Cavalieri - RAPPRESENTAZIONE di ANIMA & di CORPO - Oper Frankfurt / Bockenheimer Depot
Musikalische Leitung
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Michael Form
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Inszenierung
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Hendrik Müller
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Raum und Kostüme
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Claudia Doderer
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Video
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Dirk Schulz
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Mitarbeit Regie
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Johann Diel
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Anima
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Kateryna Kasper (AYNpmn)
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Corpo
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Julian Prégardien
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Tempo / Consiglio
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Sebastian Geyer
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Intelletto
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Francisco Brito
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Angelo Custode / Eco
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Barbara Zechmeister
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Vita mondana /
Anima beata
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Maren Favela
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Mondo / Anima dannata
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Vuyani Mlinde
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Piacere
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Vasily Khoroshev
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La Vecchia
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Ursula Stampfli
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Gli uomini
| Ensemble Barock vokal
der Hochschule für Musik Mainz
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Video of the complete production on request - for theaters only.
“... Hendrik Müller's imaginative and visual staging, which amazed again and again, is captivating. He turned the late medieval mystery play [...] into a stage play, which definitely speaks also to the audience of the 21st century ... "
(Bettina Keller - Main-Echo)
“… In his staging for the Frankfurt Opera in the Bockenheimer Depot, director Hendrik Müller puts the main burden of the exams on Anima; and at the culmination point of her torments, fierce superiorities are fighting for the bounded, on the ground lying Anima.
The allegorical representatives (such as time, pleasure, the guardian angel, good advice) are brought down so far from their "antique shoes", that they are able to appear as real characters. The Madrigalist, an 8-singers strong vocal-ensemble reaches into the burlesque, buffoonish in trench coats and hats, cunningly emerging from theater slots ... "
(Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich - Opernwelt)
“... The human being is a bipolar being - Hendrik Müller staged Cavalieri's <Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo Anima> (Game of Soul and Body), which had it's world premiere in 1600, as a timelessly contemporary theater of the world. [...] Especially since Cavalieri and his librettist Agostino Manni did not simplified equaled soul with 'good' and body with 'bad', but rather formulated the connection between the two as a necessary basis of human existence. Hendrik Müller's production for the Oper Frankfurt in the Bockenheimer Depot sharpens this image. Both protagonists are shown as referring to each other. They go through a painful process of experience and alienation, wrestle with each other, move away from each other and have to laboriously find each other again on a vertiginous ramp or a fine line ... "
(Ulrich Boller - Frankfurter Neue Presse)
"… <Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo, The Game of Soul and Body> is the most beautiful discovery of this year's opera season. I have seldom seen and heard such a graceful interplay of music, voices, movement, costumes, color and light effects ... "
(Werner Müller-Esterl, Frankfurt Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung)
“… Director Hendrik Müller stages the work varied and visually impressive. Therefore, that the non-stop, almost two-hour performance is captivating from the beginning to the end. Thunderous applause for the visually and musically successful combination of old and new ... "
(Markus Gründig - kulturfreak.de)
“… In his stage direction, Hendrik Müller avoids the index finger, also in favor of subtle humor - right up to the hearty 'Easter laughter '. The scene, frozen repeatedly in tableaus, culminates in the struggle for soul and body, a tug war in the literal sense of the word; and a power-sapping effort for many actors in this remarkable production ... "
(Klaus Ackermann - Offenbach-Post)
"... Hendrik Müller finds excellent pictures for Cavalieri's work, which is quite bulky in terms of content ..."
(Thomas Molke - Online Music Magazine)