2023-06-06 14:52:11
CRITICISM – The Philharmonic and that of the Concertgebouw have again shown the high quality of their sounds.
Special envoy to Amsterdam.
This is a clever show offered by the German director and filmmaker Philipp Stölzl at the end of the Amsterdam Opera season. The idea? Transform fairy opera Undine by Dvorak, in fable on the impossibility of escaping from the universe to which one is assigned.
Rusalka is no longer an aquatic creature but a young girl growing up in the American underworld of the 1930s against a background of drugs and prostitution, and dreamed of by Hollywood movie posters. The great love with the star of the film against the background of a glamorous decor will only be an illusion.
Often humorous, the transposition is more skilfully decorative than psychologically profound, and if the show is entertaining, it struggles to upset, relying a little too much on a virtuosity of images that will at least have thrilled the public.
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