If the eyes sparkle in the glow of torches and the goose bumps running up and down you can be sure that the staging will be a popular success. But so it is now George Bizet's evergreen "Carmen", in Peer Boysen at the State Theatre Mainz is directing. He has not conjured this sumptuous set design, but leaves the viewer freely look into the flies, from the strutting down the hugely admired Carmen. Quite an industrial character Atmosphere that has something cold and rigid, like the establishment of the choruses sometimes seems quite cool. Strangely uninvolved they spread initially on the Stage remain in their dispute over Carmen's little fight but ultimately uninterested.
But the little scratches on the fascination of this opera, which is also in Mainz with great passion and with a certain pathos to shot the one hand and with a charming, certainly tragic ending of lightness on the other side of the stage. Boysen, who works for the fourth time in Mainz known, the Opera as both "large English Human Drama" and "French Entertainment ". Between the heavy and the light lies the tension, he said before the premiere. Operatic seriousness is the love suffering sergeant Don José fatal, while the fleet exercise in Carmen coquettish skirmishes.
succeed is exactly these contrasts pointedly with a Peer Boysen ensemble acting and a well-attuned Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Catherine Rückwardt effortlessly. Michael Wade Lee sings Don Jose with a lot of power but without violence and are very well understood by the poor fool that is already taken too much of the magic of his supposed love for the seductive factory worker to have backbone to prove it.
is particularly outstanding performance by Tara Venditti, a tremendously sensual and often infamous Carmen Agreement. Her voice is a seductive one, which she uses with masterly finesse and smoothness. It is aware of their role in the almost magical powers with which they are men, especially the one can impose his will across the border out their plans. Dietrich Greve gives off a testosterone-stuffed bull fighter against Don José must contribute almost pathetic. Susanne Geb Micaela gets soft and comfortable. Original Show-effects as the original flamenco group or the variety of the smugglers insert a handy complement Production of charm and pace, d AFor ensure that the gravity does not maintain the upper hand.
tickets at 2851222 or www.staatstheater-mainz.de
Further performances on 20 and 25 September and by April 2010
Published in the Frankfurter Neue Presse
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