This summer’s Montepellier Festival features an infrequent outing for Mascagni’s dubious opera, Iris, in which the heroine has a Freudian dream of getting molested by an octopus and ultimately gets stripped naked on a public balcony by a brothel keeper.
Not a happy ending.
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No stranger than an Omniscient Sea-Shell, after all 😉
…who is appearing at the Deutsche Oper Berlin three times in March/April (not nude).
Of course, not nude! 😉 Or else, what would be the point of the shell? ;))))
Well, it’s not a dream. More of a childhood trauma. Iris tells that when she was a child she saw in a temple a picture painted on a screen depicting a girl on a seashore being “molested” and killed by an octopus (a reference to the famous erotic print by Hokusai “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife?wprov=sfla1) A monk explained to her that the octopus represented Pleasure, which leads to death.
Since it is only a concert version of the opera we will hardly see any nudity on stage
Interesting that Yoncheva’s brother, Marin Yonchev, a famous Bulgarian rock singer. has also a part, and of course the conductor Domingo Hindoyan is Yoncheva’s husband.
She should kick the monster in the tentacles. That should do it!