Kafka Fragments
From: Thursday, 11th November 2010
To: Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Our Review:
11 November 2010
György Kurtág is the most fascinating of contemporary composers. With his Kafka Fragments (1987), the master of Webernesque brevity pulls splinters – short paragraphs, sentences and, in one case, a single word – from the letters, diaries and poems of Franz Kafka and sets them to a typically sparse and spiky violin accompaniment.
American director Peter Sellars takes an equally characteristic approach to staging the work, with soprano Dawn Upshaw acting out a scenario of domestic angst as a (German-singing) US housewife doing her daily chores.
The music serves Sellars’ purposes very well but the reverse isn’t always true. At times Upshaw’s movements echo the sounds of Geoff Nuttall’s solo violin, turning Kurtág’s score into a soundtrack to a wholly invented theatrical context. While Kurtág illuminates Sellars, the direction often literalises and diminishes the bald abstr...
Cast
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Goeff Nuttall (violin)
David Michalek (photography
Creative
Peter Sellars (Director)
James F. Ingalls (Lighting)
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