at the Salzburg Festival on 12 August 2003 in a co-production with the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Teatro Real, Madrid, staged by Dieter Dorn, set by Jürgen Rose conductor Markus Stenz
Действующие лица и исполнители:
Badi'aet el-Hosn wal Dschamal, a Jewish girl soprano Laura Aikin The demon tenor John Mark Ainsley Al Radshi baritone Alfred Muff Malik, the ancient Sultan of Pati mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz Dijab, the old tyrant of Kipungani bass Gunther Missenhardt Al Kasim (‘the Sharer’), Al Radshi’s youngest son baritone Matthias Goerne Adschib (‘the Wayward’), another son, a good-for-nothing countertenor Axel Koehler Gharib (‘the Untrustworthy’), another son, a sly fox bass Anton Scharinger
Synopsis
Al Radshi, an old man, who lives in a tower on Manda, the island of the black baboons, laments the absence of his golden bird, a hoopoe that used to visit him daily. Al Radshi once reached out to touch the hoopoe, which caused it to fly away. Since then, the bird has not been seen. Al Radshi asks his three sons to go off on a quest to find the hoopoe and return it to him. Two of the sons are untrustworthy and lazy, but the third, Al Kasim, is honest and brave. Al Kasim is the only son to go off in search of the hoopoe.
Al Kasim does find the hoopoe, with the help of a demon, who is a fallen angel with tattered black wings and who has been barred from heaven for an unidentified crime. Al Kasim then has to find and rescue a captive princess, Badi'eat el-Hosn. He does so, and falls in love with her. His next quest is to find a magic chest.
After Al Kasim has obtained these three treasures, the other two brothers reappear and push Kasim and Badi'aet el-Hosn down a well. Those two brothers return to their father and claim credit for performing Al Kasim's acts. However, Al Kasim and Badi'aet el-Hosn are eventually rescued. The other two brothers are expelled from the island. Al Kasim cannot marry Badi'aet el-Hosn, however, until he completes one more quest. The opera leaves unresolved the question of whether Al Kasim and Badi'aet el-Hosn are united at the end.
Продолжительность: 01:06:58 + 01:15:02 AVI 694 МБ + 678 МБ
Посмотрел и послушал, сравнительно серенькая по музыкальному воплощению опера, достаточно мало интересных моментов, по большей части не хватает рельефности и запоминающихся эпизодов. Сам сказочный сюжет довольно банален и хотя певцы-актеры вроде и стараются по мере своих возможностей что-то изобразить, но сама довольно не яркая, написанная композитором, вокальная партия героев оперы не дает особо блеснуть.
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