A year after Das geopferte Leben, Hèctor Parra has stepped up to the plate with his new opera, Wilde, premiered at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR under the direction of Peter Rundel, with staging by Calixto Bieito.

Hèctor Parra chose to base his work on the theatrical work by Klaus Händl, Wilde oder der Mann mit den traurigen Augen, from which he asked the author himself to write an adaptation for opera, entitled Wilde.

Reviews of Wilde:

"A masterpiece." Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Impressive Wilde in Schwetzingen. An exciting evening. Text, music, staging and interpretation succeed in the best possible way." Mannheimer Morgen

"Within Parra's music there is a great power of seduction." Südkurier

"Sensual vocal lines. Very eloquent and ghostly waving mysterious sounds. An exciting evening, for which all participants were enthusiastically received." Rhein-Neckar Zeitung

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