Old-timers report it again and again: when we went to see an opera in Salzburg in Karajan's time, it was... for Karajan!
At the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, Kirill Petrenko and the fabulous Berlin Philharmonic will be able to boast of having made music the main attraction of an opera performance again.
Especially when it comes to an opera as orchestral as
Elektra
.
Petrenko once again succeeds in squaring the circle.
Lively to the point of being breathless, his tempi immediately install a tension that will not let up.
The superhuman firepower of the Berliners becomes sharp, forgetting any desire for comfort.
But that's not all!
Decibels are never a goal in themselves, this sound barrier always remaining transparent, rich in a palette of colors and sound planes that we barely suspected.
But that is still not enough.
When it comes to being lyrical, Petrenko remembers that the Bavarian Strauss was an adopted Viennese, and suddenly makes the strings sing…
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