Director Netia Jones, who was also responsible for the set, costume and video-projection designs, had no difficulty sketching the principal characters with a few well-chosen physical movements but the great strength of her direction lay in her ability to create scenes in which almost all emotional excess had been stripped away.

Es difícil imaginar que la complejidad de 'Innocence' de Sariaaho pueda ser expresada en una escenografía diferente a la de Simon Stone y Chloe Ramford

Blue, la ópera con libreto de Tazewell Thompson y música de Jeanine Tesori, se ha estado paseando entusiastamente por los Estados Unidos, un país en el cual minorías étnicas se enfrentan cotidianamente al abuso de armas de fuego y un racismo institucionalizado en las fuerzas de seguridad.

Without sacrificing the mythological framework or the essential structure of the drama, Mr Castellucci transposed the opera to a world entirely of his own making: a snowbound landscape, flat and largely featureless save for a few rocks, some distant evergreens shrouded in fog, and a single spindly tree.

Given director Stefan Herheim’s previous successes in realising the most conspicuously magical episodes of Rheingold and delineating the subtle character drama of Walküre, one had high hopes that he might even be able to pull off the impossible task of creating a Siegfried that didn’t drag in its opening acts.

Stone se ha arriesgado con uno de los títulos más “sagrados” de la historia del género y la pirueta se le ha ido de las manos.Lo que nos ha narrado en escena, con una factura técnica absolutamente impecable, eso sí, no es Tristán e Isolda, ni siquiera una interpretación radicalmente distinta, sino una historia diferente.

Con esta historia, Kaija Saariaho crea una obra impactante.La música está siempre al servicio del drama, desde la inquietante obertura, que nos pone en situación para lo que vamos a ver.

As Vitter suggested, this is an opera in which both main characters are constantly shadowed by dreams of alternative lives they might lead: first with one another, in Paris;then the rural fantasy evoked by Des Grieux in “En fermant les yeux”;