Schlömer, Joachim

European Tanztheater by Harold Bergsohn( Visual )

4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of the avant garde Tanztheater, past, present and future, is told here through filmed performances, commentary and interviews with critics and choreographers. Tanztheater, which had its roots in the 1920s and the work of Rudolf Laban, strives to reflect the social and cultural climate of the time using many artistic elements, including dance, drama, and poetry. In the words of Pina Bausch, Tantztheater is "not how people move but what moves people." Shows archival footage and edited excerpts of modern European dance

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner( Visual )

19 editions published between 2003 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Performed at the Opera of Stuttgart, The Rhinegold abandons Wagnerian mythology to the benefit of an unsettling tale in camera. "Four operas, four directors." It was as a response to this original artistic idea that Wagner's Tetralogy was produced in 1999-2000 on the stage of the Stuttgart Opera under the direction of the Austrian conductor Lothar Zagrosek and later filmed in 2002-2003. The Rhinegold (the Prologue) was entrusted to Joachim Schlömer, The Valkyries to Christof Nel, Siegfried to Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, and lastly the last day of the Ring, the Twilight of the Gods to Perter Konwitschny. Joachim Schlömer, to whom the responsibility fell of opening the cycle, was trained as a dancer and choreographer in Germany where he was born. He has premiered a hundred ballets while also dedicating himself to directing performances since the nineties. Nonconformist and original this Tetralogy was a sensation. From its prologue, The Rhinegold, the audience in Stuttgart must have been captivated by this intimist and modern approach which totally abandons mythological imagery. Everyone, from Wotan to Fafner, the maids of the Rhine to Alberich and Loge, is dressed in thirties-style costumes and the scenery, a spa in the art deco style (the Rhine is the basin &, is the same during the entire work. Thus presented The Rhinegold is treated like a story in camera where the psychologically ravaged characters expend themselves in deadly rivalries. The singers, whose artistry is perfectly matched, blend perfectly into the dramaturgy, while at the rostrum Lothar Zagrosek delivers a contrasted and explosive version while retaining splendid fluidity

La finta semplice : opera buffa in three acts, K. 51 (46a) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( Visual )

11 editions published in 2006 in 3 languages and held by 89 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Comedy of love overcoming obstacles through deceit, with roots in commedia dell'arte. Everyone except eccentric Cassandro yearns for marital bliss, but Rosina wins his heart with feigned simplicity

Irrfahrten II & III : Abendempfindung & Rex tremendus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( Visual )

3 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of 22 operas as performed at the 2006 Salzburg Festival

Irrfahrten I : la finta semplice : a Mozart trilogy by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( Visual )

4 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"La finta semplice is a comedy of love overcoming obstacles through deceit, with roots in commedia dell' arte. Mozart was 12 when he composed this "odyssey" (Irrfahrt) about people all yearning for marital bliss - except the eccentric Cassandro. But heroine Rosina wins his heart with feigned simplicity (hence the opera's title)"--Container

Senza fine : 12 Inszenierungen by Joachim Schlömer( Book )

1 edition published in 2004 in German and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend( Visual )

2 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in German and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cycle of four operas based on Germanic and Scandinavian mythology

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner( Recording )

4 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in German and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The loss of the Rheingold and the Delivery of the goddess Freia to Fasott

Irrfahrten II & III : a trilogy( Visual )

2 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The second odyssey in Salzburg's Irrfahrten trilogy interweaves text and film with instrumental, vocal and symphonic pieces ... The last odyssey juxtaposes two unfinished comic operas, L'oca del Cairo and Lo sposo deluso, with the Requiem Mozart died before completing"--Container

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner( )

3 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in German and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Richard Wagner's vast "Der Ring des Nibelungen" cycle comprises four full-length operas ("Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", "Siegfried" and "Gotterdammerung") and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to produce the music in text. This text provides a line-by-line translation of the first of the opera librettos - "Das Rheingold"--A running commentary on the action and signals as to when each leitmotif appears. Each leitmotif is a musical theme or motif which denotes a character, emotion, object or event, and these musical themes were used by Wagner as a unifying force within his dramas. The listener following the opera with the libretto is able to pinpoint the various themes (in the Ring cycle there are 81 leitmotifs) and so increase understanding of the drama. Sabor's translation seeks to preserve the original metre and elucidate the complexities of Wagner's intricate libretto. The volume is supplemented with scene-by-scene synopses, short discussions of each leitmotif, a discography, videography and bibliography. Translations of the other three operas and a companion volume are available, both separately and in a boxed set. The companion volume offers essays on the meaning of the Ring, on Wagner's turbulent and fascinating life, his varied literary sources from the world of myth, the genesis of the cycle and its performance history over the last 120 years