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\"Germany\"Germany<\/span><\/span><\/span> Wagner, Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>: <\/span><\/strong>Soloists, Staatskapelle Berlin \/ Christian Thielemann (conductor). Filmed (directed by Andy Sommer) on 30.10.2022 at Staatsoper Unter den Linden however accessible till 17.2.2023 on ARTE Concert. (JPr)<\/p>\n

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Michael Volle (Wotan) and Anja Kampe (Br\u00fcnnhilde) \u00a9 Monika Rittershaus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Production:
<\/strong>Director, Set Design \u2013 Dmitri Tcherniakov
Costumes \u2013 Elena Zaytseva
Lighting \u2013 Gleb Filshtinsky
Video \u2013 Alexey Poluboyarinov
Dramaturgy \u2013 Tatiana Werestchagina, Christoph Lang<\/p>\n

Cast:
<\/strong>Siegmund \u2013 Robert Watson
Sieglinde \u2013 Vida Miknevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117
Hunding \u2013 Mika Kares
Wotan \u2013 Michael Volle
Br\u00fcnnhilde \u2013 Anja Kampe
Fricka \u2013 Claudia Mahnke
Gerhilde \u2013 Clara Nadeshdin
Helmwige \u2013 Christiane Kohl
Waltraute \u2013 Michal Doron
Schwertleite \u2013 Alexandra Ionis
Ortlinde \u2013 Anett Fritsch
Siegrune \u2013 Natalia Skrycka
Grimgerde \u2013 Anna Lapkovskaja
Rossweisse \u2013 Kristina Stanek<\/p>\n

After Dmitri Tcherniakov established the Konzept<\/em> for his new Ring cycle <\/em>with Das Rheingold<\/em> (evaluate click on right here<\/a>) there are diminishing returns along with his Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em> and it’s clear his experiments in human behaviour and social interactions are going severely off the rails. If Rheingold<\/em> started on the \u2018Research Centre\u2019 within the Nineteen Sixties then time has now moved on a number of years and we first see Wotan voyeuristically observing Sieglinde combing her hair from his workplace by means of a big one-way mirror. She is in her residing quarters which has an open skeletal framework and is fitted out with all mod cons seemingly from IKEA. There is a bed room, front room with desk, chairs and couch, kitchen, bathe and bathroom all on one degree. During the Prelude (stormy and rain-soaked within the music if not on stage) we see a \u2018Criminal Report\u2019 a couple of prisoner who \u2018managed to escape during an accident with a prisoner transport van\u2019 and the outline of him is \u20181\u201985, gray hair on left temple\u2019 and the way he’s \u2018aggressive and psychologically unstable\u2019. Of course, that’s Siegmund who arrives at Sieglinde\u2019s door (not that there was one) in his maroon hooded jacket. She is in a gold knitted high over a patterned gown and will get water for Siegmund from the fridge.<\/p>\n

Sieglinde already appears to reside on her nerves and that’s made worse by the arrival of her abusive husband within the uniform of a high-ranking safety officer and \u2013 in a scene of domesticity reminiscent from Tcherniakov\u2019s latest Bayreuth Der fliegende Holl\u00e4nder<\/em> \u2013 the desk is laid for a meal for Siegmund and Hunding and Sieglinde serves them soup, adopted by meat and potatoes. Hunding cleans his gun earlier than threatening Sieglinde with it after which mistreating her. The set turns and we see Hunding\u2019s night-time drink being drugged and he’s proven getting ready for mattress the place Sieglinde will be part of him. Siegmund has been handcuffed, although Sieglinde quickly sneaks away from bed to unlock him. What she is indicating above the mirror is unclear even in closeup and he or she seems more and more neurotic and to be retreating right into a (romantic?) fantasy world. However \u2013 in the one factor Wagner would recognise up to now \u2013 there really is a sword buried within the wall which Siegmund retrieves earlier than the set turns once more to indicate Wotan trying on.<\/p>\n

The second act opens with Sieglinde and Siegmund gathering their belongings and setting off earlier than Wotan (in lime inexperienced go well with) enters to retrieve some champagne from the fridge and have a self-congratulatory drink with Br\u00fcnnhilde (in white shirt, black slacks and blue overcoat). Soon Wotan and Fricka (gold shirt and brown skirt) are bickering in his workplace. They quickly return to the home to proceed their argument and Hunding will ultimately get up, gown and go away unnoticed by Fricka and Wotan who’s made to signal a contract limiting his actions in relation to Siegmund. Wotan roams round taking his anger out on inanimate objects such because the desk and later the information in his workplace, in addition to Br\u00fcnnhilde who he ultimately forces to obey him. The dichotomy between what we see and listen to continues as she sings about how her (non-existent) weapons weigh her down.<\/p>\n

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Robert Watson (Siegmund) and Vida Miknevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (Sieglinde) \u00a9 Monika Rittershaus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lab with the rabbits rises up and Sieglinde is there trying as if she is shedding contact with actuality earlier than showing to faint by the elevate and be cradled in Siegmund\u2019s arms. She\u2019ll get better sufficient to go all the way down to the bottom flooring (Nibelheim in Rheingold<\/em>) and when she collapses once more Siegmund carries her to the final of the three small labs. Br\u00fcnnhilde is initially pretty static and distanced from Siegmund for the Todesverk\u00fcndigung<\/em>. Sieglinde rouses herself as soon as once more \u2013 although trying more and more comatose \u2013 and can beat herself up after Br\u00fcnnhilde and Siegmund go away to prepare for the confrontation with Hunding which we don’t get to see. However, we do get to see the Norns tending to the rabbits after which on a naked stage, after Wotan\u2019s \u2018Geh! Geh!\u2019 command for Hunding to kneel earlier than Fricka, as an alternative of falling down lifeless he simply walks off. Siegmund is then set upon by riot police and nothing occurs with any sword so far as I may see.<\/p>\n

We be taught that Act III is \u2018Prior to the analysis of the field research on violence\u2019 and we’re again within the lecture theatre from Rheingold.<\/em> We will ultimately see the Valkyries lounging round it, they’re all in darkish garments and have backpacks or different baggage. They are undoubtedly college students, however of what? Instead of their heroes, we learn on a display screen the psychological portraits of assorted check topics, considered one of whom is a \u2018covert sadist\u2019 and one other an \u2018aggressor\u2019. One of them was born in 1965 so we have to be now a while within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. Br\u00fcnnhilde brings in Sieglinde who now appears completely out of it, she pulls herself collectively on the information of the kid she carries and is given a damaged sword wrapped in plastic and instructed the place she will go to be protected. Sieglinde leaves solely to be introduced again when Wotan is available in. From this level he’s not often nonetheless and since issues should not going to plan it’s all clearly taking a psychological toll on Wotan too and he’ll want the cigarette he later lights (there’s numerous smoking on this Ring<\/em>). In his anger he throws across the chairs although the Valkyries don\u2019t notably look that fearful of him earlier than they merely go away together with Sieglinde. Wotan is more and more a damaged man however reaches a rapprochement along with his errant daughter they usually embrace. Br\u00fcnnhilde begins play-acting with Wotan as if she is regressing to her childhood. She flutters her fingers standing on a chair in the course of a circle of them on which she has drawn flames with a felt pen. Wotan brings her down and the set recedes together with him to go away Br\u00fcnnhilde together with her backpack on the entrance of the stage because the lonely sufferer of an estranged household relationship.<\/p>\n

What is more and more clear is that \u2013 no matter his Konzept<\/em> \u2013 Tcherniakov\u2019s Personregie<\/em> has raised the performing of his solid on this Die Walk\u00fcre <\/em>to a degree extra expertise in straight theatre or a TV drama than in an opera home. It can also be not a lot how every of an completed solid act<\/em> however how they react<\/em> to others on stage with them. Truthfully when you strip away the \u2018Research Centre\u2019 setting you’d nonetheless have a near-perfect semi-staging in fashionable garments. Front and centre \u2013 virtually actually \u2013 all through the opera was Michael Volle\u2019s exceptional Wotan. Remembering that I used to be listening by means of loudspeakers, it was a marvel of stage presence, vocal manufacturing and verbal readability. Occasionally there even was a Lieder-like high quality to Volle\u2019s singing and he gave a nuance portrayal of somebody who was as soon as smug and is now browbeaten and more and more bitter. He ends virtually as mentally broken as the themes of his experiments. Equally spectacular was Vida Miknevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117\u2019s Sieglinde sung with thrilling abandon and coronary heart on her sleeve emotion, and he or she proves herself to be one other unimaginable actor. Mika Kares sang Hunding with biting menace while unleashing the darkest of bass tones. Claudia Mahnke introduced a simple authority to a domineering Fricka giving Wotan no likelihood to win their combat. Robert Watson was a reliable Siegmund and his tenor voice had dramatic virality, although I’ve heard the function sung significantly better. Finally, Anja Kampe\u2019s \u2018Hojotohos\u2019 have been virtually a cry for assist and he or she remained often shouty, although elsewhere she introduced radiance and expressive shading to her impulsive Br\u00fcnnhilde. The enthusiastic Valkyries have been the standard eclectic mix of voices.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the stage photos Christian Thielemann focussed on the color and majesty of Wagner\u2019s rating. He maintained a flawless management of line, in addition to ebb and movement, even when some tempos have been noticeably slower than we could also be used to as of late. All in all, he turned Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em> right into a virtuoso piece for the Staatskapelle Berlin.<\/p>\n

Jim Pritchard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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