Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann

10.05.2019

Opera production

Overview

Les amours fous - with the doll, the terminally ill girl who is not allowed to sing, and finally with the courtesan Giulietta in the shallows of the Venetian demimonde - pervade the narrative that begins when the punch is lit..

Musical direction
Gernot Sahler (10.5. / 11.5. / 13.5.) Shun Oi (14.5.,1st and 2nd act) Giulio Cilona (14.5., 3rd act) Ruben Hawer (14.5., 4th and 5th act) Stage direction
Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes
Lisa Behensky, Theresa Staindl Dramaturgy
Malte Krasting Chorus direction
Stefan Müller

About production

Opera fantastique by Jacques Offenbach -
Libretto by Jules Barbier after the drama by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Jacques Offenbach - given the honorable title "Mozart of the Champs-Elysées" by Rossini - worked intensively on "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", marked by illness and in a race against death. When he died on October 5, 1880, he left behind an enormous torso of various versions and sketches. The attempts of his contemporaries to reconstruct the work and bring it to performance turn into something adventurous themselves: a theater burns down, parts of Offenbach's autograph fall victim to the flames, decades later versions thought to be lost reappear, even an entire finale that ends the Giulietta act completely differently than previously assumed. Thus, a kaleidoscope of possibilities opens up for each reinterpretation. The subject is actually based on tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann. "Here, place and hour are themselves ghosts and spirits. People live locked in them until they suffocate. " (Theodor W. Adorno)

The opera class of Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler brings the work to the stage of the Mozarteum in a condensed and pointed version, concentrated on material that has been safely handed down.

Dates & Cast

10. May 2019, 19.00
11. May 2019, 17.00
13. May 2019, 19.00
14. May 2019. 7.00 p.m
max Schlereth Hall

Hoffmann: Nutthaporn Thammathi (10.5. / 13.5.) Gabriel Arce (11.5. / 14.5.) Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto: Daniel Weiler (10.5. / 13.5.) Konstantin Riedl (11.5. / 14.5.) Nathanae¨l/Spalanzani/Schlémil: Benjamin Sattlecker (10.5. / 13.5.) Kristjan-Jaanek Mölder (11.5. / 14.5.) Crespel: Clemens Joswig (10.5. / 13.5.) Oscar Marin-Reyes (11.5. / 14.5.) Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio: Johannes Hubmer (10.5. / 11.5. / 13.5. / 5/14) Olympia: Ornella de Luca (5/10 / 5/13) Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns (5/11 / 5/14) Antonia: Sejin Park (5/10 / 5/13) Anne Reich (5/11 / 5/14.) Giulietta: Ays¸e S¸enogul (10.5. / 13.5.) Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir (11.5. / 14.5.) La Muse/Nicklausse: Maria Hegele (10.5. / 13.5.) Vera Maria Bitter (11.5. / 14.5.) La Voix de la Mère: Ekaterina Bocharova (10.5. / 13.5.) Inês Constantino (11.5. / 14.5.) Chorus: Delia Bachler, Solitaire Bachhuber, Anna Baumgartner, Valentin Bedrich, Ines Rocha Constantino, Alicia Grünwald, Lala Hajili, Marianna Herzig, Donata MeyerKranixfeld, Margarita Polonskaia, Mats Hendrik Roolvink, Sandra Šarikovait, Dominik Wolfgang Schumertl, Serafina Starke, Laura Thaller, Emil Ugrinov, Dariel Ugrinov, Juan Villanueva

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