Wall show (opera)
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| Title: | Wall show |
| Shape: | Opera |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Hauke Berheide |
| Libretto : | Amy Stebbins |
| Literary source: | Heinrich von Kleist: Penthesilea u. a. |
| Premiere: | June 29, 2016 |
| Place of premiere: | Munich riding arena |
| Playing time: | approx. 1 ½ hours |
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Mauerschau is an opera for six singers, an actress, a vocal ensemble and a small orchestra by Hauke Berheide (music) with a libretto by Amy Stebbins about Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea . It was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera for the Munich Opera Festival and was premiered on June 29, 2016 in the Reithalle Munich .
layout
The content of the opera deals with the tragic love story between Achilles and Penthesilea , whose roles were each supplemented by two “shadows”. This framework is interrupted several times. A messenger (actress) repeatedly reports on the development of the news media.
The opera consists of twelve scenes, each characterized by their own musical language “from the finest chamber music and beguilingly beautiful sounds to a brutal dissonant wind attack”.
Work history
The opera was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera for the 2016 Opera Festival. Amy Stebbins' libretto is based on texts by Heinrich von Kleist , Colin Powell , Karoline von Günderrode , Ernst Moritz Arndt , Friedrich Nietzsche , Hannes Küpper , Donald Rumsfeld and Joschka Fischer .
The musical director of the premiere of 29 June 2016 in the riding hall Munich had Oksana Lyniv . Like the libretto, the production was by Amy Stebbins, the stage and video by Luftwerk and the costumes by Belén Montoliú. The Bavarian State Orchestra , the extra choir of the Bavarian State Opera, Adriana Bastidas-Gamboa (Penthesilea), Leela Subramaniam (Penthesileas high shadow), Hanna Herfurtner (Penthesileas deep shadow), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Achill), Joshua Owen Mills ( Achill's high shadow), Frederic Jost (Achill's deep shadow) and Hildegard Schmahl (messenger).
The composer Hauke Berheide was awarded the Festival Prize of the Munich Opera Festival 2016.
Web links
- Wall show - information on the website of the Bavarian State Opera
- Interview with Hauke Berheide and Amy Stebbins about the premiere “Wall Show” on BR-Klassik on June 28, 2016
- Rudolf Hermes: Review in Der Opernfreund
- Marco Frei: Hauke Berheide's opera “Wall Show” in the riding hall. Review of June 30, 2016 and interview with the composer in the evening newspaper
- The Aria of Achilles sung by Edwin Crossley Mercer on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Hermes: "An ornament for the opera festival". Review on DerWesten , accessed December 5, 2016.
- ↑ Klaus Kalchschmid: kisses, bites. Music theater review in Die Deutsche Bühne , accessed on December 5, 2016.
- ↑ Cast list of the Bavarian State Opera (PDF) , accessed on December 5, 2016.