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FULL DAS GEHEGE (Rihm) Tokyo 2012 Naomi Satake
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Das Gehege
- Composer: Rihm Wolfgang
- Libretto: final scene from Botho Strauss’s Schlußchor
- Venue & Opera Company: Sogakudo Hall, Tokyo, Japan
- Recorded: May 28, 2012
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Naomi Satake
- Conductor: Zsolt Nagy
- Orchestra: Geidai Philharmonic Orchestra
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Zsolt Nagy
- Date Published: 2017
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A woman comes out of the darkness. It is night and the woman is alone. She arrives at the zoo. She speaks to the golden eagle in his aviary, takes a knife, frees the bird and admires the eagle’s body. She challenges the eagle to attack her. She mocks it. The more she irritates the eagle, the closer it comes to her. When the woman realilzes how old and powerless the bird is, she feels superior to it. The eagle pounces on her; she kills it.
The subtitle of Wolfgang Rihm’s Das Gehege is A nocturnal scene: a setting of the final scene from Botho Strauss’s Schlußchor. This three-part theatre piece was written for Bayerische Staatsoper as a companion piece to the one-act opera Salome by Richard Strauss based on Oscar Wilde. With ironic detachment, Rihm stages a monodrama interspersed with orchestral interludes, which borrows some of the motifs from Salome and contains many other allusions to German theatre, music and history. There are echoes of the German national anthem as well as Beethoven’s Ninth, which was ever-present at the time of reunification. The protagonist of the play was born in the GDR and is a supporter of the monarchy. On the historic night of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, she comes into conflict with herself and her dreams – symbolized by the eagle as the German heraldic animal – full of yearning and anger, until there is nothing left of the erotic, national euphoria of reunification.
Quoted from Digital Concert Hall