#operfan

"It is the complexity of teamwork that fascinates me: In order for this performance to happen today, colleagues, experts and talents from all over the world come together and are working together in a way that I experience as completely unique. The orchestra of about 90 musicians. The large choir. The extras. The singers. The lighting people. The stagehands. The people in the organization (at the entrance, in the foyer, behind the stage). The hair and makeup experts. The people who take care of costumes, so that everything is ready and fits. And some more that I don't know about. And then they manage to coordinate exactly with each other for more than six hours. The beat, and with it the structure and tempo, is set by the music, which was written on music paper more than a hundred years ago by the composer using a quill and ink. How an universe emerges from this score, that is so complex and so immensely enchanting.” #operfan #audience #deutscheoperberlin #operalover #opera (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVX7_C8Mk_j/?utm_medium=tumblr

"For me, opera is a mirror of life, with all its drama and tension. A beautiful and playful way of condensing, by all its intensitiy always with a certain lightness in the seriousness of these dramas. My first opera: That's where my parents took me, at the age of 12, in Frankfurt. My father had a special relationship with the newly built opera house in Frankfurt. As a very young journalist, he produced reports about it for the opening.” #opera #operfan #audience #operalover (hier: Staatsoper Unter den Linden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT9V7Tys5As/?utm_medium=tumblr

„Oper is my emotional go to. It is my emotional happy place. During the pandemic is was the one thing I missed most, I have to say. And is not only the opera itself, the music, the art, the Gesamtkunstwerk, but it was exactly encounters like with you, meeting fellow opera lovers, like you, and just chatting along, finding directly some connection, without may not having anything other in life in common, but alredy having some connection over the love to music, and especially the opera.” #opera #operalover #operfan #audience #berlin (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQQg9PwhsjV/?utm_medium=tumblr