From Peer Gynt I knew until three weeks ago, just the music. The two suites by Edvard Grieg have quite irascible, high-contrast moments, but left with their spectacular nature scenes , intimate songs and voluptuous melodies a very romantic glorified impression. And now this: Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen , translated by Christian Morgenstern, directed by Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson on stage at the Lucerne Theater . Gynt This peer is a wisp and jack of all trades, heartthrob and cheeky, mother dear, lies Baron and Troll Prince, incredible and inconceivable - it takes only three actors to make it reasonably represent, to the existence of several chunks of houses to him so exuberant as appropriate stage ( Vytautas Narbutas to offer). The first part is like a volcanic eruption, a hell of a ride through space and time: the sea crossing in the bathtub, Troll wedding on stacks of books, Grieg's music on the radio and the piano in fragments breeze of, Morgenstern congenial verses sharp and ironic, though often incomprehensible to the general chaos, noise and roar. During the break, Peer Gynt presented in the foyer as a leading candidate of the Peer Gynt PGP party for the post of king, the president, or whatever is to choose glamorous, but with his call for revolution in the audience amused with little success. After the break, then something like the contemplative part: On the expansive and expressive going out into the world follows peers return to himself, or at least be trying to dodge some major issues anymore. The aged firebrand finds himself finally confronted with an opponent who offers him the inexorable end - and is (very old-fashioned) unexpected redemption.
We experienced in Lucerne a fast-paced, enjoyable evening. The sheer stimulus overload, combined with my lack of education has, however, impossible for me to grasp the full depth of the piece, the pleasure was so little at the surface. After all: that Grieg's music and Ibsen's Peer Gynt precious little in common with each other is not only noticed me. ". Today there is broad agreement that the national-romantic music Grieg fits very bad to Ibsen's modern drama: The Wikipedia summarizes the communis opinio together so I therefore recommend to read drama and music separately, or to hear - but I recommend both explicitly Lucerne and also the impressive staging.
Technicals: Peer Gynt is at home, on the shore in December and January, three times on the Schedule . Morgenstern's German translation is found, inter alia, the Project Gutenberg , or as Paperback of Ondefo-Verlag (ISBN 978 3 93970308 2).
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