DAS GEHEGE (Wolfgang Rihm) Berlin 2024 Vida Miknevičiūtė
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Das Gehege
- Composer: Rihm Wolfgang
- Libretto: setting of the final scene from Botho Strauss’s Schlußchor
- Venue & Opera Company: Ohilharmonie, Berlin, Germany
- Recorded: December 7 & 8, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Vida Miknevičiūtė
- Conductor: Simone Young
- Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Digital Concert Hall
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: Digital Concert Hall FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Programme:
Wolfgang Rihm
Das Gehege. A nocturnal scene for soprano and orchestra
Vida Miknevičiūtėsoprano
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1st version from 1872)
Before the concert and during the intermission: Simone Young in conversation with Matthew McDonald
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