KURT WEILLS WOMENS
Av Henning H?holt
Kurt Weills Womens p? den Litauiske National Opera viser at man ogs? kan gj?re gode forestillinger i det lille formatet.
English version:
Kurt Weills Womens at the Lithuanian National Opera shows that this excellent ensemble also can make good performances in the little format.
This is a cabaret performance with six excellent well known singing actresses, Laima Jonutyt?, Inesa Linaburgyt?, Raimonda Tallat-Kelpsait?, Birut? Dambruskait? and Janina Misciukait?, a small 9 persons orchestra and conductor, Liutauras Balciunas. The performance is elegantly presented, with good personalities. But however, spite in the good singers, it is the assisting dancer, there is giving the little extra touch to this performance. Making the performance being funny, amusing, tragic, drunk, very elegant, sad. All up to what the text is telling us. This is only due to his elegance, his flavour of forming the small roles, so that they are supporting the singers, who in fact just are staying singing. This role is done, by the excellent soloist at the National Ballet, Voldemaras Cheblinskas. Without him, this performance has not been so successfully as it is now. He can guest with this role every where in the world.
Honestly I must admit that the music of Kurt Weill, with its special touch is not good enough, to keep a whole evening performance. Even when, it is split into two different parts. The first part Kurt Weills Womens could easily have been standing by itself, as a cabaret piece, at a smaller stage, where a smaller audience could have been coming closer to the stage, and been feeling the intimity and nearness, that the texts deserve.
The following second part, The Seven Dead Sins, is spite in excellent singers and dancers, there are doing all their best, not any good performance. It is boring, If there has not been the signs showing in german and lithuanian language what dead sins the performance now are showing, I could not have found out, what they were trying to show. The two dancing soloists Zivila Baikstyte as Ana II and the elegant Eligijus Butkus danced beautifully their pas de deux?s and the Ana I, Rosita Civilyte is acting and singing well and with excellent diction. The audience was leaving the theatre without any happiness. There is a good cd recording of the perfrormance, taht I would like to recommend. It helps to getting to know the music and the texts by Bert Brecht better.
Henning H?holt, hoeholthus@c2i.net 18.9.2002
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