A concert this summer in Salzburg is all about the most beautiful in the world. But it’s not just the material that tells the story; so are the protagonists of the three unstaged operas. Among them an Indian queen, the androgynous Romeo and a lovesick Dido, who drags her people down with her in their doom.
The first was Purcell’s “The Indian Queen”, the vocal and instrumentals of which were re-plotted by theater director Peter Sellars because the original version (a fantasy war between Aztecs and Incas) was “too banal”, as he put it. .
The American combined the music with excerpts from Rosario Aguilar’s 1992 book ‘The White Girl and the Birds Without Feet’, which deals with the clash between Spanish conquerors and Maya and focuses on the thoughts of the eponymous ‘Indian Queen’, who was the leader from the Spaniards as an offer of peace and eventually falls for him despite his atrocities. The Anglo-French actress Amira Casar conveyed those thoughts in an impressive and artful way, so that every word penetrated to the very marrow of the audience. A declaration of love to literature.
Source: Krone
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