Christina Gansch - Martinu: The Greek Passion - BLU-RAY

Bohuslav Martinu's opera The Greek Passion, here in the 1961 version, is based on the novel The re-crucified Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis. The opera develops the Christian doctrine of Inchlove thy neighbourInch ad absurdum, as a group of refugees are driven out of a little Greek village just as the village is putting on a Passion play for Holy Week. The opera is a pessimistic plea for humanity, made in the awareness that humanity must always wrestle anew with it's own egoism. Director Simon Stone Inchcreates a modern parable, somehow both contemporary and timeless.Inch (The Times) For the last of his 16 operas, Martinu developed a tonal language which combined his early musical experiences with elements of Greek folklore, Greek Orthodox liturgy and dance music. Maxime Pascal, the 2014 winner of the Salzburg Festival's annual Young Conductors Award and at the podium of the Wiener Philharmoniker for the first time, Inchunfolds a musical and dramatic intensity that makes your hair stand on end, both in the tender outbursts and the violent ones. A maestro of his time.Inch (Le Figaro)InchA highlight of this year's Salzburg FestivalInch The TimesThe Greek Passion elected InchBEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 2023Inch OPER! Awards 2024InchThis opulence and the playing of the overall grippingly coherent ensemble hits one to the core.Inch Neue Musikzeitung