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本帖最后由 Jwang 于 2013-5-7 12:36 编辑
New German production of Wagner's opera leads to protests and walkouts.
A new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf has been booed by audience members outraged at the use of Nazi imagery.
The staging by controversial theatre director Burkhard C. Kosminski showed characters wearing Third Reich uniforms complete with swastikas while the overture included a scene where dancers were apparently trapped inside a transparent gas chamber. The character of Venus was dressed as an SS Officer while Tannhäuser, as one of her SS henchmen, was forced to murder a family.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that audience members started booing about 30 minutes into the production. In addition there were a large number of walkouts with protestors deliberately slamming the exit doors to make their point. The director was reportedly accosted by angry patrons during the after-party and the opera house has received a number of complaints from the local Jewish community.
Michael Szentei-Heise, the head of the Jewish community in Dusseldorf, called the production “tasteless”, pointing out that Wagner's anti-Semitism was not to be found in the music or libretto and thus the production was doing the composer a disservice. “It strikes me as odd to have to defend Wagner”, he told Die Zeit, but “Wagner had nothing to do with the Holocaust”.
The production is clearly taking risks since wearing or even displaying a swastika is illegal in Germany.
尽管有点过分,但我支持艺术创作的自由。起哄长至30分钟,哈哈,有意思。不知演员如何唱下去。
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