their best crime writers and attract additional attention to the traditional radio art form of radio play. The radio Tatort has now reached an audience of millions, and the high number of hits on the Internet (www.radiotatort.ard.de) confirms the acceptance of these thrillers. "
Web links
- Radiotatort - blood opera . On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle/ Accessed October 27, 2012.
- Blood Opera Review . On: www.hoerspieleipps.net. Accessed October 28, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radio-Tatort Blutoper . ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Südwestpresse . May 3, 2011. Accessed October 28, 2012.
- ↑ In search of the missing star soprano. On: presseanzeiger.de. Accessed October 28, 2012.
- ↑ Pre-listening: ARD radio crime scene "Blutoper" ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: www.lokalmatador.de. Accessed October 28, 2011.
- ↑ programm.ard.de
- ↑ Cult would be better. ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle. Accessed October 26, 2012.
- ↑ Review of blood opera. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.hoerspieleipps.net. Accessed October 28, 2012.
- ↑ Review of blood opera. On: www.hoerspatz.de. Accessed October 28, 2012.
- ^ Review of blood opera. On: gedankenecke.de. Accessed October 28, 2012.
- ↑ Tom Sprenger: ARD Radio Tatort solves the 50th case. ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.radiowoche.de. March 6, 2012. Accessed October 28, 2012.
