This Is Why I QUIT Opera Theatre!!! Hänsel & Gretel: Ein Männlein Steht Im Walde (Humperdinck)
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Love it :) I totally feel you! the traditional opera industry is not what people think... keep singing and inspiring the world :)
Oh this brings back memories! I was in a production of Hansel and Gretel, I was part of a children's chorus that were the "cookies" who were turned back into children at the end. I absolutely love the music by Humperdinck. 💕
Also, I just found your channel today and your voice is beautiful! 💕
❤️amazing voice
Personal freedom,freedom of expression,spreading the love ,this is what music is all about.Thanks Freya!
You looked so pretty singing on top of that mountain. I hope you do all great things in future too suitable to the kind of freedom and space you like.
Oh childhood memorys. I always sung this song together with my grandma 🤗
Fräulein Zimt Me too 😊
Amazing singing voice! And by the way, you look absolutely amazing too! Beauty-full!
I don't understand any meaning of every word but just love your voice and your performance. Thank you for sharing! I can watch it over and over again.
I can imagine that was a hard decision to leave the opera. No matter how one stands to the question of how a piece should be staged and who should decide this, I do not believe that an artist can bring out the best what´s in him concerning to singing and acting if the interpretation is not at least somehow consistent with him. This aspect may not be considered enough by the directors nowadays. In that sense, it seems to me it have been a logical and necessary decision ...?! Nevertheless it was sang absolutely pure and beautiful. Would like to hear more of it!☺️
Well said. Beautiful voice
beautiful loved the re-scoring
great video!
Just wondering, why are you using a microphone if it's an opera?
Who's your favorite soprano singers of the past?
You should be able to enjoy what you do. But whether you like it or not, it's up to the director to make it however he/she wants. Plus, if you think that art is not political, even opera, well, you gotta take some history of music lessons again.
That's interesting Freya. I came across this discussion just a few days ago on an opera facebook page. It seems how you feel is very common amongst opera singers. I'm wondering if this is happening because opera singers aren't trained and prepared for the contemporary art side of their art form. I am still quite new to opera and can't claim a deep understanding of its history but I know a bit about visual art and I'm starting to think that opera isn't treated in a contemporary way, then it might be about the same as all those lovely little landscape paintings that people do and which get completely ignored by any serious art gallery - because fundamentally they have nothing interesting to say about life today. I mean, there are things who's meaning endures and that's why these pictures are still appreciated by so many. However in the art world, to be taken seriously, art has to aspire to do more than repeat the past over and over again. Traditional painting is only interesting in the art critical world if it has something new to say or something relevant to todays world. This I think is what all these new directors are straining after. I"ve never seen a modern version of an opera so I don't know how I would feel about it either but there seems to be a push coming from somewhere in the world to make opera more cutting edge, make it say more than what it has said over and over again.
As you say , if as a performer you are a pawn in someone else artistic vision and have no desire to be part of that cutting edge, then you may feel abused by the process. So then as you say, it makes sense to leave it behind. But aren't there still plenty of stagings that are not being treated this way.
btw, I have just found your opera videos and love them as they tie in well with my own lessons. I hope you will keep making more.
Aacha I loved your comment and insights. I have a visual arts background and am now pursuing music, like you. I’m not in opera; my style is more contemporary but still influenced by Western classical and traditional musics.
These are topics I’ve thought about myself. I’ve never been interested in joining the contemporary art world because I am fundamentally opposed to modernism and postmodernism - ethically and personally - and the art world, at least last time I checked, is very much within these paradigms.
The point you make about the art world only being interested in artwork if it is novel or comments on current societal issues is interesting. I recall reading Arthur Danto in design school who said that art has basically become philosophy, which is indeed what you see in conceptual art. That being the case, it seems much more direct to just do philosophy.
I think the sentiment that Freya, myself and a lot of other people are expressing is that ‘establishment art’ is fundamentally out of step with, or not interested in, most people’s idea of beauty. It’s like beauty and classical forms have become ‘old hat’ - something embarrassing and boring. This is I think a ploy - deliberate or not - to make people doubt themselves and their artistic potential, and as such is damaging and counterproductive.
I think novelty is important and interesting, but so is the human spirit. In art, I will always pursue what resonates most strongly with me, what I love, regardless of what the rest of the world is doing. An artist always has to be true to themselves, as that is the way to become the best artist they can be. On this subject, Freya recently did a video on the importance of not trying to sound like other singers, which I think is great and definitely sends the right message.
@@dianamjackson I agree with you 100٪.
The art establishment is constantly subverting anything that could be beautiful through the ages. It seems more about creating an acute dissonance. This, I believe, is why they force composition majors to write atonal pieces. My older brother was a such a student and, when his atonal piece was to be performed, he commented to me and our parents that, "if he gets any of it wrong, I don't think even I would know."
That push towards dissonance also says something about the philosophy that the art establishment pushes. Rather than striving for harmony and something beautiful (whether the subject be happy, tragic, or raging), they push for dissonance and subversion. It seems rather devious, and not in a good way.
@@IngenuousSoprano Yes, devious! I would use even harsher words. I'm glad I stuck to my guns because in reading about archetypal reality -- in Carl Jung and Christopher Bache for example, and Plato -- it's clear that archetypes 'drive' our reality (including spacetime, so they're a REALLY big deal!) and these archetypes include harmony, order and balance.
Therefore, the pushers of dissonance and subversion are either actively trying to blind people to the reality of archetypes, or just unthinkingly toeing the party line.
*One thing that could justify a love of dissonance is that it can be interesting, and novelty in life is important. But I feel it needs to be *balanced* by harmony and other archetypal, eternal forms.