Daphne de Strauss
Romeo Castellucci (puesta en escena), Thomas Guggeis (director) — Con René Pape (Peneios), Anna Kissjudit (Gaea), Vera-Lotte Boecker (Daphne) …
Casting
Romeo Castellucci — Director de escena, diseñador de vestuario, iluminador, escenógrafo
Evelin Facchini — Coreógrafa
Martin Wright — Director de coro
Piersandra Di Matteo — Dramaturgo
Jana Beckmann — Dramaturga
Maxi Menja Lehmann — Asistente del director de escena
Lisa Behensky — Asistente del escenógrafo
Alessio Valmori — Asistente del escenógrafo
Clara Rosina Straßer — Asistente del vestuarista
Theresa Wilson — Asistente del escenógrafo
Marco Giusti — Asistente de luces
René Pape — Peneios
Anna Kissjudit — Gaea
Vera-Lotte Boecker — Daphne
Magnus Dietrich — Leukippos
Pavel Černoch — Apollo
Sobre el programa...
Don't miss this rarely heard gem by Richard Strauss: the opera Daphne returns to the Berlin State Opera with Vera-Lotte Boecker and René Pape! In this meticulous staging by Romeo Castellucci, the titular nymph's arboreal metamorphosis takes place against a ghostly backdrop of falling snow, untainted by the bloodshed to come…
This Castellucci production is a thorough reimagining of the work that still keeps the overarching framework of the myth passed down through generations, from Ovid and Plutarch to Strauss and his librettist Joseph Gregor. Under the baton of Thomas Guggeis, the voices of Vera-Lotte Boecker and René Pape (as Daphne and her suitor Leucippe) unite in harmonius celebration of this age-old drama where life and death melt into one another.
Composed between 1936 and 1937 in Dresden, Strauss's work opens on a paean to nature sung by the young nymph Daphne. Unbeknownst to her, the god Apollo (played brilliantly by Pavel Černoch) is listening, mad with desire—but she escapes his clutches through flattery and the intervention of Zeus, who transforms her into a laurel tree, making her one with nature itself. In a final creative exclamation point, Castellucci closes the action with the epigraph from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, perhaps in a nod to our own ecological crisis: "'Sibyl, what do you want?' She answered, 'I want to die.'"
Photo © Monika Rittershaus
