Vasco AraùjoSabine/Brunhilde
2003
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°1975, Lisbon
lives in Lisbon
http://www.vascoaraujo.org
In Sabine/Brunhilde he makes an explicit transition between reality and staging. Sabine is pathetically real, Brunhilde exuberantly Wagnerian. Sabine is a German woman living in Portugal. She sees her life as a string of repeated setbacks: a bad relationship with her parents, a failing love life, a disappointment of a husband, in short, depressing situations. Nothing cheers her up except for opera, but also here she is thwarted by her surrounding. Nevertheless, she perseveres. To her, singing is an act of resistance, a short escape from the disillusionments, an imaginary transit zone into to which she retreats from time to time for a sense of freedom and happiness.
Brunhilde is a rebellious child of god from the Germanic legend that inspired Richard Wagner to write an opera in four parts, Der Ring des Nibelungen. In the second part, Die Walküre, about the nine daughters of Wotan, she plays the leading part. She violates the ban of her father to help a pregnant sister, he degrades her to a plain mortal, and, put to sleep, she is forced to marry the first man to find her. Sabine and Brunhilde become one, as a woman deprived by fate and confronted with the harsh and earthly reality.
In the first video Sabine we see how Sabine tries to master the difficult and demanding main aria by Brunhilde in Die Walküre. In the second video Brunhilde Sabine tells the story of her life to a psychiater, subdivided into acts and scenes, like in a Wagnerian opera.