MAHLERMANIA - NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FStb7I1ylb4

In their first production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Nico and the Navigators tackle the cosmos of Mahler's songs in an evening of poetical and physical expression that endeavours to distil this sifting of senses for the stage. For Nico and the Navigators this Mahler project represents not only another excursion into musical theatre but also the beginning of a sustained collaboration with the opera house.

Recorded at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Moritz Gnann musical direction • Nicola Hümpel stage production • Oliver Proske stage design • Frauke Ritter costume design • Jörg Königsdorf dramaturge • Katarina Bradic mezzo-soprano • Simon Pauly baritone

By and with Patric Schott • Annedore Kleist • Anna-Luise Recke • Ioannis Avakoumidis • Frank Willens

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
A progressive outlook versus fear of the unknown, the bitterness of the outsider versus a yearning for greener grass, a manic drive versus self-absorption… Gustav Mahler's music is a mass of contrasts and dualities linked only by a weak tissue of shifting balances. In Mahler's body of songs no less than in his nine symphonies, this inner conflict thrusts itself upon the audience with existential urgency: each song marks a way-station along a road that leads from the romantic idylls of the "Wunderhorn" via the familial intimacy of the "Rückert–Lieder" to the contemplative outlook of Far Eastern lyricism in the "Lied von der Erde".

Curioso...y a pesar de lo estrambótoico de la propuesta, pues se ve interesante (hasta atractiva diría)...

¿¿¿¿Estarán Nico and the Navigators--whoever they may be --intentado crear esa ópera que nunca compuso D. Gustav????