Alceste (Schweitzer)

The staging of this rare work opened the festivities for the re-opening of the world famous Anna Amalia library in Weimar (burnt down in 2004) in October 2007. It was Duchess Anna Amalia herself who had commissioned Anton Schweitzer (music) and Christoph Martin Wieland (libretto) to write this opera in 1773. Schweitzer and Wieland reduced Euripides' drama to four characters (inventing Alceste's sister Parthenia, a fulminant coloratura part) and focussed the story completely on the social and private issues and questions on life and death.
Concerto Köln played conducted by Michael Hofstetter, the productions was by Hendrik Müller, designed by Mira Voigt. Simone Schneider, Cyndia Sieden, Christoph Genz and Josef Wagner took on the demanding roles.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• schweitzer
• wieland
• alceste
• weimar
• anna
• amalia
• hofstetter
• hendrik
• müller
• schneider
• sieden
• genz
• wagner
• euripides
• herkules

[Penserosi]

!!! Perfekt !!!

Ich habe die Aufführung in Weimar erlebt. In allem perfekt, Orchester, Sänger, Bühnenbildt. Wunderbar.

[joaomacdowell]

I really like the staging.

[tenore23]

This is getting tiring. Every other stage director thinks that by giving the soprano a scarf and sunglasses ad the chorus business suits, all of a sudden the piece acquires relevancy.

I loved the singing, even the music, but he staging? Please, it is as boring as what all the reggie directors say traditional stagings are: boring, unimaginative, everybody i doing the same. Why bother?