Baroque – alienated intense

A "pasticcio" is announced - a quodlibet of catchy Handel melodies from operas and oratorios. What can be experienced is an immensely stimulating scenario of opulent baroque atmosphere, astonishing "asceticism" and inimitably lustfully alienated music. Nicola Hümpel and her actors ("Nico and the Navigators") make the fulminant exaltations of Handel's time ravishingly clear in their musical selection and their interplay of exalted physicality - and are congenially musically accompanied by Fanui, the Tyrolean Music Ensemble, which surprises with striking sounds - without disavowing the Handel genius. About forty passages from Handel's works are presented - excellently performed by Theresa Dlouhy with a clear soprano, Terry Wey with a brilliant countertenor and Clemens Koelbl with a profound bass-baritone - and fascinatingly and physically transformed into scenic elements by the furious ensemble of actors. The group Fanui - a "Musicbanda" with a unique mixture of woodwinds and brass, string instruments and strings from the East Tyrolean Innervillgraten - ignites a firework of alienated Handel music, congenially baroque-celebrating, especially with deep brass folk music alienating. This is done with ravishing virtuosity, allowing Handel's spectacular successes to become emotionally clear in their indisputable fascination in joyful playing. Oliver Proske creates with clear contouring elements a communicative stage space, which offers room for the intensive action - and positions the Fanui strikingly. In the "new theater Halle" - Peter Sodann's "monument" of Halle's theater life as a cultural center of the city - a highly motivated audience gathers, is able to intensively engage with the presentation, singing and music as an "alternative" Handel performance - and gives enthusiastic applause! A surprising variation of the otherwise so sublime Handel tribute.

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