On the Hamburg State Opera on Sunday, new creative director Tobias Scratch premiered “Monster’s Paradise,” a intentionally exaggerated opera concerning the present demanding situations of our time. The song comes from Olga Neuwirth, who additionally wrote the libretto in conjunction with Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek.
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Within the musical theater, which makes use of finances from the Grand Guignol Opera, an 18th-century French theater of horror, Neuwirth and Jelinek’s avatars, each and every with an actress and a singer, seem because the vampire duo Vampy (Sylvie Rohrer, Sarah Defries) and Bumpy (Christina Stanfeld). Horrified via an international threatened via local weather trade and a despotic ruler, they pass to earth to warn.
There, the king-president (Georg Niggle) reigns in a glittering, tasteless golden palace. It’s simple to acknowledge him as a parody of the American President Donald Trump. On a utopian island, the King-President meets his adversary, the ocean monster Gorgonzilla (voiced via Anna Clementi and portrayed via Vanessa Konzok). British appearing legend Charlotte Rampling seems by the use of video as “Goddess,” which could also be a cautionary story.
The song alternates difficult sounds with extra cinematic melodies. The stark political gruesome depends upon sturdy, now and again fairly putting imagery to in the end conjure up the apocalypse.
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