Text b reinterpreting mozart

The Bolshoi is working at Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”. The opera is being stage-managed by Peter Feranez, who conducted Mozart in Austria, Gemany, the Chech Republic and Japan.

“There are two eternal themes in art – love and death”, says the director. “Having taken a Beaumarchais plot, Mozart seems to have exceeded everyone in resourcefulness by turning a detective comedy about love into an opera. The result was a drama of such strength and dynamics that it makes the spectator have his eyes glued to the stage continually, not from aria to aria.

Mozart wrote a comic opera – we bear primarily this in mind when working on the production at the Bolshoi Theater”.

Corr.: Mozart’s music gives broad score for the most diverse interpretations. Do they change with time?

P. Feranez: Of course. There was a brilliant romantic period in Mozart’s conceptualization, and the great conductors Böhm, von Karajan and Klemperer performed his music with broad symphonic breath: the arias and arioso fragments were enhanced, the vocalism was broad and full, and so on. But the most important thing was the strained-subjective character of the performer’s relationships with the author. The wealth of the interpretations and the subjective meaning of Mozart which was new each time when extracted from canonical texts produced a great impression.

Corr.: Do you want to bring Mozart to the audience in pure form?

P. Feranez: We are out to overcome the romantic view of Mozart. It is important for us what he wrote and what he has left to us. We deal with the original. The trend for such an interpretation originated in the 1980s when an ensemble of old music was created in Vienna. Ancient instruments were made and the conductor reproduced the different sounds, pitches and overtones.

There was time when operas went on for seven hours straight, and supper was included in the extravaganza. Our production will not, of course, last seven hours, but neither will it become a digest. We shall try to play and sing everything in detail, to do this easily, in a comic way. We shall try not to overload Mozart and not to impose ourselves as his co-authors.

Corr.: How complicated is Mozart for Russian actors?

P. Feranez: Not more complicated than for the Briton, German, Italian and even Austrian… After all, Mozart is not an Austrian composer, he was only born in Salzburg. Neigher is he an Italian composer although he took his clue from the Italian vocal school. He is not a German, Czech or Slovak composer although he worked in the cities of Gemany and in Prague. He is universal and belongs to everyone in equal measure. He was a citizen of the world.

Proper Name

Peter Feranez [’pJtq fq’rRnqts]

3.3. Ludwig van beethoven active words

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