‘The way Reimann demonstrates his mastery in the shadings, the fluctuations of the swelling and subsiding of sounds, the rhythmic and melodic capacity for suffering, the inner violence, is absolutely compelling’, enthused music critic Wolfgang Schreiber in Opernwelt magazine after the world premiere of L'invisible at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in 2017.
The trilogy lyrique, which Aribert Reimann created based on three plays by Maurice Maeterlinck, can now be seen in Frankfurt under the musical direction of Titus Engel. Daniela Löffner, who has directed very successfully at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Bochum, among others, is staging an operatic work for the first time in Frankfurt.
Maeterlinck's dramas from the end of the 19th century oscillate between bourgeois realism and symbolist ambiguity. The everyday refers to the abyss of death, which is also omnipresent in Reimann's score - in expressive vocal lines as well as in iridescent orchestral interludes.
Titus Engel, who has already conducted Mozart's Betulia liberata, Strauss' Salome and Nielsen's Maskerade in Frankfurt, can be seen in another production in Frankfurt this season: In June and July, he will conduct five performances of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, staged in combination with Debussy's La Damoiselle élue.
L'invisible, Oper Frankfurt
