FULL THE LION’S FACE (Elena Langer) Stara Zagora 2019 Ignat Zhelev, Lilyana Hodzheva, Neli Necheva
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THE LION'S FACE
- Composer: Langer Elena
- Libretto: Glyn Maxwell Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Stara Zagora State Opera, Bulgaria
- Recorded: 2019
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Ignat Zhelev, Lilyana Hodzheva, Neli Necheva, Inna Andreeva, Teodor Petkov, Prolet Pencheva
- Conductor: Yury Ilinov
- Orchestra: Stara Zagora State Opera
- Ballet: Stara Zagora State Opera
- Choreographer: Carlos Rod Santos
- Stage Director: Morten K. Roesen
- Stage Designer: Asya Stoimenova
- Costume Designer: Asya Stoimenova
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Morten K. Roesen
- Date Published: 2019
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Have you ever encountered an elderly person who doesn’t remember recent events? Does your grandmother seem to live in another world where she thinks that you are a part of her childhood.
The opera gives a unique peek into the life of a person suffering from the mysterious disease. We encounter how a wife loses her beloved husband to the disease, and she becomes unrecognizable to him. He simply doesn’t remember her and is stocked in his old memories from his childhood while the more recent memories have vanished. At the moment there is no cure, no medicine, no light in the end of the tunnel for the family and the close people around him/her.
The music, acting, singing and choreography are all elements which are creating the atmosphere of the Alzheimer’s patient, and the people around him, his wife, the caregiver, her daughter and, of course, the doctor. The idea of the composer Elena Langer and the librettist Glyn Maxwell is that the Patient is an actor and has only spoken lines while the other characters are singing. What a strange universe to encounter for the patient? He speaks while the others are singing.
The message of the opera is that we should be able to accept and forgive each other whatever happens when we might undergo a change while getting older.
Quoted from Opera Stara Zagora