"What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To answer it, the film explores how Ludwig van Beethoven's innovations continue to have an impact far beyond the boundaries of classical music, 250 years after his birth.
왕자 타미노는 폭군 자라스트로가 밤의 여왕의 딸, 파미나를 납치해갔다는 사실을 전해 듣는다. 파미나를 구하기로 결심한 왕자는 여왕으로부터 마술피리를, 동행자인 새잡이 파파게노는 요술종을 받아 악당의 소굴로 향한다. 하지만 그 곳에서 밤의 여왕의 말과는 달리 자라스트로가 의로운 철학자라는 사실이 밝혀지고 타미노는 그 일원이 되기 위해 여러 시련을 거치기로 약속한다. 파파게노와 함께 감옥을 탈출한 파미나는 마침내 타미노를 만나지만 침묵 수행 중인 그가 말을 하지 않자 버림받았다고 오해를 하게 되는데...
Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars’ production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost dematerialised setting bared of all earthly contingencies whilst Bill Viola presents the lovers’ initiatory quest for nirvana in videos detached from the stage, suspended like altarpieces.
A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge. Is there just one thing that proves to be too much for Franz Woyzeck, or is it an accumulation of miseries and torments of a wretched existence? Woyzeck is perhaps not so much a bleak account of how miserable life can be as how much strength is required to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life and how delicate and fragile a balance the human psyche rests on.
This production of Hans Werner Henze's opera Upupa & Der Triumph der Sohnesliebe features Laura Aiken, John Mark Ainsley, and Alfred Muff in lead roles. Markus Stenz conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker. Live at the Salzburg Festival 2003.
