The Berlin underground is currently full of posters of the season premiers at Deutsch Oper. They're all a little bizarre: Don Carlo in a wife beater; Elsa looking thoroughly disheveled, Jenufa actually looking fairly normal. My camera is being weird, so the pictures aren't great, but it makes me smile to see the opera advertised so exceptionally well.
Still, there's a large part of me that's surprised at the premiers: Deutsche Oper has seriously never produced Lohengrin before? Really? And Don Carlo? Color me surprised. Still, I'm looking forward to it all. Not Lohengrin. My inner feminist wants to murder everyone at the end of that opera.
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Don Carlo as James Dean..........terrific.
As for Lohengrin - we should talk about this - how about we call it Lohengrina, and reverse the genders of Lohengrin and Elsa -can we make that work? My inner and outer feminists adore the myth-making and the music....they simply lie down and purr - sorry........
@shapta-dakini: Yeah, that's what I thought! I'm not sure what kind of twist they'll put in the productions, though.
I may rent the JK Lohengrin and watch it, just to see. Maybe actually viewing it will change my mind. I like the idea of switching the genders, though. That would be cool to see onstage, but only in a theatrical context, I'm afraid.
also meant to say - Elsa doesn't die - she's very happy to get her little brother back.......
Just heard the ROH radio broadcast of July's Tosca - looking forward to the DVD, which will probably take Years... JK does a little laugh when he thinks he is going to the mock execution - brilliantly done - makes the ending even more dreadful... AG is wonderfully murderous.
Yes, definitely rent the Lohengrin DVD - it's great.
Oh, opera advertisements. I'm with you, though, I like the quirkiness of the Berlin images. Watch the Lohengrin DVD! It sort of subverts/plays with the whole traditional domesticity trope in a fascinating way. There's not quite actual gender-switching, but... well, watch it and see what you think. To some degree, Feminist Rage is unavoidable with Lohengrin, I suspect, but I also ADORE the music. And with Harteros and Kaufmann, I'm afraid that I'm also distracted from high-minded objections for, um, other reasons as well. *ahem*
I am SO jealous that you get to hear her Elisabetta; I beg, entreat, and implore that you will blog about it in excruciating detail.
@Lucy: I have to go on Tuesday (Monday being a National Holiday) to the opera to see about getting Don Carlo tickets. I want to see it; it looks amazing. And yes, Anja Harteros. :)
Definitely gotta see "Lohengrin". I'm sure they have the JK dvd somewhere for rent in Berlin...
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