The Hunt (Opera)
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| Title: | The hunt |
| Shape: | Singspiel |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Marios Joannou Elia |
| Libretto : | Marianne Freidig, Andreas Liebmann |
| Premiere: | December 18, 2008 |
| Place of premiere: | Stuttgart (State Opera) / Schwabengarage Stuttgart |
| Playing time: | about 80 minutes |
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The hunt (subtitle: "Nature Opera with Cars") is an opera in 16 scenes by Marios Joannou Elia . The original libretto was written by Marianne Freidig and Andreas Liebmann.
action
The protagonists, three family members and initially customers in a department store, slide into dream worlds right from the start. You experience a dreamy forest area. The parents give in to their marital crisis, the daughter feels threatened by nature. One after the other, father, mother and daughter go hunting and return, entranced to hysterical and sometimes covered with blood. A man comes into play who pretends to be the owner of the car garage (= the devil). The daughter at least insists that she has found her forest in the village. In the background the choir of the city voices shimmer and the mountain of dead animals grows in the air.
criticism
“This confusion is of course a concept. The delimitation of the protagonists' boundaries spreads over to the audience, who also easily lose their bearings in the sometimes surreal scenery. In between you think you are in an absurd, crazy theater, which is not least due to the way the speaking and singing voices are created: Singing, stuttering, twittering and tremolating, the composer combines all the vocal means of expression of new music with virtuosity with capers striking, dadaesque playful language. Just as virtuoso and with a love of detail, the piece is staged and equipped, and technically it is also perfectly implemented. The composer's combination of car noises and orchestra also succeeded brilliantly. "
Trivia
- The hunt transforms the Schwabengarage Stuttgart at Cannstatter Straße 46 into a stage and turns cars into protagonists.
- A so-called “car sextet” is part of the opera's musical instruments. At the premiere it was u. a. an Aston Martin Volante, a Jaguar , a Ford Mustang and a Land Rover Defender .
- The hunt was premiered by the Stuttgart State Opera , the Rampe Theater Stuttgart and the Stuttgart State Orchestra (musical direction: Bernhard Epstein , direction: Eva Hosemann, dramaturgy Xavier Zuber , costumes: Ingrid Leibezeder, room design: Hubert Schwaiger).
- The world premiere and five other performances in December 2008 were sold out.
- Reports were shown on television in the ARD Tagesthemen , among others : "Strong sound - cars as opera stars".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 18, 2008.
- ↑ Hup (rooms): Nature Opera with Cars in the Schwabengarage on ioco.de from December 10, 2008, accessed on April 6, 2018
- ↑ Music from Motorgebrumm and Metallgeklapper on www.welt.de from December 23, 2008, accessed on January 25, 2012