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Lydia Steier made many plans for her production of the "Magic Flute" in Salzburg: the director moved history on the eve of the First World War, inspiring of a comic and creating a fairytale circus world. At the premiere on Friday night, she received a lot of approval. And some boos.
With the first sounds of the Magic Flute Overture begins the agitation of the scene: a large mansion, a family waiting at the table, children are late for dinner, the scene ends with a fight . The grandfather takes the three boys to bed and reads them a story before: "The Magic Flute."
Salzburg Festival / Ruth Walz
Klaus Maria Brandauer appears as narrator of the storyteller of the Magic Flute in the Circus Country
Director Lydia Steier, born in the United States and based in Berlin, decided to reinvent his "Magic Flute". Klaus Maria Brandauer, who spoke for the sick Bruno Ganz, leads as a narrator through the plot that connects reality and the world of dreams. For this, Steier and the playwright Ina Karr rewrote parts of the spoken booklet and put it in the mouth of the narrator grandfather.
Salzburg Festival / Ruth Walz
Papageno and Pamina Seek Tamino
] The fairy tale begins and Tamino, hunted by a giant snake, suddenly lands on the nursery floor. The three boys, played by the Vienna Boys & Choir, accompany the young adventurer in his quest for wisdom, truth and love, immersing him in an imaginary world located between Steampunk and the portraits of Diane Arbus.
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The ORF shows the "Magic Flute" of Salzburg on Saturday August 4, live at 8:15 pm in ORF 2.
After Steier, she s & # 39; 39, inspired comics "Little Nemo in Slumberland". These dream trips of the young Nemo appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York Herald from 1905 and accompany a boy, who lives bizarre and fantastic adventures in sleep
Artists, animals, attractions
The director also follows this principle with her production. She leads not only the three children, but also the audience into the fantasy world of Prince Sarastro – a circus director who commissions clowns, dancing bears, acrobats, jugglers, waders and many others. Baritone Matthias Goerne fulfills this role with a mystical threat, but the bbad section seems to put some pressure on him
This is followed by the three boys Tamino (Mauro Peter), who now support him as "Three Boys" The success of the adventure is in danger
Salzburg Festival / Ruth Walz
Sarastro is master of an abyssal circus kingdom
As Tamino seeks Pamina, imprisoned by Sarastro somewhere in this colorful carnival scene. A role in which Christiane Karg distinguishes herself vocally and dramatically. Albina Shagimuratova convinces as the mother of Paminas and the opponent of Sarastros, the queen of the night
"Die Zauberflöte" on the couch
The doctor and therapist Georg Titscher sees a story of growing up and contract of generation in the "Magic Flute". 19659011] Remains the too humane Papageno bird manipulator, who moves as the only figure back and forth between the two worlds of staging. Adam Plachetka fills the role with good humor, but sometimes becomes blurred in the unrest that takes place on stage
Disengaged from the Path of the Lights
In addition to all the exciting images that Stier reveals on the trials of the Lovers of the scene, she does not lose sight of the central concepts of opera enlightening Mozart / Schikaneder. The Magic Flute was written in 1791, two years after the beginning of the French Revolution, at a time of radical change in Europe. The plot relocated them again in 1913, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
Salzburg Festival / Ruth Walz
The images of the staging go from colorful and strident to dark and threatening
Das who threatens, shows Steier during the fire and l & rsquo; Water sample in which images of veterans and killed soldiers are projected on the far wall. One aspect of the staging, which irritates at first, leaves them in an unexpected way, the fairy tale. But that's exactly what can happen when a company leaves the path of Illumination and begins to stumble.
Exams of the Present
For Steier, this seems to be the bridge to the present. The world has become confused, every day new crises emerge, destabilizing people and destabilizing the social fabric. Dealing with your own fears and overcoming them is the central theme of the Magic Flute and one of the great "trials" of the present.
In times of increasing darkening, playing an illumination job is especially important, says Steier. All the spectators did not follow the path of enlightenment at the exit of their new "Magic Flute". Many were surprised, but did not want to involve in the childish perspective, which throws other highlights on the themes of this fairy tale. Several applause mixed with applause for several minutes
Marlene Nowotny, for ORF.at
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