after 45 years, Michael ende’s book for young people, “Momo is” still up to date. Wilfried Hiller knitted therefrom, and a music theatre and one gets the problem. Here the criticism of the premiere.
Munich – we Take only the coziness. How much time it took earlier to the set. Afternoons, evenings, nights had to be spent in taverns, “to develop this comfort tough, syrup-like a Zenith”. Today’s “Instant-Griabigkeit”, Gerhard Polt speaks – a horror. As the time for taking the time? Michael ende wrote 45 years ago, with “Momo” a pleasing moralist freely against the basic problem. However, his heroine, as the youth novel is wrong, has not won: The children of that time are today graumäusige Controller, the guards are over-functioning, to optimize people’s wheels.
this is Precisely why you should the book make again and again. Composer Wilfried Hiller, since the “Goggolori” of 1985, a kind of gardener’s place-house of the Holy, does it for the third Time. According to one Version for puppet theatre and an open-air production in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, supported by Librettist Wolfgang Adenberg, Onwin a “music theatre in 18 pictures” for Munich’s folk Opera. Very child-friendly, it is like the premiere shows. A good two hours including intermission, more Talking than Singing, tangible musical forms without disturbance is a risk plus a good consumable appetizers structure: as soon As something is compressed to the point that it is already over again.
master Hora is not a Gandalf-Old man, but a dancer
The evening is stretched between poetry (in the Solo wind instruments-discharges of the two parts) up to the parody: Gigi, Momo-friend and guide, will give Hiller a dash number. The doll Bibigirl, a poisoned gift of the Grey men in Momo, quotes Offenbach’s Olympia. And Grey Lord is number one but in stratospheric Nagging, soprano Ilia Staple makes exceptionally good. The percussionists are employed by the Orff student used a lot to Sell, the time the fits well. The most ambitious of them, it is but, if Hiller leaves the book behind. Master Hora is not a Gandalf-Old man, but a dancer, whose words come from the invisible choir. Magic in sound and feel – also because Hiller give some score pages.
A little bit of his “Momo suffers” under the Problem that is actually denounced. You can tell the piece is that it need to route. 300 novel pages want only once to be in a music theatre pressed. The Trick: Gigi is the beginning of an extensive narrator, it is allowed to chew but in the end, only a stale “all’s well that ends well”. Accordingly, the directed by Nicole Claudia Weber is oiled. A technically skillful Arrangement of the evening, more Musical than a often dwell at the end of the Opera. A few set pieces, mark Momos amphitheatre, the stage designer Karl Fehringer and Judith Leikauf create a flexible Arrangement that quickly turns to Horas watches-Palace, or in the time memory of the Grey gentlemen, who rises from the stage.
The piece is the template not quite meet
conductor Michael Brandstätter Hillers set pieces together with the gärtnerplatz orchestra-versed to the sound of images. Rhythmically Complicated to succeed in the choir and as a matter of course. Almost consistently there’s in-house luxury appointments, at the head of Maximilian Mayer, tenor, articulated Sonny boy Gigi. Thanks to Holger Ohlmann street sweeper Beppo bass profound father figure, Matteo Carvone is master Hora dancing as being a in-between realm. Momo, who can listen well, can speak logically only: Anna wool, designed very naturally, without pushing into the foreground.
That could share the magic of this special derlings more, not her. Why the children and adults of the world so attached to Momo, which is why at first glance, passive being the arch-Nemesis of the time thieves, the lost at Hillers Rode through the novel. Undeniably his “Momo”, also thanks to the Director, a performance, and the like. Not only is Michael ende’s first readers, is also the Junior anno 2018, the picked-up for an exciting theatre experience. However, if the piece of the template and their current issues the world is really fair? Remedy just one: the cozy reading promises.
The action
In an ancient amphitheatre, the girl, Momo, is a good listener and in whose presence the joy of life, enjoy living. The Grey gentlemen fight this and want to bring the people to save time – because the fiends are in need of this raw material. Thanks to turtle Cassiopeia, Momo to master Hora, the manages the time of the people, and the main enemy of the Grey gentlemen is met. It comes to a fight – the people get back their time.
