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🦋 Thou shalt dash them in pieces
Last April in Vienna, Claus Guth staged a remarkable interpretation of Handel's Messiah. Dusan Bogdanovic explains the storyline in comments at mostly opera...: For me it was very clearly a more or less straight forward story of a guy committing suicide, not being able to withstand the burdens poised by demands and pressures of the world in which we are all living. The only person knowing that this was suicide is a priest, who stages it like a murder, so that the guy can be at least properly buried. And the question arises whether this can be understood and whether there could be redemption for such a deed. The answer comes from an angel like figure, though speaking to us in a sign language. (Basically God speaking to us and us being â??blind and deafâ? or not open enough to understand his words). I found the scenes in which only the sign-language-speaking character is "singing" especially weird. The whole performance is well worth watching and listening to.
Many clips from this performance are on YouTube -- I have not figured out the correct order yet or I would make a playlist.
 Aha! No need: carosaxone already did it. Handel's Messiah, as staged by Guth.
posted evening of Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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