Peter Konwitschny has put on a staging in Trier of two Bach cantatas, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (BWV199) and Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig (BWV 26).
Here’s how it looks.
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Any video?
It seems to be another attempt by Regietheater to destroy cultural heritage.
Seriously, isn’t it time that Konwitschny is going to talk to someone?
According to one of my German flies on the wall, mr K visited the Berlin therapist Dr Hofstängl, specialist in Regietheater, but the result was that Dr H had to put himself under treatment of his collegue Dr Rohrschach, specialist in clinical depressions.
Right down there with Fiordiligi’s pointless striptease in Peter Sellars’ ghastly “Così fan tutte”.
No, thank you.
And the decay continues…
It seems pretty pointless to attempt to judge a production by a single image. Unless, that is, you’ve all seen the staging?
Here’s a bit more than a single image (although not the whole cantata/staging):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0c-GfN5R2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Y1JFhMcTk
Personally, I think I shall continue to enjoy Bach cantatas without stagings tacked on.
The premiere in Germany is yet to come. For those of you in fear that the cultural heritage is going to be destroyed it will good news that most of the planned performances have been cancelled (http://www.trier-reporter.de/falsche-welt-dir-trau-ich-nicht/). A trailer can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0c-GfN5R2o. There is a review from the NZZ (http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/buehne/peter-konwitschny-inszeniert-bach-zuletzt-stirbt-auch-die-hoffnung-ld.86621) in German language. Konwitschny seems to be a very pessimistic person, neither believing in humans nor in love nor in anything else (based on what I have seen from him so far).
How narrow minded ! Ive seen the production. It was amazing !!
… Hmm, if it’s Magdalenas, I think I might stick with Magdalena Kožená and J. E. Gardiner (for “Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut”, the lovely filming in the cathedral in Wales on Gardiner’s DVD of cantatas from 2000 – feels a bit more being on like solid ground, or otherwise not earthbound at all, depending on one’s point of view! That said, I do genuinely enjoy Herr Konwitschny at times, though – the DVD of his “Tristan und Isolde” staging for Munich’s National Theatre can be great fun if one’s in the right frame of mind for it (… granted, it’s really not necessarily for all tastes), and the production itself seems to have been running for years and years, so in its own way it’s almost like it’s a classic now!
Poor taste from a credit-snatcher.