DIE KAHLE SÄNGERIN (Luciano Chailly) Dresden 2022 Peter Tantsits, Dilara Bastar, Doğukan Kuran
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Die kahle Sängerin
- Composer: Chailly Luciano
- Libretto: based on the play by Eugène Ionesco, German by Josef Heinzelmann
- Venue & Opera Company: Semperoper Dresden, Germany
- Recorded: January 16, 2022
- Type: Other
- Singers: Peter Tantsits, Dilara Bastar, Doğukan Kuran, Anna Kudriashova-Stepanets, Jennifer Riedel, Martin-Jan Nijhof
- Conductor: Thomas Leo Cadenbach
- Orchestra: Projektorchester
Information about the Recording
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, gensubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A married couple is sitting comfortably in front of the domestic fireplace. You discover that you live near London and your name is Smith. Later, the Martins arrive and find out that they are married to each other. The fire chief and the maid Mary also know each other and the bald singer – she still has the same hairstyle! »The Bald Singer« is Eugène Ionesco’s first play (1950) and the prelude to the ›Theatre of the Absurd‹. From a collection of domestic scenes full of nonsense, situation comedy, pseudo-clichés and pointless anecdotes, an »anti-piece« full of linguistic acrobatics and wit is formed. Together with Ionesco, the Italian composer Luciano Chailly (1920-2002) wrote the libretto for the opera of the same name and in his composition captured the character of the characters and their relationships with a plucked quintet, light, vain and dance-like, a solemn string quintet or a more coarse-toned one wind quintet. In Semper Zwei, the opera rarity, which premiered in Vienna in 1986, can now be experienced in its German premiere.
Synopsis
It’s 9 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are sitting in front of their fireplace and are expecting the Martins. When they arrive, they find out that they are probably married to each other and happy to have finally found each other again. Mary doubts this is really the case. The couples are talking when the fire chief enters. He is looking for a fire and complains to those present that there are fewer and fewer fires to put out. The hosts invite him to stay and entertain them with funny anecdotes. The maid Mary, who likes to tell anecdotes about her life, would also like to tell a story. She recognizes her first friend in the fire chief and happily throws her arms around his neck. On the way out, the fire chief asks about the bald singer. She still wears the same hairstyle, he is assured.