Tannhäuser at the golf course

Ditlev Rindom

martes, 7 de mayo de 2019

Zürich, viernes, 5 de abril de 2019.

Zürich Opera House. Tannhäuser, Richard Wagner. Harry Kupfer, director. Sylvie Döring, scenography. Hans Schavernoch, set designer. Yan Tax, costumes. Jürgen Hoffmann, lighting. Ernst Raffelberger, chorus director. Philipp Egli, choreography. Denise Lampart, choreographic designs. Timo Schlüssell, videos. Stephen Gould (Tannhäuser), Lise Davidsen (Elisabeth), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Venus), Mika Kares (Hermann), Michael Nagu (Wolfram), Ian Milne (Walther), Ruben Drole (Biterolf), Martin Zysset (Heinrich), Sen Guo (shepherd), Jacqueline Nussbaum, Rebecca Zöller, Alice Gilfry, Alissa Davidson (boys). Chorus and orchestra of the Zürich Opera House. Axel Kober, conductor.

Tannhäuser is an opera built on binaries. The spirit and the flesh, chastity and promiscuity, community and isolation, even inward listening and visual excess: all of these are opposed in Wagner’s early work. In Harry Kupfer’s 2011 production for Zürich opera, the director adds another pair to the mix: strip bars and golf.

Kupfer’s fifth attempt at the work offers an explicitly contemporary interpretation, with the action relocated to the affluent West. The staging thus contrasts the world of Venusberg – a gaudy, red bordello with gyrating clients – against the bourgeois environment of Wartburg, where the male characters play golf and Elisabeth takes piano lessons.

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