If Opera should be elitist, what is an evening at the Opera with Anna Netrebko would be then in front of three hundred guests? The much-touted “new normal”? The Russian soprano made her debut as Elisabetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo”, and only a hand-picked audience was allowed to attend this star hour. This was due to the distance rules, which are now also in Dresden’s Semper Opera house.
After all, it is a success, there a variety of Streaming Offered at least to some extent to revive the game of operation and a programme – albeit limited – participation allows to alive Music. The Motto for this Alternative game plan is with a somewhat strange word “Aufklang!”, and the kick-off to the Front of the bot equal to four Times an excellent singer occupation on the stage. A replacement for the Easter festival in Salzburg announced the production of “Don Carlo” by Vera Nemirova, the should be implemented with a prologue by Manfred Trojahn provided originally in may to Dresden, was not the by no means. But a quite independent form of art: Verdi in concert form, at one and a half hours, shortened and in a chamber music institution.
anyone Who has ever experienced the musically hard-fought duels between the Caffè Florian and Gran Caffè Quadri on the Venetian St. mark’s square, was allowed to feel in their Banda-sounds reminiscent. Because what was offered here instead of a large orchestra only violin, cello, double bass, flute, Oboe, English horn, and Harmonium and piano, was very much part of this as catchy as rousing open-air music. No operatic opulence, still spell, Italianità, gluten! Alone the singing Cello Solo to “Ella giammai m’amò” had an intensity that went under the skin. From the wings the performance was directed by Johannes Wulff-Woesten, the selected altitude had been set up points of the Opera for chamber ensemble.
Only an hour and a half was allowed to this “Don Carlo” last, non-stop, he had to be, and distance should go on the stage. Which meant only five available rows in the parquet and then about a hundred and fifty in the whole room distributed double seats. In addition to the eight formidable instrumentalists of the Staatskapelle seven members of the state Opera chorus, and seven soloists themselves. Really close to just Anna Netrebko and her husband, the Tenor Yusif Eyvazov, as Elisabetta, Queen of Spain, and he as Don Carlo, the Infante in love with the uprisings at the end. could So, ironically, the Pair to be torn apart in the Opera.
With theatrical allusions – would be fully in the dark, with plenty of applications provided with the dress is the Royal Diva, a full platter of Gestures your Partner – was the concert, the Rest of the scenic game. But above all, bribed, of course, the musical force in this also for Dresdner conditions expensive “Aufklang!” Although ticket sales and expectations have been fuelled pressure well, especially with the name of the Stars, which was also her debut Role – here is Netrebko in equal excellence in the service of the music. Hot with fervor and she exhaled her Golden voice, impressed with poignant drama, and earned for her, in every respect, sovereign presence is always loud Bravi. Eyvazov sound, however, burnished in the usual way peculiar, although with plenty of melting of the Desperate.
As the Princess Eboli in the silver-grey sparkling dress sang Elena Maximova, the beauty of the lack of a scene image (“Nel giardin del bello”) and put in the later Quartet, “Ah! sii maledetto“, a vocal theatrics to the day. The ensemble of Soloists of the house belonging to the Bass Alexandros Stavrakakis drowned out in places, and the small orchestra, but always deeply touching, the brilliant Chords and melody, and Verdi’s rise to welled. Downright heavenly, the English horn in Elisabetta’s Romance in “Non pianger, mia compagna”.
the Marquis of Posa and king Philip were filled in-house. Sebastian Directive to be amended Posas “O Carlo, ascolta, and touched with the friendship of proof” almost to tears, what was in that particular constellation, almost as a Memento Mori for the art form of Opera to listen to. King nobel was Tilmann Rönnebeck with a Bass full of color and constant force than Philip, tantalizingly fresh, Mariya Taniguchi from the young Ensemble in your Part as Tebaldo.
