J. Reinvere - MINONA / World-Premiere - Thater Regensburg
foto: Jochen Klenk |
Musikalische Leitung
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Chin-Chao Lin
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Inszenierung
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Hendrik Müller
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Bühne
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Marc Weeger
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Kostüme
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Katharina Heistinger
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Dramaturgie
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Julia Anslik
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Minona
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Theodora Varga
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Josephine Brunsvik /
Minona als junge Frau
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Anna Pisareva
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Gräfin von Goltz
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Vera Semieniuk
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Baron von Stackelberg
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Adam Kruzel /
Seymur Karimov
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Marie
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Esther Baar
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Leonore
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Deniz Yetim / AYNpmn
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Graf von Teleki
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Johannes Mooser
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Attila de Gerando
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Deniz Yilmaz
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Vilma
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Ayumi Futagawa /
Andrea Dohnicht-Pruditsch
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Gabriel
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Thomas Lackinger /
Roman-Ruslan Soltys
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Weitere Vorstellungen:
Further Performances:
2.02. / 18.02. / 26.02.2020
09.04. / 15.04.2020
11.05. / 30.05.2020
Video der kompletten Produktion auf Anfrage - nur für Theater.
Video of the complete production on request - for theaters only.
Kritiken / Deutsch
(Mittelbayrische)
„…Hendrik Müllers Inszenierung folgt dem traditionellen Prinzip des so genannten Regietheaters in Deutschland, bei dem der Regisseur neben dem Originalwerk seine eigene Parallelarbeit schafft. Bühne und Bühnenbild bewegen sich zwischen der Gegenwart und dem 19. Jahrhundert [...] ein Kameramann, der ständig auf der Bühne ist und dessen Aufnahmen in Echtzeit auf einer Leinwand über der Bühne zu sehen waren [...] Details und Nuancen wurden hinzugefügt, wie Hinweise auf die Beethoven-Pianistin Elly Ney, die auch eine Nazi-Sympathisantin war. Bestimmte dramatische Szenen wurden verstärkt, wie die Bestrafung von Minona durch Baron Stackelberg oder die spirituelle Krise, die sich dem Wahnsinn der alten Minona nähert, als sie eine Dose Schlaftabletten schluckt….“
(Muusica)
"...Die Bühne dreht sich vom Salon zur Bibliothek, pietistisch karger Räumlichkeit, vergitterter Psychozelle bis zur Mini-Kabine und Gruft. Irgendwo steht immer der Flügel, als Symbol der Musik Beethovens und der Musik schlechthin. Beethoven selbst ist nur als Büste präsent.
Reviews / English
“… at the end, <Minona> by Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere was not that crazy and dada-like as announced; even if director Hendrik Müller tried hard to keep adding satirical accents in the somewhat brittle work.
Temporarily, Hendrik Müller let perform all composer-legends from Händel to Wagner, and staged a thoroughly entertaining panopticon, in which there also was space for the barred cell of a mental hospital. Set-designer Marc Weeger had designed a lot of Beethoven plaster busts and sanctuaries, quasi a nightmare of bondage and admiration. In addition, Müller let play texts by pianist Elly Ney, who after 1933 not only offered herself to serve the Nazis, but also was the founder of an insane Beethoven cult ... "
(BR / Bayerischer Rundfunk München)
“… Director Hendrik Müller tries hard to spice up the piece and makes sure that, despite the meager musical output, at least the opera doesn't get boring: The start with the Beethoven descendant from Mauricio Kagel's Beethoven movie is nice, later on, a bathtub full of Beethoven busts refers to "Ludwig van". But above all, Müller combines Minona's obsession to her father with the questionable Beethoven cult by Elly Neys. He not only plays excerpts from her confused texts (from 1942), the old Minona herself bears the traits of the pianist, who put her art in the service of the Nazi ideology.
In Müller's interpretation, Minona looses her mind. Accordingly to this, in the rotating stage-setting (Marc Weeger)with a large opera house panorama as background, a cage is dominating the stage, in which Minona / Elly Neys is locked away. A huge organ towers above it, and sometimes Minona herself, sometimes revenants of Bach and Handel (inaudibly) are playing it. Sometimes, other heroes of composers such as Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt or Wagner assemble at the piano for a Beethoven soirée.
Minona’s imagined interlocutor Leonore, in real life her neurologist, apparently secures with a signature the inheritance of the patient, who committed suicide, for herself - a detail that is hardly understandable without knowledge of the difficult disputes between the Brunsviks and the Stackelbergs. And she (Leonora / neurologist) simply shoots the the servants (here Commedia-dell-arte figures) who want to barter away the Beethoven-Josephine letters, Andreas Erb provides further optical action with a very good live camera-work-black-and-white-pictures, which suggestively were projected suggestively..."
(nmz / Neue Musik Zeitung)
".... <Minona> would need little bit of an ordering dramaturgical hand, but director Hendrik Müller chooses the way of overloading. At the beginning, he shows a film scene by Mauricio Kagel in which a farmer in a field asserts to be the only descendant of Beethoven – and any biographical certainty is gone. This is great. Grisly whereas, the figure of Elly Ney, the crazy pianist who was as enthusiastic about Hitler as she was about Beethoven, haunting through the performance with many words.
The stage turns tireless, historical figures - Brahms, Liszt, Wagner ... - forming tableaus, video moves closer to the figures, Theodora Varga passes away realizing that she, Minona, was just a shadow in the midst of beautiful dreams of great men. How sad, how touching and unfortunately true..."
(SZ / Süddeutsche Zeitung)
"... Despite its historical location, the story gains a poignant topicality, especially because director Hendrik Müller knows, how to stage the psychological torments of this woman, very expressively sung and played close to madness by Theodora Varga, drastically, although sometimes a little bit too pathetic.
Opera becomes a psycho thriller ... "
(Donau Kurier)
"... The staging, designed by the team around director Hendrik Müller, with piano, organ including organ pipes, metal cage, library corner and numerous creative details is quite captivating, which is also due to the well thought-through motion sequences, including the revolving stage. Live streams enrich the picture ... "
(O Ton)
"... <A life that purifies itself>
Reinveres' idea of combining the Minona riddle with the Beethoven cult is brilliant. He deposited the beginning of the 2nd part after the break with the sound of Beethoven’s string quartets.
Director Hendrik Müller took up this idea and decided to take it further. He combined the figure of old Minona with the figure of old Elly Ney, who, from time to time, liked to read Beethoven’s Heiligensadt last will during her piano soirees. Unfortunately, her belief in Beethoven's authority also led her to believe in Hitler. But Hendrik Müller denounces neither Minona nor Elly Ney. Instead he shows their endangerment, their tragedy. Why do people talk about Beethoven? <It is a riddle about him, attractive and repulsive at the same time>. It is the riddle of an authoritarian personality, that is disclosed here.
And since there is no faith without contestation, also drugs are involved. <Mir ist so wunderbar> - the quartet from <Fidelio> plays an important role in Reinveres opera. And Minona trusts the <Fidelio> Leonore - neither Beethoven nor Minona the in the quartett praised happiness of marriage was granted. In Hendrik Müller's production, Leonore (Deniz Yetim) is the doctor who helps Minona with pills and syringes to endure her pain. And the quartet is lilted in a round of poker. On Marc Weeger's revolving stage, all the surreal scenes slide past the audience, ending in Minona's extinction. Also Reinvere's music also has such a sliding character, and seldom shows off […]
So the audience is watching fascinated a soul analysis that goes far beyond the interest in an hypothetical daughter Beethoven’s.
A Bechstein grand piano, an organ, a grating, a prayer room, a library, a narrow corridor, a staircase - the revolving stage offers many changeable rooms. Particularly funny, the tableau at Beethoven’s anniversary celebration: around the grand piano with a Beethoven bust in the middle, all the (male) composers, who are adored by the concert audience: Mozart (with Mozartkugel), Brahms (with beard), Humperdinck (with gingerbread), Schönberg (with a tennis racket), Mahler (with Alma), etc. In the organ gallery, Handel tries out the violin of the Waltz King Strauß. Such ironic moments are questioning the religion of the arts. <Music is just the faint reflection of God's bright grace>, Minona objected. Her pietistic father had beaten her into giving up herself: <A person has to be strict against himself, has to overcome himself. Otherwise the ego takes over the life that is supposed to be led by God's word> ... "
(Klassikinfo)
“... A surprisingly strong moment, especially in the costumes, was the only color-intensive scene; because with the disappearing of the colors, also the inner glow of the characters disappears […]
Musically, the second act is more powerful, but also scenically more confusing [...] the finely floating flutter of the violines at the end suffocates in the dust of a last broken Beethoven bust ... "
(Hundert11)
“... But the most remarkable thing is the equation of Minona with the controversial pianist Elly Ney. Müller intertwine Minona's search for herself as a successor of the genius with this artist, who was courted by the Nazis and who saw herself as the high priestess of the Beethoven-cult. On the one side the alleged biological daughter, on the other side the alleged daughter in spirit - this gives the piece a special twist that functions as a subtle contribution to the Beethoven year. With this more than respectfully and also provocative production the Theater Regensburg succeeded more than respectfully in the Beethoven-year. Let others play the already known <Fidelio> and symphonies ... "
(OVB)
"... In Hendrik Müller's direction, further associations are added to the libretto, written by the composer himself. The public not only hears audio-text-quotations from pianist Elly Ney, who worshiped Beethoven in a ritual manner, but the aging Minona herself seems to merge with this high-priest Beethoven’s... "
(Mittelbayerische)
“… Hendrik Müller's production follows the traditional principle of the so-called <Regietheater> in Germany, in which the director creates his own parallel work alongside the original. The stage and sets move between the present and the 19th century […] a cameraman is constantly on the stage and his recordings were projected in real time on a screen above the stage […] Details and nuances have been added, such as references to the Beethoven pianist Elly Ney, who also was a Nazi. Certain dramatic scenes were intensified, such as the punishment of Minona by Baron Stackelberg or the spiritual crisis that approaches the madness of old Minona when she swallows a can of sleeping pills ... "
(Muusica)
"... The stage rotates from the salon to the library, to a pietistical sparse room, a barred psycho cells, to a mini-cell and to a crypts. The grand piano is always somewhere, as a symbol of Beethoven's music and as a symbol for the music itself. Beethoven himself is only present as a bust .
As an old and desperate woman, Minona, Beethoven's illegitimate daughter, looks back at her life, which in her memory merges all the time jumps to a chronologically flow; and zoomed via a live-camera, the spectators are able to participate closely in the psychological processes, displayed under the action level, because this opera is not about a biographical documentation, but about the psychological depths of a woman who does not know, who her real father is ... "
(Schabel Kultur)
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