Geschrieben von helga am 27.12.2013 um 12:22:
http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2014/1/Features/Love_in_the_Western_World.html
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| The two central characters are associated with different pitches, B-natural and C-sharp, a whole step apart, yet divided by a third tonal area associated with the mountain itself, based on a low C. "The note between, C-natural, I regard as the note of death," says Wuorinen, recalling its role at the end of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and a long history of powerful but now vestigial associations between tones and ideas. This "foundation note for the mountain," he says, "betokens power and often a certain freedom and peace, and also it is menace." The two characters, musically close but eternally separated, "converge on this disaster." The musical presence of the mountain, introduced in the opera's prelude, distinguishes the stage work from the film, where the setting, while starkly beautiful, was a neutral presence. In the opera, Proulx and Wuorinen develop an almost magical power to the mountain, as if it instigated the love that tortures the two men. |
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| So far, there aren't yet plans for an American production, though Wuorinen says that there have been "nibbles" of interest, and there will be a DVD of the Madrid production. |
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| At movie theaters, Brokeback Mountain recouped more than ten times its minuscule budget of $14 million and settled deep into the popular consciousness, despite its unrelenting sadness. Jack and Ennis have become universal figures, transcending their own painfully circumscribed consciousness, the particulars of time and place, dress and language, and Proulx's original narrative. |
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Translating their story into opera would ordinarily come with risks familiar from operas past — the tendency of the form to sentimentalize and trivialize its literary inspiration. But one can be almost certain that Wuorinen won't go in that direction. The Italian tradition of lyric opera doesn't interest him very much, either. So don't expect his twentieth-century characters to speak with the heart-on-sleeve emotional transparency of Puccini or Verdi or the bel canto masters. Wuorinen is painfully aware of the basic dilemma at the heart of Proulx's original tale: love hits them like a cataclysm, beyond their understanding, beyond the capacity of music to limit or contain. |
Ich habe gestern noch das Hotel für Madrid gebucht. Damit habe ich die Karten, den Flug und das Hotel bestellt. Jetzt sollte eigentlich nichts mehr schiefgehen.
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| Original von AngLee Schade, ich dachte, es würde eine Kostprobe aus der Oper gegeben |
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Original von gerhardr
Gibt es! Ganz am Ende des Videos so gegen 13:48. Es ist der Beginn der Oper und klingt für mich sehr bedrohlich, aber durchaus anhörbar. Und die Musik, am Beginn des Videos ist ebenfalls die Einleitung der Oper. |
