I love when people make comments about an entire production based on a 15-minute segment posted on YouTube. I saw this twice over the summer and yes, it is difficult to grasp as first, and wasn't without its ludicrous moments (anyone remember the Vegas-style showgirls in Act II?) but it was quite brilliant. It's just a difficult concept to sustain throughout an opera as long as 'Frau'.. thank God though for VPO/Thielemann and Herlitzius.
@drewski67 : Googling brought me to a review: concept . . . . the recording studio of the first commercially produced DFOS (still a brilliant recording.) I'm not faulting VPO/Thielemann. Still, there IS competition, Solti/Studer being a standout. The opera is a fantastic fairy tale THAT DOES NOT TAKE PLACE IN A RECORDING STUDIO. This is basically a "staged" concert performance and I have a feeling that the great Leonie Rysanek would have laughed for arse off over this stuff. EUROTRASH.
Help! Is the concept that of a run-through rehearsal of Strauss's great opera? Or is it "recording rehearsal" that we are witnessing? Or a combination of both? The nurse a parody of our worst concept of a nice German hausfrau before she joins the Nazis? This will NEVER erase my memories of the superb Met production from the 1960s and it seems no match for the splendid video from Salzburg with a hair-raising Studer. What is the purpose of distancing an audience from the authors intent?
Wow - knocked my socks off - never felt the nurse's contempt and fury like I did here - East German recording studio circa 1963? - bingo - tension is palpable, suitably sinister and threatening - very much in keeping with the building dread of this scene. Can't wait to see the rest of us. Thanks for uploading - you're a peach!
this production did not work inside the house, all those petty details went vorbei. Musically yes! was superb. could we wish for frau Meier as die Amme, her last new role?
Thanks for posting this!! I loved this production, I watched it on the screen outside the dome and loved every second of it. I guess people who have never lived in Germany/Austria would understand that unconventional stagings are needed because you can only see the same traditional staging so many times. Personally I loved this concept, at first I was confused but as it continued I was totally captivated by it!!! The music and the acting was also superb in this production!! Thanks for posting!!
@operanut - What a crass comment - I too am glad that you don't live in Europe which, please remember, is the home of European culture. I saw this production: the score can rarely have sounded better and the singers were worthy of the VPO/Thielemann realisation, while the staging was never less than thought-provoking - assuming, of course, that you have any thoughts to provoke.
I'm glad that I don't live in Europe because the proliferation of ridiculous concepts which make no sense is quite staggering. Eurotrash rules there - give the old-fashioned Metropolitan Opera (remember the 1966 production?) Pity is that the singing is really good.
Eine musikalische Sternstunde!!!!!! BRAVA
HotOneNbg 1 month ago
I love when people make comments about an entire production based on a 15-minute segment posted on YouTube. I saw this twice over the summer and yes, it is difficult to grasp as first, and wasn't without its ludicrous moments (anyone remember the Vegas-style showgirls in Act II?) but it was quite brilliant. It's just a difficult concept to sustain throughout an opera as long as 'Frau'.. thank God though for VPO/Thielemann and Herlitzius.
drewski67 4 months ago
@drewski67
All right. Explain the concept please.
nogrits4me 4 months ago
@drewski67 : Googling brought me to a review: concept . . . . the recording studio of the first commercially produced DFOS (still a brilliant recording.) I'm not faulting VPO/Thielemann. Still, there IS competition, Solti/Studer being a standout. The opera is a fantastic fairy tale THAT DOES NOT TAKE PLACE IN A RECORDING STUDIO. This is basically a "staged" concert performance and I have a feeling that the great Leonie Rysanek would have laughed for arse off over this stuff. EUROTRASH.
nogrits4me 4 months ago
@nogrits4me If you read her interviews, you can basically say, that she would have laughed. :D
askdhg 2 months ago
Help! Is the concept that of a run-through rehearsal of Strauss's great opera? Or is it "recording rehearsal" that we are witnessing? Or a combination of both? The nurse a parody of our worst concept of a nice German hausfrau before she joins the Nazis? This will NEVER erase my memories of the superb Met production from the 1960s and it seems no match for the splendid video from Salzburg with a hair-raising Studer. What is the purpose of distancing an audience from the authors intent?
nogrits4me 4 months ago
Wow - knocked my socks off - never felt the nurse's contempt and fury like I did here - East German recording studio circa 1963? - bingo - tension is palpable, suitably sinister and threatening - very much in keeping with the building dread of this scene. Can't wait to see the rest of us. Thanks for uploading - you're a peach!
bronxbearbud 5 months ago
this production did not work inside the house, all those petty details went vorbei. Musically yes! was superb. could we wish for frau Meier as die Amme, her last new role?
aslom44 5 months ago
4 mal vorort gesehen, 4 mal begeistert.
p911c32 6 months ago
Many thanks operazine for sharing. This is youtube at its best, linking great art to aficionados around the world.
Wish there were more Herlitzius, though.
pproust 6 months ago
Thanks for posting this!! I loved this production, I watched it on the screen outside the dome and loved every second of it. I guess people who have never lived in Germany/Austria would understand that unconventional stagings are needed because you can only see the same traditional staging so many times. Personally I loved this concept, at first I was confused but as it continued I was totally captivated by it!!! The music and the acting was also superb in this production!! Thanks for posting!!
operatears 6 months ago
@operanut - What a crass comment - I too am glad that you don't live in Europe which, please remember, is the home of European culture. I saw this production: the score can rarely have sounded better and the singers were worthy of the VPO/Thielemann realisation, while the staging was never less than thought-provoking - assuming, of course, that you have any thoughts to provoke.
06MJA 6 months ago 2
I'm glad that I don't live in Europe because the proliferation of ridiculous concepts which make no sense is quite staggering. Eurotrash rules there - give the old-fashioned Metropolitan Opera (remember the 1966 production?) Pity is that the singing is really good.
operanut 7 months ago in playlist Die Frau Ohne Schatten
What an incredibly boring staging for such a fantastic work of fiction. Good singing will not save such a dumb concept
rcfgodoy 7 months ago 2
Thank you so much for a chance to see at least some of this production!
bakednudel 7 months ago