Reseñas de producciones pasadas
3Es ésta una de esas representaciones de ópera de las que uno sale del teatro plenamente satisfecho y pensando: Ha merecido la pena el viaje. Efectivamente, hemos asistido a una estupenda representación de esta gran obra de Richard Wagner, que ha contado con una magnífica realización musical y un destacado reparto vocal, aparte de una producción escénica con sus atractivos. Se ha vuelto a ofrecer la producción escénica que tuve ocasión de ver en Febrero de 2018, casi entonces coincidiendo con la reapertura del teatro de la Unter den Linden, que había estado cerrado por obras durante 5 años.
Daniel Barenboim leitete ein spannungsvolles und aufgeladenes Dirigat, meist in langsamen Tempi trieb er seine Sänger durch plötzliche Laustärkewechsel voran. Wo Barenboim zuletzt in den Meistersingern seine Solisten noch auf Händen trug, lud er nun die Gefühlsschwankungen der Tristan-Partitur erbarmungslos auf seine Solisten aus. Die Staatskapelle Berlin folgte ihrem GMD unermüdlich, die Sänger motivierte dies zu neuen Höchstleistungen.
Of the three principals, Marcelo Álvarez was most successful at integrating a strain of lyricism into an otherwise dramatic role. His Dick Johnson stood apart from the patrons of the Polka bar not only in sartorial terms – his crisp black suit put him immediately at odds with the jeans and flannel around him – but in his suave, supple delivery, especially his elegantly sculpted expressions of feeling for Minnie at the end of the first act. As Jack Rance, Michael Volle distinguished himself as much through intelligence as force; he was the most charismatically dangerous figure on stage, yet his glowering, contemptuous manner with the miners made his brief flashes of humanity all the more disarming. He was also an ideal vocal partner for Ms Kampe, and in an opera full of grandly-wrought emotion, the palpable malice in the scenes between Minnie and Rance emerged as perhaps the most authentic; for all the production’s visual flash, it was the simple confrontation between these two forces that provided the evening with its greatest excitement.
