Wim Wenders, 71, makes a successful opera debut
mainThe celebrated film director was cheered to the rafters last night in Berlin, at the end of Bizet’s Pearl Fishers. Wenders has been pursued for years by Bayreuth to stage an opera, on one occasion pulling out at the last moment.
It took Daniel Barenboim to entice him onto the opera stage, to great acclaim.
No reviews in yet.
Too bad the musical material is trifle.
“No reviews in yet.”
Maybe there aren’t any English language reviews yet but there have been German reviews for one or two days now.
For example, Maria Ossowski of rbb finds that “Wim Wenders turned the Pearl Fishers into a jewel” and Volkmar Fischer of BR-Klassik thought it to be “irritatingly dilettantish”.
Sorry, I meant to include the quoted reviews.
Maria Ossowski, rbb:
https://www.rbb-online.de/kultur/beitrag/2017/06/premiere-staatsoper-berlin-wim-wenders-perlentaucher.html
Volkmar Fischer, BR:
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/premierenkritik-perlenfischer-staatsoper-berlin-wim-wenders-daniel-barenboim-100.html
Both fail to mention the 77-year-old Nourabad:
Let’s hear it for … WOLFGANG SCHÖNE
Thank you, is there a way to watch it on line or has it been recorded?