Cologne - The Shocker-staging of the opera "Samson et Dalila": 28 singers ill, jumped three soloists, because it calls for the extreme scenes of violence, the director Tilman Knabe, not endured. Where is the question: What should an actor can be anything really like it?
By law - just about everything. make "He must be, what does the director, said Verdi spokesman Martin Nees:" This is the Directorate of law - anything that does not violate the law and is covered by the contract of employment must be carried out. "
The know, if we chose this profession, according to Peter F. Raddatz, Executive Director of the stages: "As actors we must be prepared to come on stage in extreme situations. We do know that it's only a game. "Rolf Bolwin supplemented by the German Theatre Association:" By legal measures can not solve such problems as in "Samson et Dalila '."
The only go when the director motivate the troops, white ex-director Marc Gunther: "If you do not succeed in doing this, not the actor playing with conviction and fervor. This is lighter than the spectacle of the opera. Since you have many people on stage, which would be a concert version better. "
The fact that we deal with especially sensitive to the portrayal of violence must also have all three agree. This seems indeed the problem in "Samson et Dalila to be:" We are unprepared, was confronted with scenes of violence. There were no accompanying words, "a singer to EXPRESS.
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