Kaufmann’s wife and Salome’s fishnet tights
OperaChristiane Lutz, wife of the international tenor, is staging Richard Strauss’s Salome in Lübeck.
In a rare interview she explains her concept:
In the dance of Salome with Herod, her fishnet stockings play a major role. They are part of the seduction, but also part of the entanglement between the two. You don’t know who is binding whom here. When Herodias finally brings the severed head of Jochanaan in one of those fishnet stockings, that means many things: in relation to Salome it establishes the connection between dance and the demand for murder, in relation to Herodias it is a recapturing of this erotic accessory, in relation to Herod it is an inference to the consummated patricide.
More here.
Once again, heed John Bercow’s words on the sexism of referring to prominent women by their husbands’ names: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-43556887.
Christiane Lutz had a career before meeting Kaufmann, and she still has her own career.
She is his wife as much as he is her husband and that’s it. Mrs.Christiane Kaufmann and Mr.Jonas Lutz. I agree that Christiane Kaufmann is little bit more famous than Jonas Lutz. But who knows what might happen in the future.
I challenge you to find just one article – one – that refers to Kaufmann as “Lutz’s husband” in the headline.
By any other name, he would bake the same fake Xmas cookies.
Are they, at least, silver fish net stockings?
That only happens in Rosenkavalier.
Herr Kaufmann should give up his operatic career altogether and devote himself to supporting his wife s. She seems a brilliant director. His artistic time is up, her time has just begun.
“Jochanaan grows out of Salome’s own shadow when he first appears. This stepping out of Salome implies that the power of Jochanaan is in some way also the power of Salome. She ponders what if she had the power to open the cistern and draw the unspoken and repressed to light. Jochanaan is also her alter ego, her stronger self – her self-image freed from attributions.” This might reflect also the dynamics of the Kaufmann couple. She needs him to keep his top position in the business whatsoever in order to find her own strength herself. Good luck!
You Mr Bloom, have always got a lot to say for yourself on the subject of Jonas Kaufmann, and it is usually derogatory. I wonder if you have time in your life for anything else!
Yes, the older I get (I’m 65) it seems quite extraordinary to me the lack of self awareness in peoples criticism. JK is very fine singer/musician/artist, enjoying a long career and giving audiences pleasure, inspiration and discovery. Yet you have many people sniping, trying and failing to bring him down. Here’s a bit of advice to consider. Turn your gaze inward. What do these amateur critics suffer from?Unhappiness in various ways and by varying degrees. In other words take care of your own life. Put your energies into making yourself happier. JK being an intelligent man will not be affected by these powerless and negative projections. He will listen to his closest family and colleagues, not the hot air and white noise referred to above. Merry Xmas and happy listening.
You have massively over-egged this pudding.