WebCam Bregenz Festival
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 Verdi and the Floating Stage
“There was, of course, nothing random about my decision to mount Aida, another opera by Guiseppe Verdi, on the Floating Stage. This stage is after all a marvellous venue for everything that this composer did best: transforming grand passion and tragic conflict into superb music.” David Pountney, artistic director
David Pountney’s own thrilling and highly acclaimed production of Nabucco in the summer of 1993 and 1994 launched what has become a remarkable series of operas by Giuseppe Verdi on the Bregenz Festival’s Floating Stage. It has been clear at least since 1999 with the opera A Masked Ball, whose stage sculpture of a giant skeleton leafing through a book attracted attention all over the world, that the Bregenz Floating Stage and Giuseppe Verdi are a perfect match.
The Floating Stage would seem indeed to be the ideal venue for Verdi operas. With their huge choruses, moving mass scenes and dramatic duets, it is as though they were written specifically with the open-air stage in mind, with its great possibilities for imposing sets.
So Aida will be the opera on the Floating Stage for the first time. David Pountney is not the least perturbed by the fact that the Floating Stage stands in a lake and not in a desert. “It’s the first time in the Festival’s history that this magnificent ‘desert opera’ has been staged on the shore of Lake Constance, and of course its poses a considerable challenge. But we think we have found a really exciting production concept.” Live WebCam Bregenz Festival