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Shedding light on the audience: Hans Neuenfels and Peter Konwitschny stage Verdi (and Verdians)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2003

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Abstract

‘Scandal’, ‘uproar’ and ‘sensation’ are words that are often used by critics when writing about operatic stagings of directors Hans Neuenfels and Peter Konwitschny. Neuenfels' 1981 staging of Aida in Frankfurt/Main aroused a veritable furore, as did his interpretation of Nabucco (Berlin, 2000); similar reactions greeted Konwitschny's Graz Aida (1994) and his Hamburg Don Carlos (2001). Neuenfels and Konwitschny continually undermine traditional concepts of operatic staging: the provocative statements advanced by their powerful images regularly elicit bewildered reactions.

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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 1-2 , March 2002 , pp. 201 - 210
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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