Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the review is in German. Since it's late on election night, I'm not going to try to make a sensible (logical and in standard English) translation just now.
With a strong reading comprehension of German, you'll get more detail than I did. However, with Google translate's literal translation, we can get some idea of how the evening went.
With a strong reading comprehension of German, you'll get more detail than I did. However, with Google translate's literal translation, we can get some idea of how the evening went.
For now, I think it's safe to say that the direction was strong:
One could fill pages with innumerable well-observed human weaknesses, attitudes, complexes and phobias that Marthaler carefully developed from the gestures, the facial expressions, the body language of his people.*
And the singers, orchestra and director did a great job. The
production itself was met with mixed responses from the from the audience (not
surprising for a Marthaler production):
This resulted in the end of the premiere night to a divided response of the Hall: Jubilant expressed consent and vehement rejection clashed - and that was just as well: theater should move eventually, release emotions. This production succeeds!*
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