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Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) / Fuchs (2007)

Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish

Genre: Opera

The musical part is the second factor in this acclaimed premiere’s success: Elisabeth Fuchs, the Junge Philharmonie of Salzburg and the dazzling team of young singers accomplish a transfixing level of concentration and sense of drama. A thrilling component of ‘Mozart 22.’ This is a DVD of a live performance of the combined opera from the Salzburg Marionette Theater at the Salzburg Summer Festival 2006. It is a part of the M22 project where the Festival staged all 22 operas written by Wolfgang Mozart to celebrate his 250th birth year and recorded them for posterity.

Bastien und Bastienne was written in 1768 when Mozart was 12 years old as a Singspiel (opera with sung arias connected by spoken dialogs). It was set to the translated German text by Friedrich Weiskern, based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s operetta ‘Le Devin du village (The Village Soothsayer)’ about the romantically uncommitted shepherd boy Bastien and his distressed faithful girlfriend Bastienne... and how their affair is saved with the help of the magician Colas (there are only 3 characters in the opera). The music is rather simple and the songs short (rarely exceeding two minutes a piece).

Der Schauspieldirektor; on the other hand, was written in 1786 for a competition in Vienna. It contains a lot of spoken dialog and only five musical numbers, including the wonderful festive overture featuring a more dense and interesting winds orchestration. Two of the 4 arias are among the hardest to sing in the coloratura soprano repertoire, however. The opera was set to the amusing text by Gottlieb Stephanie and revolves around the troubles the Impresario has in casting the two competing prima donnas (Mme Herz and Mlle Silberklang) for an opera run.

This production combines the two short operas into a longer one in an opera within an opera format. The overall setting is at the theater where Frank the Impresario starts the show conducting a casting contest among the marionette dolls for a performance of Mozart’s opera Bastien und Bastienne. The protagonists, with the exception of Frank and his assistant Buff (who doubles as Colas the Magician during the opera part) are marionette dolls voiced by singers (who were auditioned by the two dolls...in an amusing ‘turn the table’ from the previous marionette audition). Two are selected to play Bastienne simply because Frank can’t decide on just one (the practical reason is because of the merge with Der Schauspieldirektor, which features two soprani, Mme Herz and Mlle Silberklang). The spoken dialog is completely re-written by Herr Reichert (just as well, since the original one supposedly contains mostly jokes about Mozart’s contemporary plays and actors... and who knows a thing about them these days?).

Bastien und Bastienne · Der Schauspieldirektor

Alfred Kleinheinz · Radu Cojocariu · Bernhard Berchtold · Evmorfia Metaxaki · Aleksandra Zamojska

Junge Philharmonie Salzburg · Elisabeth Fuchs, conductor

Salzburger Marionettentheater

Staged by Thomas Reichert · Directed by Stefan Aglassinger

Works on This Recording:

1. Bastien und Bastienne, K 50 (46a) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Radu Cojocariu (Bass), Bernhard Berchtold (Tenor), Alfred Kleinheinz (Spoken Vocals),

Evmorfia Metaxaki (Soprano), Aleksandra Zamojska (Soprano)

Conductor: Elisabeth Fuchs

Orchestra/Ensemble: Salzburg Junge Philharmonie

Period: Classical

Written: 1768; Vienna, Austria

Date of Recording: 2006

Venue: Salzburg Festival, Austria

2. Der Schauspieldirektor, K 486 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Evmorfia Metaxaki (Soprano), Bernhard Berchtold (Tenor), Radu Cojocariu (Bass),

Aleksandra Zamojska (Soprano)

Conductor: Elisabeth Fuchs

Orchestra/Ensemble: Salzburg Junge Philharmonie

Period: Classical

Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria

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