Royal Opera House,London
Superb performances and expert conducting can’t disguise the dramatic weakness in Georg Friedrich Haas’s unique opera “Morgen und Abend is the struggle of Johannes into and out of life.” This is all we are given as a programme synopsis for Georg Friedrich Haas’s unique opera, an immensely serious, and essentially devout work that deals with birth and dying as the only absolute certainties of the human condition. We watch the beginning and end of a life,but not its course. The fisherman Olai (actor Klaus Maria Brandauer) waits for his son Johannes to be born. Later, Johannes himself (baritone Christoph Pohl), and also a fisherman,is conducted to the afterlife by those who preceded him – his wife Erna (Helena Rasker), and his friend Peter (Will Hartmann) – leaving his daughter Signe (Sarah Wegener) to grieve alone.
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Source: theguardian.com