As long as this resurrection has not been proved and tested: hands off the Volksoper, if you take my advice. In September, a new manager is taking over, and maybe he will succeed in what has to be a real resurrection of a once interesting theatre. The Volksoper has the third consecutive manager now (all short-term, of course) who has been totally unsuccessful, and the theatre is as run-down as never before in its more than 100 years history. Oh well, nice performances at the Vienna Volksoper! That must have been years ago. Irina Mishura is just that type of singer if you are lucky enough to hear her!! The better the singer doing Carmen, the better the performance. A sultry Carmen can make you understand why that soldier boy decided to desert afterall. However, with Carmen, I think the situation is clear. The music in either one is good enough to preclude the necessity of knowing exactly what is going on. If you want a really serious opera, then try to find a performance of Carmen or La Traviata. After the 3rd go round, the singer/actress doing Valencien signaled NO MORE. The audience howled and cheered until the conductor granted two encores.
STOTZ OPER V IENNA FULL
The trumpets in the orchestra stood up and blasted away with full gusto.
The woman singing the role of Valencienne and the 6 Grisettes (7 dancers in all) danced it. We attended performances of Die Fledermaus and Die Lustige Witwe (Merry Widow.) The music was lively, well sung, and the audience was into it.įor example at the beginning of the last act of Die Lustige Witwe, the producer had interpolated Offenbach's CanCan music into the production. HOWEVER, for the performances that were the most fun where I really enjoyed myself were as at the Volksoper in Vienna.
My favorite performances are of Carmen (2 times) and Turandot at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
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