Is the photographer Lee Miller suitable as an opera heroine? – Diepresse.com
Star mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey and actress Romy Louise Lauwers sing and play the war photographer Lee Miller in the state opera nest from Sunday. A ambiguous matter.
On Sunday evening in the nest in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the child and youth location of the Vienna State Opera, the order opera « Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub » is premiere. Written by Maarten Seghers for « Two women and a few unimportant men », staged by Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). The starting point is the life of the surrealistic artist and war photographer Lee Miller (1907–1977). The American became famous for her extremely close, direct recordings that she was embedded in the US Armywhen the Allies invaded Germany.
Just a few hours after she saw the horrific and photographed in the liberated concentration camp Dachau, she came to Munich, where soldiers celebrated Adolf Hitler in the apartment of the now dead. Lee Miller got rid of her boots and military clothing there and had her colleague photographed in the bathtub. An iconic photo of which Lang knew who prompted it. And that the woman, who seems to be posing almost lasciviously in the bathtub of evil, was herself a photographer. Lee Miller, who in the “Vogue“Published, withdrew after the war.
