An inept piece, a lackluster manufacturing – and really restrained applause: The Bavarian State Opera has already began the brand new season extra brilliantly than this yr. Target audience enthusiasm for the brand new manufacturing of “The English Cat” via Hans Werner Henze was once restricted.
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Director Christiana Lutz takes the myth with the younger other folks of the Munich Opera Studio about cult-organized cats who band in combination to shape the vegetarian “Rat Protection Society” and gifts it because it was once meant: as a satire and parable of all-too-human hypocrisy and brutality.
The characters do not put on cat mask, however costumes that may be from the Sixties/70s. That is the tale of the younger Minette (who won essentially the most applause in conjunction with the conductor Katarina Winkor: Seonwoo Lee), who’s married to Lord Puff (Michael Butler), the president of the one superficially idealistic society, falls in love with the violent cat Tom (Armand Rabot) and can pay along with her existence and that of escaping from society.
Therefore’s opera, which might had been 100 years outdated subsequent yr, will probably be introduced within the environment of the London the city corridor or on its roof. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” via Tennessee Williams sends his regards.
Some spectators left all over the intermission
“This piece is like a friend you have to fight for, but in the end you stick together like bad luck,” director Lutz, spouse of famous person tenor Jonas Kaufmann, advised Züdeutsche Zeitung concerning the fairly unwieldy piece general. Then again, this connection didn’t appear to be obtrusive some of the target market. Some took their hats and coats all over the smash and left.
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