In Berlin gets Hölderlin in the Swingers Club

Hardly a German composer Wolfgang Rihm not once, is so well networked as the former Berlin, Hamburg, Salzburg and Munich's current manager PeAnd so they all came, the mover and shaker in the music business, the publisher, Stipendienauslober, festival director, theater leaders, lobbyists press, especially from his past and current work locations in Berlin's Linden Opera, to his years announced Hölderlin "opera to pay homage. Uncritically, but also a dutiful little guilty was desolate after two hours of nonstop applause, albeit spiced by a few stubborn in their emotionality almost liberating Buhse.

In the immediate run-up to this premiere was also fueled by the public has been led legal skirmishes, which the librettist and half a year ago disassembled Linde opera manager Peter Mussbach with his former employer about changes in the text provided.
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That went up to embarrassing, Premierentag most popular e-mail between Schimpftiraden Mussbach and Ruzicka, where the latter "verbalized Drogentrip" his text online supplier and cancels a former men's friendship is definitively in ruins aufging.

Mussbach was also in "Hölderlin" program labels as well as the State Opera's website withdraw his name leave; for other printed matter as for the beamer on Bebelplatz, the building on the side announcing the evening's program, the term but no more.

It was still outside Mussbach it, but officially no longer inside it. What still seems too much. Fortunately, nobody Mussbach rampant directions to this unausgegorenen, in dandyhaftem Weltekel between Hölderlin and Houellebecq wälzenden apocalypse scenario presented.

For all the high-level language to drain the word jargon switch pods and common places this sinistren Reigen between pensioners murder in front of the television, apocalyptic mood in the gym, in Swingerclub or in the Arctic can not exceed pained smile as a small kitchen table philosophy from the Decline of the West dismiss.

No Etna, nowhere

As colleague Bruno Maderna itself in 1964 when "Hyperion" has operated, had now "The Death of Empedocles' with further quote wreckage, as well as Beckett and Rilke as a text block saddled with suppliers. Etna, no, no, wohinein you how tough this lava from further bonded Bedeutungswust not spoken quotes and absurd, silly scene instructions may have been disposed of.
Originally it was as director Mussbach also planned. The hurry committed Torsten Fischer stood helpless in the face of the whole. Uninspiriert, but routinely has been here such a thankless task as impossible visualization discarded. Herbert delivered Schaefer interchangeable set pieces cloned residential honeycomb as a limit and the compulsory courses at sub-pools for the coming Nasseffekte always good.

Andreas Janczyk picked from the pool of bourgeois 19th Wardrobe for centennial of Dietrich Henschel as pathosgesättigtem replacement Empedocles quoted anonymous 13, but completed aufopferungsvoll singer roles. The actor hinzuerfunden 13, the present, but also further challenged by Mussbach, the word jumble certainly understandable Hölderlin making referrals spoke, as well as a Statistenschar times came in black uniforms in recent times look at leisure.

A Madonna icon was herabgelassen and dragged through the water, grid protestgeschwungen. But mostly endured this placebo human race rigidly upright or lying damp opera his fate.

It goes around the whole opera

Peter Ruzicka, who this boring evening at the lectern of the following animated Staatskapelle board of directors, wants to "Hölderlin", as well as in 2001 during his first "Celan" experimental music in Dresden, not disdainful tone biography, the great opera sondernd whole.

"An experiment" he calls Carefully, his history of every writer, philosopher umnachteten in Tübingen tower refuseniks experimental arrangement. Instead, Hölderlin by lengthy instrumental prologue to the endless epilogue seasons with three tourists as far above based high cultural leniency for current, of course, only verklausulierten World saddled with pain.

However, the composer sounding nothing really unusual, touching, poignant, or at least hold opposite. Never has Peter Ruzicka as so etikettenlos and smooth, so intangible, perhaps unassailable as presented in this piece.

The partially electronically backed "Hölderlin" with his usual, the apparatus extended percussion orchestra, reflects like a soul-less scanner composing the possibilities today. He adds he did not add, yes he did not even own sound. There have been diligently and with much effort precast cluster from the DIY sound, avant-garde department Cuddle Assembled, covered with a teflonartigen Lamentoschicht, with their strings unisonoartigen land sediert. That ranks it then, to matured never closed form, but developed no rough charm of the fragments.

Just as the text and staging targeted revolts and disasters with their shadow-free as follow-politicians, managers and rebels schemes to Klimaklimax in the dramaturgical get a grip, the music manages a clear stance, or at least a pitched impetus. This all remains verkopft so subtle, so well-behaved conventionally, that it can be cold.

Hölderlin is not in his stone prison visible, but the isolated ivory tower of the contemporary German music mauert this aufgeplusterte Todgeburt from the start. Come into the closed, enemy, one might say the maximum.ter Ruzicka (60). Because many owe him a favor, he will be regularly listed.