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I’m the Sheik of a Regie

by | 2:53 pm | Jul 5, 2010

regie_06_27_05OpinionatedNeophyte was certainly heading in the right direction when he (she?) guessed our previous Regie quiz suggested Médée. That Greek sorceress was indeed in attendance, but maestro Cherubini had nothing to do with it, because the opera in question was Mayr’s Medea in Corinto. The director was Hans Neuenfels, at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

And that production went something like this:

Now, a little more exotica:
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  • opera-cake says:

    Just in passing… ;)

    Uwe Eric Laufenberg is a GM of the Koeln Opera and is a cool guy. He’s not really what you’d call Regietheater or any kind of cutting edge. OK, that Don Giovanni is transposed to our days but the concept of his theatrical language is very classical (but very-very well done for what it is; c.f. his Rosenkavalier on DVD with Schwanewilms and Vondung).

    Thanks for the link to the video. It looks very interesting: Zerlina is a Turkish girl living in a suburb (there is a huge Turkish minority is Germany!). Turks in Germany are known to be very conservative which fits very well the way Masetto reacts to Don Giovanni, and how he (mis)treats Zerlina.

    The idea is excellent and that’s theater I like: it talks about Don Giovanni, but manages to tackle very subtle social issues that the politicians (and others) feel uncomfortable to talk about…

    Cheers

    on July 12, 2010 at 9:57 AM
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