holds With 18,000 kilometers, the "Co-Opera - Opera on the move" probably the eternal course record. So far been no ensemble has traveled to attend the May Festival. But the concept of "Outback's opera" consists precisely in this discontinuity. 15,000 km, it shall return each season to penetrate to the farthest corners of Australia. Three minibuses and a truck it moves through the most inhospitable areas to perform in front of farmers, cattle ranchers, prospectors and miners.
have the baggage that music pioneers nothing less than traditional opera in contemporary dress carefully. Since the action breaks even for a short pop song, sometimes the actors also mix with the audience. But the real opera this way is never popular mediation sacrificed. Through the good relations between the State Theater and the Australian Opera scene that has already brought great artists to Wiesbaden, the local public could now get a taste of this unusual ensemble.
course, not such an extravagant guest will be invited to the Big House, it was Mozart's "Magic Flute" in the cultural and communication center positioned slaughterhouse. Also here were in addition to the usual opera lovers of curious onlookers came who wanted to see how the place is otherwise used for rock concerts and parties, the Opera Stage.
And the experiment worked. With tremendous enthusiasm, the singers are on the spartan access with a metal frame equipped stage. The Director Tessa Bremner verleget the action in the competitive world of catering, where they can be quite easily accommodate. It is all alone left to the singers to carry the concept, because apart from a few light effects, there is no support. But everything they need, because its never diminishing presence provides plenty of power.
musically also comes across some. Jeremy Tatchell is a lively Papageno, who earns his keep here, not with living birds, but with grilled chicken. Sara Lambert confers with brilliant timbre of Pamina a successful girlish charm, Eleanor Blythman is an outstanding, coloratura safe queen of the night, Andrea Carcassi a sonorous Sarastro and Vincent Fusco is as greasy cooking Monostatos befitting nasty and disgusting. Only Ernst Ens seems the role of Tamino in parts vocally a little overwhelmed.
A real stroke of luck is the visit of the Australians for five students at the Wiesbaden Music Academy. Manuel Wuest (flute), Leonie Dessauer (oboe), Christian Claus (clarinet), Jörg Hahn (bassoon) and Lincon Dias (Horn) use the chance to help shape a complete opera, with great commitment and a surprising sophistication, to the chamber music ensemble under the direction Brian Chatterton fits perfectly.
Published in the Frankfurter Neue Presse
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