Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron
by Reto Nickler
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Actor: Daniele Gatti, Franz Grundheber, Ildiko Raimondi, Peter Jelosits, Thomas MoserDirector: Reto Nickler
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: ArtHaus
Movie Reviews of Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron
Movie Review: We are All the Children of Israel...
Summary: 4 Stars
... at least by analogy, extrapolation, or allegory. Witness the conviction held by both the Hanoverians and the Jacobites in England, when Handel was writing "Saul" and "Esther," that they were the new Chosen People, each righteously entitled to exterminate the other. I take Arnold Sch?nberg's single opera "Moses and Aron" to be more an allegory of Humanity, in its folly unready to surrender the old securities of revealed religion or to accept the unsensuous consolations of modern relativism. One of the rewards of relativism, of course, is that YOU can formulate your own interpretation of this most philosophical of all operas.
It's widely maintained that Aron and Moses was never finished, that Sch?nberg intended a third act but couldn't wrap it up. Personally, I find the ending as staged here by the Vienna State Opera very satisfactory. Moses sitting alone in desolation on the stage, murmuring about his failure to express the inexpressible, to wring finite meaning out of infinity.
My friend from Utah!, Y.P., has scooped me in his modest objections to the staging. The music has to be strong to pin my eyes and ears to a TV screen for 110 minutes, with all the clumsy shuffling! So much shoving and lurching, and yet so static! The Slovak Philharmonic Chorus needs a serious workshop in body awareness. And I was really looking forward to the four naked hussies copulating with the Golden Calf! Luckily the music is strong - very strong, even if the orchestra lacked transparency - and unique. The pairing of a speaking actor, Moses, and a singing actor, Aron, orating simultaneously is electrifying. Thomas Moser sings his role of Aron with just enough diffident insecurity and strain to sound like Yahweh's second fiddle.
Another level of allegory: Sch?nberg certainly considered himself the Moses of music, leading the orchestra out of bondage to late classical/romantic tonal chromaticism into the Promised Land of serialism. How shocking to find that I'm no longer shocked. This opera and Berg's Violin Concerto, to my ears, are the most affective and commodious of all twelve-tone compositions.
Perhaps a more polished CD performance would satisfy many Sch?nberg devotees, but I like opera on DVD. Even the sight of a bunch of stodgy Slovaks in black suits and yarmulkas shaped like fezes clumping about on stage helps me shut out other sounds and thoughts.
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