FULL MARIE (Germán Alonso) Madrid 2021 Xavier Sabata, Nicola Beller Carbone
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Marie
- Composer: Germán Alonso
- Libretto: Lola Blasco Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro real, Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Xavier Sabata, Nicola Beller Carbone
- Conductor: Germán Alonso
- Orchestra: Orquesta Teatro Real
- Stage Director: Rafael R. Villalobos
- Stage Designer: Emanuele Sinisi
- Costume Designer: Rafael R. Villalobos
- Lighting Designer: Felipe Ramos
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Teatro Real
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: myoperaplayer FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Inspired by the iconic character of Wozzeck, Marie delves into the struggles of a single mother facing her sexual freedom, who ends up being stoned by society and murdered by her lover. Thus, if Georg Büchner’s work and its counterpart, Wozzeck by Alban Berg, are considered the tragedy of contemporary man, Marie presents the tragedy of contemporary woman.
As if in a trial, we learn about our protagonist through both the testimonies offered and the author’s fictional creation of a character who is silenced prematurely, in a work where the superposition of planes blurs reality. Marie represents a deconstruction of Berg’s composition, a paradigm of 20th-century music, as well as a return to the origins of opera as a genre intrinsically linked to Greek tragedy, understood as an amalgamation of artistic expressions with the aim of becoming a social tool.