Die schweigsame Frau on Arte Concert
Opera director Jan Philipp Gloger, artistic director of the Vienna Volkstheater, focuses on social issues such as loneliness and housing shortages in his new production of Richard Strauss' opera. Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) is his directorial debut at the Berlin State Opera.
Jewish author Stefan Zweig was at the height of his creativity when Richard Strauss' opera was written. For Christian Thielemann, it is a musical bull's-eye: enthusiastic about the versatile score, Die schweigsame Frau was his opera of choice for his first opera premiere as general music director at the Berlin State Opera. In this role, he not only followed in the footsteps of Daniel Barenboim: in 1908, Richard Strauss was appointed general music director of the Royal Court Opera Unter den Linden, which is now the State Opera Unter den Linden.
Opera director Jan Philipp Gloger, artistic director of the Vienna Volkstheater, focuses on social issues such as loneliness and housing shortages in his new production. Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) is his directorial debut at the Berlin State Opera.
Sir Morosus lives in an old apartment in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He longs for peace and quiet. He has hardly any social contacts. His nephew Henry moves into Morosus' flat. He turns up unexpectedly with his colourful theatre troupe – and his silent wife Aminta. Over the course of the three musically diverse acts of the opera, Sir Morosus undergoes a positive change in his life: through the theatre troupe, who after a while actually move in with him, he finds human connection – and at the same time peace and quiet.