Rusalka, set in a bathroom
OperaIs there no limit to the ennui-ridden ingenuity of German opera houses?
This is the money-shot from Kornél Mundruczó’s production of Antonin Dvorak’s mermaid opera at the Berlin State Opera, with Christiane Karg in the title role.
Captured on Dvorak’s immortal line: ‘where’s the toothpaste?’
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola/Staatsoper unter den Linden.
Going tomorrow and curious to see if she is up to the role.
Nothing we can do about the Eurotrash production.
nothing as Germany has been run down for a long time, lousy education due to bad schools run by lousy teachers most from Green party, bad universities ranking low and politicians like the overrated nonsense Mrs Merkel has shown and sticked to it for much too long without doing anything except ruining Europe – best is to avoid German operas and theatres
It really is amazing how many people show up here to offer one quick comment tangentially related to the article at hand, followed by a torrent of right-wing talking points.
Curious, I’d say….
Time to pull the plug on it.
God forbid it should tax the creativity of a director/producer to set it in its original context…
That would be called in today’s parlance a “traditional” staging and would not qualify for filming. Ergo, out of the question.
or government grants in the United States
or grants from major U.S. foundations since 2020.
Given the precipitous decline in standards of singing today I think it is quite appropriate to give star billing to a ….. toilet.
At least a toilet is close by when the urge to retch suddenly happens …
The Water Closet sprite. Does she come out?
The scenes with her father must have been uber creepy.
Of course, not as creepy as when the father rapes his daughter in the Munich production.
The Rusalka in Santa Fe last summer was pretty euro-trashy too, plus the soprano wasn’t any good.
My favorite Rusalka Gabriela Benackova would not have put up with today’s insane opera directors.