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FULL Diary of the One Who Disappeared Paris 2007 Michael König
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Diary of the One Who Disappeared or Zápisník zmizelého
- Composer: Janáček Leoš
- Libretto: Josef Kalda Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera Garnier, Paris, France
- Recorded: 2007
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Michael König, Hanna Esther Minutillo, Hye-Youn Lee, Letitia Singleton, Cornelia Oncioiu
- Conductor: Gustav Kuhn
- Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opera national de Paris
- Stage Director: La Fura dels Baus, Alex Ollé, Carlos Padrissa
- Stage Designer: Jaume Plensa
- Costume Designer: Jaume Plensa
- Lighting Designer: Guido Levi
Information about the Recording
- Published by: France TV
- Date Published: 2007
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, frsubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Review from NPW
The staging of the Diary was simple and basically, apart from searing spotlights, horizontal. The Man‘s head was alone at first, brightly lit on a black stage. It was later joined by the Woman, not a gypsy but a whore in hot pants, a red satin blouse and black patent, platform-soled, high-heeled shoes. As things hotted up, near-naked dancers crawled in from the wings to form a sea of writhing flesh around the hole; and when the Man sang of now hurrying every evening to the clearing to gather strawberries, hands rose out of the hole to caress his bare torso, implying that “strawberries” was a euphemism for multiple liaisons, not just with the gypsy/whore and mother of his son.