The challenges of creating a world: Director David Bösch on Il trovatore (The Royal Opera) скачать в хорошем качестве

The challenges of creating a world: Director David Bösch on Il trovatore (The Royal Opera)

Director David Bösch speaks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his new Royal Opera production of Verdi's Il trovatore. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/trovatore This clip features highlights from our Il trovatore insight, also available to watch in-full featuring cast and creative team interviews and performances:    • Il trovatore Insight (The Royal Opera)   Verdi wrote Il trovatore hot on the heels of Rigoletto, and its premiere came a scant two months before that of La traviata. But Il trovatore, while no less popular than its neighbours, is quite different. Verdi himself had suggested the source material, Antonio García Gutiérrez’s play El trovador (1836), to his librettist Salvatore Cammarano. He encouraged Cammarano to pursue the same cross-genre developments Verdi had introduced in Rigoletto, writing in an early letter ‘if the entire opera were, let’s say, a single piece, I would find it more reasonable and just’. As it happens, the end result is highly formal in structure, and seems to look back before the innovations of Rigoletto – but audiences since the opera’s premiere have been captivated by its great dramatic concision and energy. Il trovatore is probably best known for its ‘gypsy’ music – the Anvil Chorus, Azucena’s ‘Stride la vampa’ and Manrico’s heroic ‘Di quella pira’ are key examples. But Verdi wrote wonderful music for all four of his leads, with the ‘aristocratic’ ‘Il balen del suo sorriso’ for the Count, and Leonora’s prayer ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee’ among a host of thrilling ensembles and chorus numbers. German director David Bösch, celebrated for his theatrical productions for Munich and Frankfurt among others, makes his UK debut with this new production for The Royal Opera. The opera’s themes of jealousy, revenge and love play out against a hauntingly beautiful, wintry landscape that has been riven by war. --- German director David Bösch makes his Royal Opera debut in the 2015/16 Season directing Il trovatore. Bösch was born in Lübeck and studied at the Zürich School of Music and Drama and on the Young Directors’ Project at Salzburg Festival. His early career included positions as House Director at Schauspiel Essen and Schauspielhaus Bochum. He made his opera directing debut in the 2009/10 season with Orlando furioso (Frankfurt Opera) and L’elisir d’amore (Bavarian State Opera). Opera productions since have included Mitridate, re di Ponto and L’Orfeo (Bavarian State Opera), Königskinder (Frankfurt Opera), The Cunning Little Vixen (Klagenfurt), Idomeneo (Basle), Simon Boccanegra (Opéra de Lyon) and Elektra (Opera Vlaanderen). Bösch works extensively in theatre. He won the 2006 Salzburg Festival Young Directors’ Award for his production of Much Ado About Nothing (Thalia Theater, Hamburg). Other productions include Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe (Schauspielhaus Zürich and 14th Internationale Schillertage in Mannheim) and Goethe’s Urfaust (Myeongdong Theatre in Seoul, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute). He has also directed numerous works for Burgtheater Vienna, including Romeo and Juliet and Ghosts.