{"id":70221,"date":"2013-05-05T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=70221"},"modified":"2013-05-06T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:41:34","slug":"malmo-opera%c2%b4s-dvd-inspelning-av-janaceks-jenufa-vald-till-critic%c2%b4s-choice-i-opera-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=70221","title":{"rendered":"Malm\u00f6 Operas dvd-inspelning av Janaceks Jenufa vald till Critic\u00b4s Choice i OPERA NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bilder: Malin Arnesson<\/div>\n
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Dvd-recension av Malm\u00f6 Opera\u00b4s Jenufa \u00a0by\u00a0William R Braun<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunnerg\u00e5rdh, Sj\u00f6berg, Tobiasson, Frank, B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m Orchestra and Chorus of Malm\u00f6 Opera, Ivanovic. Production: Phelan. ArtHaus 101\u00a0665\u00a0121 mins, subtitled<\/p>\n

In most of the audio recordrings made of Jenufa over the years, not all of\u00a0 the four principal roles are beautifully sung. Some singers, and perhaps some listeners, would say that fine singing is not the point of such an emotional opera, but in the present video recording, made at Sweden s Malmo Opera in 2011, all four principals\u00a0 sing admirably. (As a bonus, even elderly Grandmother Buryja, played by Ingrid Tobiasson , sings with a fine tone.)<\/p>\n

Swedish-American soprano Erika Sunnergardh attracted attention at the Met in 2006, when she made a last-minute company debut as Leonore in a broadcast performances of Fidelio. She gives a fully rounded portrayal\u00a0\u00a0 of Jenufa, light and cool with her grandmother\u00a0 in the first scene, full of kindness for the\u00a0 wayward Steva but raising to great dignity as she gradually\u00a0 realizes how she will have to take care of herself .The early part of her dream scene in Act II is sweedy girlishly sung, but she is clearly a mature woman by the end. Gitta-Maria Sjoberg, as the Kostelnicka, is no one-dimensional villainess in voice or demeanor; thiis is one of the bestsung versions of this character on recordings.<\/p>\n

The strenuous tenor role of Laca seems hardly\u00a0 strenuous at all for Daniel Frank, a romantic,\u00a0 fine-toned singer.\u00a0 The role of Steva is a more forgiving vocal assignment for a tenor, and\u00a0 Joachim B\u00e4ckstr\u00f6m seizes his chance.<\/p>\n

There is of course, a production attached to this excellent performance of the music. lt is by and large a straightforwarded one, staged by Irish director Orpha Phelan and naturalistically acted with recognizable human behaviour, albeit performed on an\u00a0 Expressionistic set by Leslie Travers. Grandmother really\u00a0 is peeling those potatoes, expertly. quite experdy Phelan\u2019s stage direction takes particular care to make the stepdaughter-stepmother relationship multilayered.Jenufa is genuinely sympathetic to her stepmother\u2019s story that her husband beat her, and Jenufa\u00a0 even takes care to warm Kostelnickas hands when she returns from the ghastly secret murder of Jenufas child. The different stories during the wedding in Act III \u2014 who was invited, who doesn\u2019t want to speak to whom \u2014 are neady delineated. Only the last two minutes, when (apparently) Laca is contemplating the building of a new house with a developer, are a letdown. But even here, when the blistering\u00a0 orchestral climax is paired with\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 simple gesture of Laca putting his hand on Jeniifa\u2019s, there is still a musically astute image.<\/p>\n

The camerawork, in a great service, to music, does not call attention to itself.AIso in service to music, conductor Marko Ivanovic shows skill at differentiating the\u00a0 \u201dreal\u201d music from the \u201doperatic\u201d music. After Jenufa learns of the death of her child, i, Ivanovic draws out the\u00a0 massed-strings lament with true dramatic instincts, and he finds a chamber-music elements in this score that others have missed.<\/p>\n

After the performance, this fine Swedish team takes the most deferential, modest set of curtain calls on film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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