{"id":88923,"date":"2017-02-04T01:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbopera.it\/?p=88923"},"modified":"2017-02-04T01:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:18:39","slug":"komische-oper-berlin-petrushka-lenfant-et-les-sortileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/komische-oper-berlin-petrushka-lenfant-et-les-sortileges\/","title":{"rendered":"Komische Oper Berlin: “Petrushka” & “L’enfant et les sortileges”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Komische Oper Berlin, Season 2016-2017<\/em>
\n\u201cPETRUSHKA\u201d<\/strong>
\nBourlesque in four scenes
\nMusic by Igor Stravinsky<\/strong>
\nPetrushka, the clown<\/em>\u00a0TIAGO ALEXANDRE FONSECA
\nPtitshka, the acrobat<\/em> PAULIINA R\u00c4S\u00c4NEN
\nPatap, the muscle man<\/em> SLAVA VOLKOV
\n\u201c<\/strong><\/em>L’ENFANT ET LES SORTIL\u00c8GES<\/strong>\u201c <\/strong>
\nFantaisie lyrique in two parts, text by Colette
\nMusic by Maurice Ravel<\/strong>
\nPetrushka, the clown<\/em>\u00a0TIAGO ALEXANDRE FONSECA
\nPtitshka, the acrobat<\/em> PAULIINA R\u00c4S\u00c4NEN
\nPatap, the muscle man<\/em> SLAVA VOLKOV
\nThe child<\/em> NADJA MCHANTAF
\nThe mother\/the china cup\/the dragonfly <\/em>EZGI KUTLU
\nThe fire\/the princess\/the nightingale<\/em> TALYA LIEBERMAN
\nThe white cat\/the squirrel <\/em>MARIA FISELIER
\nA shepherdess\/the bat <\/em>BRIGITTE GELLER
\nThe Louis XV chair\/the owl <\/em>MIRKA WAGNER
\nThe armchair\/the tree <\/em>CARSTEN SABROWSKI
\nThe grandfather clock\/the black cat <\/em>DENIS MILO
\nThe Wedgwood teapot\/the Arithmetic man\/the frog <\/em>IVAN TURSIC
\nA shepherd <\/em>KATARZYNA WLODARCZYK
\nDouble of the child <\/em>BARBARA STEPHENSON
\nOrchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
\nChildren\u2019s Choir and extras of the Komische Oper Berlin
\nVokalconsort Berlin
\nChildren\u2019s Choir Dagmar Fiebach
\nConductor Markus Poschner<\/strong>
\nChorus Andrew Crooks
\n<\/strong>Director Suzanne Andrade, <\/strong>Esme Appleton<\/strong>
\nAnimation Paul Barrit
\n<\/strong>Stage\u00a0 & Costumes \u201c1927\u201d<\/strong> (Pia Leong, Katrin Kath, Esme Appleton, Diego Leetz)
\nLight Diego Leetz<\/strong>
\nBerlin, 28th January 2017<\/em>
\nMozart\u2019s \u201cZauberfl\u00f6te\u201d was the first opera the theatre team \u201c1927\u201d staged at the Komische Oper Berlin more than three years ago. Even though it turned into a sensational success very soon, the two producers Suzanne Andrade<\/strong> and Esme Appleton<\/strong> and the animation artist Paul Barritt<\/strong> did not want to do opera again. Komische Oper director Berrie Kosky did not rest to convince \u201c1927\u201d of another project and now they are back with two works that seem to be made for the limitless fantasy \"\"<\/a>of the British picture magicians and their mixture of animation art and acting performers on stage which in some way reminds of the Prague-based Laterna Magica productions. The ballet burlesque \u201cPetrushka<\/strong>\u201d by Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel\u2019s one-act opera \u201c\u201d (\u201cThe child and the spells\u201d) are usually not paired for one opera night although they have in common that dead things are brought to life in them. In \u201cPetrushka\u201d they are the puppets of a juggler during the Shrovetide Fair in St. Petersburg. Things such as china and furniture in the child\u2019s room start a rebellion against the attacks by the bad boy. \u201cPetrushka\u201d once gained world-wide recognition by Sergei Diaghilev\u2019s Ballets Russes and its outstanding male dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role. Today we will rather find it in concert halls. \u201c1927\u201d have found their own approach by casting the three main characters with circus artistes who fit perfectly well into the fast changing scenery with radical and harsh but at the same time charming cartoon animations. They can climb up the large projection wall apparently easily to disappear in opening holes or interact with the film projections which are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of Dadaism, surrealism and Soviet modernism. Tiago Alexandre Fonseca<\/strong> whose appearance resembles silent film star Buster Keaton, turns Petrushka<\/strong> into a tragicomic clown with Charlie Chaplin features. Pauliina R\u00e4s\u00e4nen<\/strong> and Slava Volkov<\/strong> as the other two puppets (here the acrobat Ptishka and the muscle man Patap) provide breathtaking first-class acrobatics \u00e1 la “Cirque du Soleil” to dumbfound the opera audience. \u201cL\u2019enfant et les sortil\u00e8ges\u201d can rarely be seen on stage. How\"\"<\/a> can you bring a teapot, a grandfather clock or an armchair to life without becoming cloddish or even ridiculous? In fact Ravel\u2019s work is intended to be a musical grotesqueness for adults rather than a children\u2019s opera. \u201c1927\u201d\u2019s surge of animated pictures pulls out all the stops to solve the problem but gives rise to another. Whoever does not check before who is going to sing will hardly find out throughout the performance. Like transfer pictures the singers are reduced to their animated cartoon characters most of the time or even sing offstage only, which also applies to the enchanting Children\u2019s Choir and the Vokalconsort Berlin. The Komische Oper can boast excellent young singers after all such as Nadja Mchantaf<\/strong> as the child and Talya Lieberman <\/strong>who manages the high-pitched coloratura fireworks of the fire, the princess and the nightingale effortlessly. Ezgi Kutlu\u2019s <\/strong>warm contralto sounds virtually luxurious for the mother, the china cup and the dragonfly. The singers of the smaller parts contribute on a high level as well. Markus Poschner<\/strong> as the conductor does not only have to pull the Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin<\/strong> together but also keep the pace of the dominating animation. It is amazing how he gets that done especially with Stravinsky\u2019s fiery bi- and polytonal score full of rhythmical dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Komische Oper Berlin, Season 2016-2017 \u201cPETRUSHKA\u201d Bourlesque in four scenes Music by Igor Stravinsky Petrushka, the clown\u00a0TIAGO ALEXANDRE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":88927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18060,1063,9354,4534,3090,6077,12488,376,16607,16610,18061,18064,18062,18065,18059,17592,18058,18063],"class_list":["post-88923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-esme-appleton","tag-ezgi-kutlu","tag-foreign-readers","tag-igor-stravinsky","tag-komische-oper-berlin","tag-lenfant-et-les-sortileges","tag-markus-poschner","tag-maurice-ravel","tag-nadja-mchantaf","tag-orchester-der-komischen-oper-berlin","tag-paul-barritt","tag-pauliina-rasanen","tag-petrushka","tag-slava-volkov","tag-suzanne-andrade","tag-talya-lieberman","tag-team-1927","tag-tiago-alexandre-fonseca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88924,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88923\/revisions\/88924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}