Saturday, October 4, 2008

Melancholia

2.10.2008 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Interesting performance of an entirely new opera: Melancholia is narrating one day in the life of Lars Hertervig, the talented, enigmatic but highly suffering South-Norwegian painter while he was in Düsseldorf striving with his talents and doubts (Ich kann malen!) and fell in forbidden love with Helene Winckelmann, the step-dauhter in the patriarchal Winckelmann house where he rented a room.
It is performed during the Ultima festival in Snøhætta's white new opera in Oslo.
The libretto by Jon Fosse and music by Georg Friederich Haas, a young Austrian composer. I experienced excellent singers! and triggering new compounded music by Haas.

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