Hello
Hierdie was ’n wonderlike artikel wat verlede week in die Financial Times Weekend Magazine gepubliseer was. Die aanvoer dui aan dat Opera ons vertel wat dit is om mens te wees. Die artikel bestaan uit foto’s geneem van die verhoog wat die waarnemer toelaat om die "hele" operahuis in te neem. Daar is daarom ’n geleentheid om, La Scala, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Teatro La Fenice, The Royal Opera House, Palais Garnier, Operaen – Copenhagen, te waardeer. (Vyf gratis artikels ’n maand word toegelaat.)
Die oorsprong hiervan:
The American photographer David Leventi has titled his series of opera house interiors “Björling’s Larynx”, after the great 20th-century Swedish operatic tenor Jussi Björling. As Leventi explains, these are the spaces in which his Romanian grandfather, Anton Gutman, never got the chance to perform. “He was a cantor who was interned in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp from 1942-1948. The Danish operatic tenor Helge Rosvaenge, also a prisoner, heard my grandfather sing an aria from Tosca and gave him lessons. I grew up listening to him sing in our living room.” To date, Leventi has photographed 40 opera houses in Europe and the Americas, each from centre-stage and lit solely by the existing chandeliers and lamps. “I believe that the space itself can be the event,” he says.
Daar is ook ’n fotoreeks wat uitbrei op bogenoemde.
Dankie
Wouter