What a great combination: summer holiday trip, last opera performance of the season and a totally new opera composer for me! All this I experienced, when I saw Luigi Dallapiccola’s only full-length opera “Ulisse” (Odysseus) in the Frankfurt opera.
Even though the opera tells the story of Odysseus,
Dallapiccola has made a version of his own of his travels. In this story
Odysseus still travels for decades and meets obstacles before he returns to his
home in Ithaca, but there is also a lot of deep contemplation of life and its
meaning in it.
The opera is from 1968, so it is modern and I was not fully
won over by the music. It may well be that that was due to the fact that the
music was too difficult for me, but at times the orchestra played some
interesting bits. The director Tatjana Gürbaca had made a performance that was
typical for German opera – rather modern with nothing new and earth-shattering.
Everybody in Germany has seen these group sex scenes: it is really time to come
up with something totally new.
My favourite soloist was Katharina Magiera, who sang the
roles of Circe and Melantho. She had a gorgeous, full alto voice, which was a
pleasure to listen to. Not that the other singers were bad, she just was so
much better.
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