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Landholder Larina is sitting in the garden together with her old nurse Filipjewna. While her daughters Tatjana and Olga are singing she remembers her youth and her first love. Homecoming singing peasants interrupt her reminiscence. Tatjana is saddened by the peasants’ singing and she immerses herself in a book. Olga is unable to relate to her shy and withdrawn sister who is forever hiding among books. Larina complains about Tajana’s conduct and assures her that the heroes of her books do not really exist.
This is how the beautiful story of Peter I. Tschaikowsky’s Eugen Onegin starts. All tickets in the Staatsoper in Berlin have been sold out long time ago. But it doesn’t matter because on the 5th of June one could enjoy free live opera in open air, projected on a huge screen, just side by side with the opera building. It was the last show of the season.
I can’t say I am an opera connaisseur but seeing one of the most famous opera pieces in the world while sitting with my friends on a blanket, drinking red wine and eating cheese and while tens of other people around you are doing exactly the same…let’s say it gives one a totally different perspective on what opera is all about.
A lot of young, some lost stubborn tourists and old couples who didn’t run away from placing their posteriors on the uncomfortable cement, where spending 3 hours being amazed by the great performance . Make up and props were very interesting, giving a ‘contemporary’ dimension to the ‘old’ piece.
Onegin remains behind, desperate and alone. The show ends and the square starts applauding. In just a few seconds the actors come out of the Staatopera building to bow to the audience outside.
I must say bravo Berlin, you enchanted me with this cultural event and thank you for bringing opera to my eyes and ears. I guess many of us who were there wouldn’t have had the intention to enter the opera for this event. I am glad I didn’t miss it!
By the way, BMW was sponsoring the whole event and this is why at a certain point we started seeing a few flying horses on the sky of Berlin. Sure, helium balloons shaped like horses. Funny guerilla though!
This is how the beautiful story of Peter I. Tschaikowsky’s Eugen Onegin starts. All tickets in the Staatsoper in Berlin have been sold out long time ago. But it doesn’t matter because on the 5th of June one could enjoy free live opera in open air, projected on a huge screen, just side by side with the opera building. It was the last show of the season.
I can’t say I am an opera connaisseur but seeing one of the most famous opera pieces in the world while sitting with my friends on a blanket, drinking red wine and eating cheese and while tens of other people around you are doing exactly the same…let’s say it gives one a totally different perspective on what opera is all about.
A lot of young, some lost stubborn tourists and old couples who didn’t run away from placing their posteriors on the uncomfortable cement, where spending 3 hours being amazed by the great performance . Make up and props were very interesting, giving a ‘contemporary’ dimension to the ‘old’ piece.
Onegin remains behind, desperate and alone. The show ends and the square starts applauding. In just a few seconds the actors come out of the Staatopera building to bow to the audience outside.
I must say bravo Berlin, you enchanted me with this cultural event and thank you for bringing opera to my eyes and ears. I guess many of us who were there wouldn’t have had the intention to enter the opera for this event. I am glad I didn’t miss it!
By the way, BMW was sponsoring the whole event and this is why at a certain point we started seeing a few flying horses on the sky of Berlin. Sure, helium balloons shaped like horses. Funny guerilla though!
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I’m thrilled opera and classical are being reimagined! Artists from all fields should integrate these themes into their oeuvre.