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(Nmz) - The premiere in the old Opera House Bratislava: Sold out! The better circles of the Slovak capital were visibly and audibly impressed or even thrilled that in the course of (co-organized with Vienna) World Music Days once again reached a veritable new opera on the board of the National Theatre after a long time. Then there is the work of a young composer, who is promoted by a major German music publisher and therefore had the chance to succeed internationally - Ľubica Čekovská put music to edit one of the most famous novels of literary history: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
Last managed with "The Players" by Juraj Beneš a Slovakian plant onto the international stage (and also with a reliance on "world literature") - this modern Hamlet opera was written in the late 20th century Paris, because Directorate change there but no longer considered and then with considerable delay before a dozen years premiered at the Cologne Opera).
And now "Dorian Gray" - the opera original compressed by Kate Pullinger, which is treated as a "successful hq tube writer" in the Anglo-American literature room - with music since the time of the illustrious snobbery and the risk of reprisals hedonism Oscar Wilde's still experiences of more than a hundred years could collect and combine music and opera history. hq tube
Oscar Wilde derived from the fin de siècle London novel addressed the correlation between a. Already during the process as achieved acclaimed image and the increasingly determined by lusts and vices biography of the beautiful young man who models hq tube for him Wilde wrote relish the homoerotic desires of loafers Upper class in its text and slipped in so far as it allowed the censorship, standing in the UK at the end of the 19th century under penalty homosexual obsessions. From an (almost Platonic) Teaching conversation about the inevitability of aging between the diabolical Lord Henry, the naive beau Dorian Gray at this longing for eternal youth development; he sold - an ancient literary model following - his soul: The picture is aging, while he does in his escalating addiction guilty pleasure, and will remain young in a dramatic way. The librettist was the Wild's discourse on fine art and real life little left and focused after the manner of boulevard theater on the striking effect can be brought to the stations of the sloping biography of a dandy. So how can it be seduced all too willing to Lord Henry and debut as a very young actress takes to the chest, hq tube this ruined quickly and suicide drives (and later the sidekick Alan); as the "Rake's Progress" then goes on, through clubs, dive bars and opium dens and zeitigt among others the murder of the painters of the pattern image on the path of debauchery. In the end, Gray catches up with his guilt and crashes (up) into his own knife.
All this tells the staging of Nicola Raab simple and linear in a setting that suggests late with a few brush strokes and props 19th century and some of its decadence. The transfer of the age of the person on whose image but she saved from: Is the likeness hq tube of the speech, it turns all Eric Fennell, the durable tenor for the title role in the frame. Although the skilfully avoids the need to show portraiture entirely on the amount of time and to constantly changing (like device like embarrassing), but the drama brings with it to the higher whistle. Certainly, the composer Ľubica Čekovská tried to let music take the hollow passage: "Voices of the picture", sung by a boys' choir, prerecorded and edited electronically, as a reminder or leitmotif move through the three acts, appear in different versions ten times.
Since this is a total history related from the beginning art form at the opera, is not up for discussion, that the new working Čekovská, the attributable outright the category of literature opera