“Salome”: Star singer Angela Denoke is now directing
Was Triebe Denoke in too? Does she want to show all the directors under whom she had to sing how “Salome” should be interpreted correctly? “Yes, I am strangely asked this question again and again,” she tells BR: “I have to say that as Salome you are so attached to the role that you can only portray it if you can become one with it. I’ve always tried to find a way with the directors to implement their wishes in terms of acting without having to deny myself. Even with productions with which I perhaps didn’t quite agree.”
“I have not had any negative experiences”
She was “always very open” to directorial concepts, according to the soprano, who became an Austrian chamber singer in 2009: “I find it exciting that you get involved with the perspective of a director. It would be boring if we all wanted the same thing.”
Shortly before the premiere on February 12, her Innsbruck experiences are also consistently good, she has no authority problems in her new role at the director’s desk: “I have the feeling that the singers trust me. So far I have had no negative experiences at all. On the contrary “I was pleased with how actively everyone cooperated with me, including the gentlemen from the choir and the extras. I’m treated with great openness, I think that’s very nice.”
“It’s different every time”
Incidentally, Angela Denoke, who was born in the Hanseatic city of Stade in Lower Saxony, will also work as a singer, i.e. “commute” between the music theater activities. And she values a certain discipline, even with guest stars: “Well, these productions, where the singers really only arrive shortly before the premiere, I honestly don’t think they’re serious. As an actor, you really have to work on a role in the respective production, even if you’ve sung it fifty times. It’s different every time. It is part of our job to deal with it. I don’t believe in latecomers at all. Of course there are exceptions, even my singers weren’t there all the time during the rehearsals, but there was enough time to be able to divide it up.”