First: The obvious (in German):<\/p>\n
Musikalische Leitung: Antonello Manacorda
\nRegie: Tobias Kratzer
\nB\u00fchnenbild und Kost\u00fcme: Rainer Sellmaier
\nLicht: Jan Hartmann
\nVideo: Manuel Braun
\nChor, Extrachor: Tilman Michael
\nDramaturgie: Konrad Kuhn<\/p>\n
Vasco da Gama: Michael Spyres
\nSelika: Claudia Mahnke
\nNelusko: Brian Mulligan
\nInes: Kirsten MacKinnon
\nDon Pedro: Andreas Bauer
\nDon Diego: Thomas Faulkner
\nDer Gro\u00dfinquisitor von Lissabon: Magn\u00fas Baldvinsson
\nDer Oberpriester des Brahma: Magn\u00fas Baldvinsson
\nDon Alvar: Michael McCown
\nAnna: Bianca Andrew<\/p>\n
This was my first Meyerbeer and my second staging by Tobias Kratzer (his Meisteringer in Karlsruhe were my first, his G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung in Karlsruhe will be my third), and I have to say, that this is a staging, everybody should go and see!<\/p>\n
What Kratzer did together with his dramatic advisor Konrad Kuhn, who also gave a splendid introduction before the opera, was solving the problem of space and time (the l’Africaine should be an Indian, and the Manzanilla-tree is officially located in the Bahamas (but none of those facts were known during da Gama’s period, but they were know 300 hundred years later, when Meyerbeer took these pieces to construct a setting), so time and location are wrong in the original script!) by moving the stage into outer space and into the future. People here know, that I love Ruth Berghaus’ Tristan staging in Hamburg for exactly that: Intelligent (but still oriented and based on facts from the libretto) transformation of the opera, so that we today can learn and experience, what such old things still can tell and teach us today.<\/p>\n
And Tobias Kratzer did that splendidly. His Meistersinger in Karlsruhe were a very traditionally but humorous setting, still based in N\u00fcrnberg, because Wagner did not create as ludicrous deviations from such a traditional setting into his script. Whereas Meyerbeer did in his last grand opera. So, Tobias Kratzer solves as an example in his staging of l’Africaine – Vasco da Gama the problem of women on board of expedition ships by “beaming” them into the scene via Video-Conferencing. There are much more such beautiful ideas, and the audience can laugh happily about many of them during the five hours (Kuhn and Kratzer still removed around 40 minutes (according to Kuhn during his introduction) from the original plot!).<\/p>\n
This is a staging, everyone should visit, it’s funny, the singers\/actors are splendid, their french is easily understandable, they do act on stage.<\/p>\n
At the end there were standing ovations for all.<\/p>\n
Highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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