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