Julie first Italian
Philippe Boesmans
closes an opera season by winning and courageous choices.
There's all the drama of Strindberg in the new staging of the opera in one act "Julie" by Philippe Boesmans, national premiere at the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano. If the interest of the Belgian composer looks at the intelligibility of speech and therefore the importance of the text, signed by the director Manfred Schweigkofler has the advantage of enriching this theater, coloring meanings of the drama Miss Julie. Where the music accompanies the breaking linear narrative of the dreams of three characters, never overpowering the dialogue, the scene is full of symbols, building on the verticality of el'orizzontalitĂ hear Jean, Julie and Kristin. On stage, a narrow and deep ramp, where it all begins and will end, immersed in a dark forest of birch true. This is the magical landscape, a place that leaves no way out, because the forest is the cage, such as siskin of this right from the start at center stage. And in the woods there is the orchestra, who wears the boots of the Count, looming presence, expressionless, wearing masks of society: those who look without revealing their identity. Among the interesting ideas Schweigkofler is the reinvention of the character of Kristin: the only one to know where and who he is, in a balance that will bring even the lead against the couple Jean-Julie. Applause for performers, great singers-actors, and the young orchestra of the Accademia Neue Musik Bolzano, with precise gestures and energetic live by Joana Carneiro.
monique ciola