Twighlight of The Debts after Götterdämmerung Athens 2017
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Twighlight of The Debts after Götterdämmerung
- Composer: Wagner Richard, transcribed by Kharálampos Goyós
- Libretto: Richard Wagner, libretto by Dimitris Dimopoulos Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC, Greek National Opera, Athens, Greece
- Recorded: October 2017
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Julia Souglakou, Dimitris Paksoglou, Tassos Apostolou, Yanni Yannissis, Myrto Bocolini, Irini Karaianni
- Conductor: Kharálampos Goyós
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director: Alexandros Efklidis
- Stage Designer: Alexandros Efklidis
- Costume Designer: Constantinos Zamanis
- Lighting Designer: Melina Mascha
Information about the Recording
- Published by: gno tv
- Date Published: 2017
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: gno tv FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The controversial opera in paraphrase Twilight of the Debts which launched the first official season of Greek National Opera’s Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center comes to GNO TV. It is a radical adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods, transcribed by Kharálampos Goyós, based on a libretto by Dimitris Dimopoulos and directed for the stage by Alexandros Efklidis.
The length of Wagner’s original 5-hour work has been reduced by half and brought down to chamber format, with 11 singers and a 9-member musical ensemble taking the place of the massive Wagnerian orchestra and chorus.
Besides the reduction of the opera’s original dimensions, this production puts forth a version of Wagner adjusted to the Greek imaginary, with a new libretto in Greek, thus turning the original work –already rich in political reflection– into an explosive political melodrama raising questions about the contemporary European reality, just as Wagner did in his own turbulent era. This distinctive reading of Wagner’s masterpiece is ably supported by a cast consisting of several of GNO’s leading actor-singers.
Twilight of the Debts is the third operatic paraphrase by the creative team of Kharálampos Goyós, Alexandros Efklidis and Dimitris Dimopoulos. The first two, Yasou Aida! (after Verdi’s Aida) and AirRossini or We Are the 1% (after Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims) met with great success in Berlin, Thessaloniki and Athens, opening the way to more experimental operatic readings.
Filmed at the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC on 12 & 14 October 2017. Greek, English and enhanced leitmotif subtitle tracks available.