As "A Woman", actress Martina Gedeck ("Helgoland") will stand up to the devil on the stage of the Saxon State Opera in October. The 63-year-old will make her debut at the Dresden Semperoper in this role at the premiere of Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele" on September 28. "My character is the antagonist of Mephisto," Gedeck told the German Press Agency. "I am the one who says that life exists and makes sense, with everything that goes with it." Director Eva-Maria-Höckmayr added the role to the production of the 19th-century work based on Goethe's Faust poems.
The opposing principle is "the creative, the life-oriented, the devotion, the openness, the empathy", Gedeck described her part. In this way, she repeatedly takes on the inner form of Faust or Mephisto from time to time, sometimes speaking from their souls. "The texts are what Faust is feeling at the moment or could apply to Mephisto or Margarete." The nameless woman she plays brings to the fore "what is tangible in the opera, but not necessarily visible".
Gedeck has been working with musicians for years
Gedeck is familiar with working in the musical field, having combined language and music in her own projects such as concert readings and pieces with orchestra for years. "That's a good prerequisite for the opera stage," she says. Unlike acting, you are bound to the music, which she has always liked. "The music provides structure, rhythm, atmosphere", without it you are "more in free fall".
