Críticas a Siegfried de Lepage

Mais críticas a Siegfried no MET, 2011, desta feita uma crítica desfavorável...


“I cannot mend Nothung!” laments Mime in the first scene of Siegfried. Unfortunately, with three-fourths of the Met’s Wagnerian saga now presented to the public, one begins to wonder if anyone can mend Robert Lepage’s occasionally striking, but mostly disappointing Ring."

É assim que começa o artigo de Olivia Giovetti em OPERAVORE.

http://www.wqxr.org/#/blogs/operavore/2011/oct/28/much-ado-about-nothung/

SIEGRIED - Metropolitan Opera, 2011

A récita que vimos em diferido no sábado foi fabulosa, e a ópera Siegfried, de Richard Wagner, é daquelas de que se pode dizer: quanto mais a vejo , mais gosto dela!

E digo isto porque nela os mitos fluem, das Eddas, dos gregos e do xamanismo de muitas culturas e religiões. O encontro de Erda com Wotan-Wanderer, no terceiro ato, é um dos mais belos momentos da tetralogia... Um dos aspetos que me impressionaram nesta encenação de Lepage foi a capacidade que o encenador demonstrou relativamente a clarificar os meandros da ação das personagens, desvendando a magia profunda de Wotan e de Erda, as duas criaturas que forjam os destinos do mundo, e que teimam em querer alterá-lo a seu favor...

  http://www.wagnermania.com/Mitos/index2.asp?Id=1401 

Odin - Arthur Rackham

Wotan- Wanderer (um fabuloso Bryn Terfel) , Siegfried, MET OPERA, encenação de Robert Lepage, 2011
Em baixo: Erda (Patricia Bardon num vestido deslumbrante...), Siegfried, Met Opera, encenação de Robert Lepage, 2011

DeMille: Four Frightened People(1934)

Poster e créditos de abertura de Four Frightened People, de Cecil B. DeMille, 1934

Mais uma deliciosa extravagância de DeMille...

WINIFRED

Do New York Times:

A Widow’s Might
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By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
Published: March 11, 2007

In 1915, the 18-year-old Fräulein Klindworth married Siegfried Wagner, and thus became part of the most prominent — not to say scary — cultural dynasty in the Kaiser’s Reich. And yet she wasn’t even German. Born Winifred Marjorie Williams, she became German by adoption after she was sent from a Sussex orphanage to Berlin to be looked after by elderly distant relations named Klindworth.

Perfil inconfundível...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/books/review/Wheatcroft.t.html?pagewanted=all

Wagner Opera: Robert Lepage’s Siegfried at the Met

Wagner Opera: Robert Lepage’s Siegfried at the Met: In part three of Metropolitan Opera's new Ring production by Robert Lepage, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts.

http://wagneropera.blogspot.com/2011/11/robert-lepages-siegfried-premieres-on.html

Siegfried - A Máquina

Notícias do MET, via VALQUIRIO:
valkirio: Siegfried - A Máquina: Cena final d' A Valquíria A máquina voltou a fazer das suas . (...) At the performance on Tuesday night a malfunction prevented the set from creating the proper configuration for the final scene between the title character and Brünnhilde, when Siegfried awakens her from sleep amid perpetual fire around her and they sing a love duet, the Met said in a statement.
The singers, Jay Hunter Morris and Deborah Voigt, performed the scene in an area at the front of the stage. (...)

http://valkirio.blogspot.com/2011/11/siegfried-maquina.html

O Navio Fantasma em 1843

Primeira representação de Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) em Dresden 1843


(Fonte: Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, 3 Janeiro 1843)

Max Lorenz e Wagner

Max Lorenz (1901-1975). Parsifal.

Tannhäuser em Bayreuth (2011)

Este ano, o Tannhäuser em Bayreuth excedeu todas as medidas...

«Bayreuth’s Tannhäuser: Recycled Trash

Newsflash: Wartburg is a world-wide recycling company, at one with the universe, wherein everything and everyone exists in a perfectly sustainable environment.»

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2011/08/bayreuths_tannh.php

Bayreuth 2012

Para o ano, em Bayreuth, a principal novidade parece ser a nova encenação de O Navio Fantasma, com direcção musical de Christian Thielemann.

«La principal de ellas será la nueva producción de El holandés errante, que podrá disfrutarse en seis representaciones a partir del 25 de julio de 2012, día de inicio del Festival. La labor escénica ha sido encargada al joven director alemán Jan Philipp Gloger, de treinta años, que se acerca por primera vez al universo wagneriano. De hecho, su labor se ha desarrollado principalmente en el mundo del teatro (Brecht, Goethe, Shakespeare, Schiller, Camus…) y no fue hasta el pasado año cuando hizo su debut en la lírica con Las bodas de Fígaro, de Mozart, en el Teatro de Augsburgo.»

http://www.wagnermania.com/noticias/noticias.asp?id=091101

O Ring em 3D

'Ring' cycle, including 3-D 'Siegfried,' dominates Metropolitan Opera's new season
« The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will be dominated by its new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, including "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung" as well as three complete cycles scheduled for April and May 2012. The company said "Siegfried" will feature 3-D technology as part of the production's digital video projections.»

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/02/ring-cycle-including-3d-siegfried-dominates-metropolitan-operas-2011-12-season.html

Notícias Antigas

From The Times
September 14, 2009

The South Bank Show: The Wagner Family; The Last Nazis; Spiral

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6833756.ece

Parabéns, Mr. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille ( nascido em 12 de Agosto de 1881)
Uma efeméride injustamente esquecida.

Os Dez Mandamentos (1923)

A capa de Cine-Miroir em 1924, a propósito do filme de CecIl B. DeMille, Os Dez Mandamentos.

Tannhäuser em Bayreuth (2011)

«A pregnant Venus, a Wartburg transformed into a biogas plant breaking down organic matter, a Venusberg filled with caged subhumans right out of the original Planet of the Apes, and Wolfram von Eschenbach singing the well-known "Song to the Evening Star" while taking a dump sitting on a toilet. What does this have to do with Richard Wagner's romantic opera Tannhäuser? Nothing! As expected, the audience shook the very foundations of the Festspielhaus with their booing after the performance. The verdict? This new production by Sebastian Baumgarten scored another Bayreuth opening night triumph!»
Excerto de Vargas, Vincent  em http://wagneroperas.blogspot.com/2011/07/biogas-at-bayreuth-new-tannhauser.html

                                             Tannhäuser, Bayreuth, 2011

Samson and Delilah (1949) - posters de época

Mais um belíssimo cartaz de Samson and Delilah (1949), com Mature e Lamarr.

DEMille: Fotos

Cecil B. DeMille e Heddy Lamarr nas filmagens Samson and Delilah (1949)

Ilustrações de Wagner

Ferdinand Leeke - Wotan e Brunhilde, 1908

Ilustrações de Wagner

Ferdinad Leeke, 1859-1925,  Tannhäuser

Ilustrações de Siegfried

                                            Ferdinand Leeke, 1859 - 1925, Siegfried