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Multimedia director for Mathis der Maler
2017
Multimedia director for Mathis der Maler
Bucharest
The highlight of these Palace concerts had come when Festival stalwart Lawrence Foster conducted a concert performance of Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler. That the premise of an artist caught between social and creative action, in the midst of cultural upheaval, is as relevant today as it was eighty or indeed 380 years ago can hardly be gainsaid. This comparatively rare opportunity to hear complete an opera as ranks with the finest of the past century was its own justification and the present account did not disappoint.
Carmen Lidia Vidu’s multimedia backdrop – incorporating English synopses of each tableau into its interplay of Mathis Grünewald’s artwork with abstract visuals – enhanced the music without distracting from it. The audience thinned out by the close, but this remained a vindication of Foster’s belief in a significant opera and also the Enescu Festival for having made it possible.
(Richard Whitehouse, Classical Source)
Carmen Lidia Vidu’s multimedia backdrop – incorporating English synopses of each tableau into its interplay of Mathis Grünewald’s artwork with abstract visuals – enhanced the music without distracting from it. The audience thinned out by the close, but this remained a vindication of Foster’s belief in a significant opera and also the Enescu Festival for having made it possible.
(Richard Whitehouse, Classical Source)
