The Love of Danae: Deutsche Oper Berlin
Over het evenement
Although "The Love of Danae" was not Strauss' last work it has all the charactristics of a "final word" and reflects Strauss' own resignation with the world in the 1940s.
The opera – in a very free treatment of the mythological basis – deals with Princess Danae, who is to be wed to a rich suitor as the last economic hope of her bankrupt father Pollux. Instead of the expected King Midas, however, Jupiter appears after assuming the form of Midas. After some wavering back and forth, however, Danae does not succumb to his enticements and decides in favour of the real Midas even though he has apparently become a poor man. Jupiter thereupon renounces his love of mortal women. – At the heart of the work is not so much the princess as the aging god's parting with the world, having to accept that mortals have evaded his influence. Against the background of the bankrupt nation Eos, which sinks in chaos, the opera, at the same time, portrays the time of its own origin.
Sung in German with German surtitles
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Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Kirsten Harms
Stage design: Bernd Damovsky
Costume design: Dorothea Katzer
Light design: Manfred Voss
Chorus master: William Spaulding
Jupiter: Mark Delavan
Merkur: Thomas Blondelle
Pollux:Burkhard Ulrich
N. N. (09.04.2016)
Danae: Manuela Uhl
Xanthe: Adriana Ferfezka
Midas: Stephan Rügamer
Four Kings: Paul Kaufmann
Four Kings: Clemens Bieber
Four Kings: Thomas Lehman
Four Kings: Alexei Botnarciuc
Semele: Nicole Haslett
Europa: Martina Welschenbach
Alkmene: Rebecca Jo Loeb
Leda: Annika Schlicht
Chorus: Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
