Kosher meal for biorobot. Richard Strauss's opera Salome Review / Day staged by Alvis Herman

Shabbat shalom! On Friday, February 21, the Latvian National Opera held Richard Strauss Salomes Premiere. There was no peaceful, happy evening and could not be. In the interpretation of director and stage designer Alvis Herman, the biblical psychotriller will take place at Raud's Masonry in Jerusalem literally to the 2030s, or 5791 in the year after the Jewish calendar. « The Israeli country may no longer exist, » warns the titles on the screen in the top corner of the stage.

There is no reason to alarm – Alvis Herman's social network recordings are not broadcast, with Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss, the commentator of the commentator. All the more information is businesslike and accurate, only the facts: « According to UN rules, Jerusalem and its holy sites can still visit all denominations believers and tourists. Recently, the University of Jerusalem has created an artificial intelligence robot/humanoid named Johanan, programmed as an ideal person and future prophet. His further action is no longer predictable. « 

They look good together

Throughout the show, the Jewish men, who are behind Salome and her mother Herody, pray to the crying masonry – apparently five years later, there will be no division in the men's and women's prayer sector, as is the case today. Otherwise Salomes The future future is similar to our present. It is not difficult to believe that the Jewish princess from London – (not) mortal genius Eimy Wainhaus, whose art will live forever – hopelessly falls in love with Biorobot in Johannan. People are so dehumanized that this superhero – shiny and strong as Robocop – causes extremely strong feelings in Salome/Amy. Believe it or not, they look good together, but Johanan brittle Salomi brutally rejects. If the sound is turned off, it is possible to think that they are Tatyana and Onegin, who have met on a business trip to the promised land.

The real Amy Wainhaus sought the truth, sincerity and sincerity in her short life. Her ghost has visited Alvis Herman staged In the secrets of Kabbalah At the new Riga Theater, and her image Luigi Kerubini Opera Media The performance in Brussels was used by director Kšštofs Varlikovsky (Medea/Amy was portrayed by German soprano Nadja Michael). At the premiere of the Latvian National Opera, Salome/Amy was a German soprano Astrida Kesler, who urgently had to leave Inna Klochko. Astrida Kesler did the most impossible – she first climbed on the LNO stage on February 18th at. In the 15 attempt and the next day, Richard Strauss's opera title in front of the general rehearsal audience was dazzled. Astrida Kesler seemed to participate in the competitions of Amy Wainhaus in the Amya Wainhaus, a 100 % hit in the image. The role of Salome is known to her, in December Astrida Kesler participated in Salomes Produced in the Flemish Opera in Antwerp. The guest artist's singing at the premiere in Riga was not perfect, but the dramatic fulfillment and dedication were so shockingly intense that Astrid Kesler became the hero of the evening.

The role of a believer, stubborn and limited biorobot Johanan was delighted by Bass Baritone Egils Siliņš, whose vocal force shook the foundations of the Earth at the crying wall. It is a gesture of a self -ironic head of the Latvian National Opera – to appear on the stage evening in the most spiritual costume, which could be envied by any science fiction or animated superhero movie character. This is John the Baptist who is claiming a role Star WarsTo, in the way, In transformers and Toys in the story at the same time.

Drama is rhythmically turning, the Jews continue to pray at the crying masonry, and they are not worried about them – they live in another dimension. In the title, the young Syrian Narabot is unable to forgive Salome for her passion for the humanoid and commit suicide by blasting – this is the Code of Muslim man's behavior.

The preamble to the law of life

The multimedia content that is screened on the screen is important in the show – Alvis Hermanis has attracted not only natural but also artificial intelligence. It was entrusted to create Salomes Inspired illustrations. In this image kaleidoscope, the portraits of various monsterity beauties alternate – digital prerafaelite paintings manifest in innocence and perpetuation, and these virtual sexy dolls are empty, glassy eyes. Such Saloms see artificial intelligence. Only a slightly more compliment is the image of Johanan – the hybrid of Jesus Christ and the terminator. Artificial intelligence all around sows a frightening Kitsch Richard Strauss orientally accompanied by a stunning music. The LNO Orchestra, under the guidance of conductor Martins Ozolins, plays ecstatically glamorous and achieves a psychedelic effect appropriate to the director of Alvis Herman.

Salomes The climax is Seven -veil dance – In this show, the dance looks as if it was staged by artificial intelligence if the program Chatgt would be given an indication: « BajadereTo, in the way, Sheherezades and Bahchisaraja fountains The guest performance of the cordalet at the Rauda Masonry. « In 2030, it will definitely look anachronically, but the audience attracts the attention of Jewish men to pray and turns against dancing virgins with a face. Colorful in a silver container.

Salome More than any other work of Richard Strauss allows the directors to play politically, religious, erotic and esoteric. David Macvikar brings Salomi Pierre Paolo Pazolini into London, Klaus Berlin is a cruel psychoanalysis session, Ivo van Hove in Amsterdam gives an orgasmic poetry, Christopher Loya Loyc Invites to a crazy party, Oscar Wilde, Kishtof Varlikovsky depicts the Jewish community on the eve of the Holocaust, Romeo Castelluci in Salzburg praises the aesthetics of sensuality, Lydia Steier emphasizes décanding, violent sex and power. The tragedy of Salomes is fully introverted, Erzan Mondang in Antwerp and Gente creates a hyperticized totalitarianist in a fancy Minsk, Cornel, in Mundro Geneva, connects the neurotic expression of Richard Strauss with modern issues in the US.

Alvis Herman has caught his own Salomes the wave. Psychosis is a wiring tuner, the globe is a tossed balloon tossing at your feet. The silver container will not stand empty, the biorobotes will come together in the sacrament. The show lives on beauty and disgust, speed and slowness, eternity, and one -time, retro and futurism – they are not the end, Salome There is a preamble to our only laws of life.