FULL THE MEDIUM (Maxwell Davies) Hamburg 2022 Constanze Hosemann
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Medium
- Composer: Davies Peter Maxwell
- Libretto: Peter Maxwell Davies Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany
- Recorded: September 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Constanze Hosemann
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Daniela Victoria Kiesewetter AUSSTATTUNG MEZZOSOPRAN : CONSTANZE HOSEMANN
- Stage Designer: Nimsuc Vargas
- Costume Designer: Nimsuc Vargas
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTUbe FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Every story has more than one side. With each narration, the story is revived…but never exactly repeated. Consciously or unconsciously, we change details and perspectives when telling the story, shape our story with all the encounters and experiences we have had in our lives and adapt it to our listeners.
In her production of Peter Maxwell Davies The Medium, director Daniela Victoria Kiesewetter deals with the trauma of the main character. As an audience, we live through and reflect on a section of her memories together with the actress. The medium is caught up in her own experiences and cannot escape them as we embark on a quest to find the true me and lose ourselves in the chaos we call “self”.
Musically, Davies’ composition is a great challenge for the singer, who embodies various characters alone on stage without instrumental accompaniment, a confrontation with the past and with herself. But who are these characters? Are they different personalities of our medium? Is it spirits who want to warn you about something or remind you of something? Or is it just different perspectives of a constantly repeating story?
Confronted with all facets of our character, the boundaries between reality and appearance, between I and you, become blurred, an endless search for what makes us us.
Do you know who you are?