Dissonance

La couleur des Soldats

An interview with Susanne Elmark, interpret of the role of Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten

David Verdier
In this interview, Susanne Elmark, incarnating Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten at the Zürich opera in the fall of 2013, answers David Verdier’s questions: What is the impact of such a role on her career? How to handle the scenic violence of the piece? How to approach a contemporary piece of this amplitude?

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