Wagner comic? Why not!

Premiere of "Helikon-Opera" opens and this little-known Wagner - young, ironically inclined serenity. So it turns out that the new specialization theater Dmitry Bertman - open to the public, often with the opera. "The prohibition of Love" based on Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," wrote 22-year-old Richard Wagner.'s First experience of the romantic opera effort emotional and sparkling Italian and French opera school, commedia dell'arte and passionate Neapolitan song "The prohibition of love" shows how Wagner verge Offenbach (then unknown 18-year-old boys) came, and why he did not become. From the gloomy and overcast Shakespeare author completely removed all the dire moral and transfer the action to a conditional joyful island Palermo living eternal carnival and the construction of the Palace of Happiness. To speak the Gospel of Matthew, "measure what you use is measured with such" Wagner illustrated transient intrigue in the spirit of the sitcom. Viceroy Friedrich (samoironichno your people!) Banned all fun and free love in fear of punishment. And the people of Palermo save the first victim of the decree - Claudio. Sham ascetic Frederick seduces beautiful Isabella, and sends him to his place former mistress of Frederick. Is exposing the public morality of the ruler, the judge asked him the same law. But the law is repealed, all dancing and singing. Svetlana Sozdateleva (Isabella), Alex Santa (Frederick) in the treatment of Bertman Wagner ideal state in which the fate of the People's Assembly of the ruler decides, won visible signs of the theater Bertman. Builders in helmets, chewing "Doshirak" walking around with a small volume of the chapter "Arhnadzora" with sets by Austrian artist Hartmut Schörghofer similar former mansion Glebovs-Streshnevo Shakhovskoy-with raged recent urban debate on the construction of "Helikon-Opera". And the final curtain falls, and it opens with the image of the pressure of the future of the theater. I must mention that the premiere theater to be opened in the new location? Even the conductor goes to the overture from a running drill. Holidays are more like the gay parade: half-naked young men in shorts with Lurex, goths, dancers. And Frederick - hypocritical official, buttoned in loengrinovskom golden helmet with wings. Every word heed journalists with cameras. Score a "prohibition of love" bears little resemblance to the usual Wagner -. It is based on the comic duo, in which the characters sing based on the different intention Many familiar comic opera and burlesque tongue twister exercises that require vocal virtuosity. In this case, there to hear the overture powerful strokes of the future German genius - sweeping sequences, depressingly repetitive melodic line, roll the colorful strings and brass. A scene from the play is equally obvious that Wagner would never Offenbach - he absolutely does not come easily and in a good way dizziness, Wagner too cumbersome and also grounded in the development of the secondary issues. Where operetta maestro would have even tasted a short verse and expressiveness - Wagner carefully build collateral subject line. A scene from the troupe of "Helikon-Opera" is the successful implementation of its master plan. Artists come in farce elements, as in the home. No vocal difficulties are not observed, although visible in the dynamic fragments "heavy weight." But it plays a cheerful nun torn Dostoevskys passions martyrs, slow the action - this is the most affected by Svetlana Sozdateleva as Isabella. It's simple and charming intones Vadim Flyers as Claudio and especially praise Alexander Kiselev as Friedrich. Guru KEN photo of theater