On the eve of the premiere of the opera "Lohengrin", which will open the Wagner Festival of the Sofia Opera and Ballet on June 13, Kammersängerin Anna Tomowa-Sintow sent an emotional message to the whole team. Ms Sintow is an award-winning Wagner interpreter and accepted the invitation of the opera's director Plamen Kartaloff to work with the singers on the artistic and stylistic preparation of the roles.
"Lohengrin" is a positive work, instructive through a very large other realm that we humans can't very truly encompass. The light rises above the darkness, despite the thorns," she said.
"The work ends in major – a victory of the positive over the negative. Very topical for today I would say. In "Lohengrin" there's this foresight from Wagner, of what level we humans are at – the positive and the light win. We're going through hell. That's the truth and it doesn't happen without that.
The tree idea is brilliant, absolutely brilliant. The tree is always a symbol of life. And the opera ends positively. The light stays above the darkness from any position. That's what Lohengrin manages to do – on earth to help people, to illuminate them, and in the sense of Wagner, who put it all in – his deepest feelings are in his music.
May God pave the way for all these wonderful ideas and thoughts to be realized on stage.
I venture to share what I feel very strongly about Wagner himself. Good luck for everything you have in mind! Strength, health to you all. In this case I am selfish too, especially for the singers, for managing what they have as a task. They get to manifest on stage. With God's will and power forward," Sintow wished.