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| German Barihunk Dominik Köninger |
Director Barrie Kosky has done it again, with another highly original production of a long lost piece of musical theater. His highly entertaining
The Pearls of Cleopatra (Die Perlen der Cleopatra) by Oscar Straus is destined to become one of the major hits in any opera house this year. The piece has been on the shelves for more than eighty year and is now
viewable on the OperaPlatform. There are additional performances at the Komische Oper on December 15, 19 and 21.
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| German Barihunk Dominik Köninger and Dagmar Manzel |
Kosky has been reviving works by composers who fled the Nazis, which Strauss did in 1939 following the Nazi Anschluss. He fled to Paris and eventually to Hollywood. After the war, he returned to Europe, and settled at Bad Ischl, where he died. Straus' best-known works are
Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream), and
The Chocolate Soldier (Der tapfere Soldat). He may be best remembered for composing the theme song from the 1950 film
La Ronde.
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| Dancers and extras from The Pearls of Cleopatra |
In the comedic
The Pearls of Cleopatra, the queen longs for a ‘little Egyptian flirting’ to lift her mood. The permanent drought and the armies
of the Roman Empire at the Egyptian borders have given her quite a
headache. So she flirts with the Syrian prince Beladonis and takes
Silvius, the Roman ambassador, as her new lover. International or
intimate relations – the most beautiful queen of the world holds sway
over the hearts of all men. Could the pearls be the secret to her power.
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| German Barihunk Dominik Köninger |
In this production, German barihunk Dominik Köninger sings the role of the Roman Officer, who is shown in a number of pretty sexy situations throughout the operetta. There are also plenty of scantily clad, energetic performers on stage, adding to the lively Cabaret feel of the pre-Nazi Weimar Republic.
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