Triumph of my DPD ... best end of the year event in my telly from the Bayerische Staatsoper!

 Screen captures from tonight performance La Forza del Destino (curtain calls Bayerische staatsoper )


I have Just finished following eagerly La Forza on my telly direct from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Nearly four hours of great singing and music, and all I have to say is that Leonora -my DPD Diva Anja Harteros, gave an outstanding performance in a smashing cast!
  I am so so so proud of our Ludovic Tezier ... he is at the moment the best baritone in the French tradition and he comes from Marseille( spent time at the CNIPAL I mentioned lately).

Alvaro -Jonas Kaufmann appeared as a true romantic lover and sang like an angel. The two of them, Anja Harteros the Discreet Diva, are really matched to sing together in this terrible tragedy.

 I liked the entangled crosses, perhaps the symbol of our lost route in a lost world...and found the ran tan plan aria completely surrealistic! The tarty looking Preziosilla-Nadia Krasteva stroke the desperate tune of the irony of war while she was making her way among rows of dead bodies. Sex and war go along well, with the counterpart of religion and charity... here also displayed with cynicism: It only shows how modern Verdi is.

The music tonight through my telly via my computer (repaired at last!) very often reminded me Verdi also wrote the best Requiem ever.
I was really glad to  be able to  somehow be part of this event, because although I pre-booked seats in May when I was in Shanghaï,  I did not get through what I refer to 'as The Lottery".  I also tried the offer on Parterre box some days ago, as I was ready to travel as fast as I could to Munich... but Fate stroke again... ! Well ... internet worked  tonight ! So ... who complains?