opera finale - Oper Frankfurt

June 14th 2016
OPERA FINALE - WIENER MODERNE
EVENTS LINKED TO ALBAN BERG'S WOZZECK, ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG'S PIERROT
LUNAIRE AND MICHAEL LANGEMANN'S ANNA TOLL - OR THE LOVE OF THE FAITHFUL
Opera Finale, a series of events linked to the last new production of the season, or in this case the
last two – one in the Opera the House, the other in the Bockenheimer Depot –, began in 2007/08,
dedictated to Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio (2008), Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina (2009), Hector
Berliozʼ Damnation of Faust (2010), Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo (2011), Igor Stravinsky's The Rakeʼs
Progress (2012), Giuseppe Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers (2013), Frederick Deliusʼ A Villiage Romeo
and Juliet (2014) and Bohuslav Martinů's Julietta and Three One Act Operas (2015). The focus of the
2016 Finale, titled Wiener Moderne (Vienna at the turn of the last century), is on Alban Berg's
Wozzeck in the Opera House and a double bill of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire and Michael
Langemann's Anna Toll - oder Die Liebe der Treue in the Bockenheimer Depot. These events take
place between June 12 to July 17 2016.
Vienna in 1900 was a time of conflict between tradition and new beginnings. The city, influenced by
Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler for a century, had turned into
an experimental laboratory of modern music. It was Mahler, the last great composer of classical
symphonies, who described this spirit of exploration: Tradition, he said, is “the handing over of fire,
not worshipping ashes”. While Sigmund Freud was developing psychoanalysis, painters' works were
becoming more expressionstic and abstract, Dadaism freed words and their meaning from rigid
grammatical rules and music, atonal at first, and later twelve-tone, was devised by the Viennese
shoemaker's son Arnold Schönberg. It was he who founded the second Viennese school. The atonal
and twelve-tone revolution, which gave every tone in the chromatic scale equal rights, was deemed
to be a scandalous break with European music history. Schönberg and his pupils Alban Berg and
Anton Webern gradually brought a radical new sound language into being. The following events,
linked to the last new productions of the 2015/16 season in the Opera House and Bockenheimer
Depot, will investigate one other most exciting stages of 20th century avant-garde.
Sunday June 12th 2016, at 11.00hrs in the Holzfoyer
Wilder Lust Akkorde stören… / Wild Lusty Chords are disturbing…
Chamber Music in the Foyer linked to the new production of Pierrot lunaire and Anna Toll
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major KV 370
Arnold Schönberg: String Trio op. 45
Franz Schubert: String Trio movement B-Dur D 471
Benjamin Britten: Phantasy Quartet op. 2
with Johannes Grosso (oboe), Guillaume Faraut (violine), Megumi Kasakawa (viola),
Nika Brnic (cello), Mario Riemer (cello)
€ 13 / € 6.50 with reduction (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
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Sunday June 19th 2016, at 11.00hrs in the Holzfoyer
Opera extra
Introductory talk about the new production of Wozzeck
With generous support from the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper
€ 14 / € 7 with reduction (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Sunday June 26th 2016, at 18.00hrs in the Opera House
Premiere
Wozzeck
Opera in three acts by Alban Berg
Sung in German with German surtitles
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle; Director: Christof Loy
Cast: Audun Iversen (Wozzeck), Vincent Wolfsteiner (Drum-Major),
Martin Mitterrutzner (Andres), Peter Bronder (Captain), Alfred Reiter (Doctor),
Thomas Faulkner (1st Apprentice), Iurii Samoilov (2nd Apprentice),
Martin Wölfel (Fool), Claudia Mahnke (Marie), Katharina Magiera (Margret)
Further performances: June 30th, July 2nd, 6th, 9th, 13th 2016
Unless otherwise stated, all these performances begin at 19.30hrs
With generous support from the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper
€ 19 to € 165 / € 9.50 to € 82.50 with reduction
(with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Sunday June 26th 2016, at 11.00hrs in the Bockenheimer Depot
Opera extra
Introductory talk about the new double bill: Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire
and Michael Langemann's Anna Toll - oder Die Liebe der Treue
With generous support from the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper
€ 14 / € 7 with reduction (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Sunday June 26th (opens after Opera extra) to Sunday July 17th 2016 in the Bockenheimer Depot
Schönbergʼs Pierrot lunaire – a key to modern music
Exhibition
Entrance free
Sunday June 26th 2016, at 16.00hrs in the Holzfoyer
Lecture about Alban Bergs Wozzeck
Speaker: Chief Dramaturge Norbert Abels
Entrance free
Monday June 27th 2016, at 19.30hrs in the Holzfoyer
Largo desolato
Wiener Moderne Chamber Music
Works for string quartet by Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky and Anton Webern
and Lieder by Arnold Schönberg and Gustav Mahler
with the Hindemith Quartet and Members of the Opera Studio
€ 13 / € 6.50 with reduction (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Wednesday July 6th 2016, in the Holzfoyer after the performance of Wozzeck
Opera in Dialogue
Singers from the production and Chief Dramaturge Norbert Abels in dialogue with the audience
€ 12 / € 6 with reduction (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Thursday July 7th 2016, at 18.45hrs in the Bockenheimer Depot
A conversation with Michael Langemann
Host: Chief Dramaturge Norbert Abels
Entrance free
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Thursday July 7th 2016, at 19.30hrs in the Bockenheimer Depot
Premiere / World Premiere
Pierrot lunaire
Three times seven melodramas from Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire op. 21 by Arnold Schönberg
Anna Toll - oder Die Liebe der Treue
Operetta in seven scenes by Michael Langemann (*1983)
Performed in German with German surtitles
Conductor: Nikolai Petersen;
Director Pierrot lunaire: Dorothea Kirschbaum; Director Anna Toll: Hans Walter Richter
Cast Pierrot lunaire: Laura Aikin (Voice), David Laera (A young man)
Cast Anna Toll: Nora Friedrichs (Maxi), Elizabeth Reiter (Anna Toll), Nina Tarandek (Ilona),
Ludwig Mittelhammer (Carlo), Simon Bode (Gabriel), Magnús Baldvinsson (Baron Diebl), Dominic Betz (Arthur)
Further performances: July 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 16th, 17th 2016
Unless otherwise stated, all these performances begin at 19.30hrs
Anna Toll was commissioned by Oper Frankfurt
With generous support from the Aventis Foundation
€ 20 to € 75 / € 10 to € 37.50 with reduction
(with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Sunday July 10th 2016, at 11.00hrs in the Holzfoyer
Wahre Kunst ist kalt / True Art is cold
Symposion about Second Viennese School operas
Names of guests will be announced when known
€ 13 / € 6.50 with reduction / includes catering
(with a 12.5% pre-booking fee if not purchased direct from the theatre)
Tuesday July 12th 2016, at 19.30hrs in the Haus am Dom
Wenn wir in Himmel kämen… / If we get to heaven...
From Georg Büchner to Alban Berg
Speakers: Dr. Stefan Scholz (Referat Kunst und Kultur / Haus am Dom)
and Prof. Dr. Norbert Abels (Chefdramaturg / Oper Frankfurt)
Co-production with the Haus am Dom
Entrance free
Tickets for these events (excluding those where entrance is free) are available at the usual outlets,
online www.oper-frankfurt.de or through Ticket-Hotline +49 (0)69 – 212 49 49 4.
I do hope you might be able to cover this event.
For further information, ordering photographs and reserving your press tickets please contact me
on +49 (0)69 - 212 46 727. My fax number is +49 (0)69 - 212 37 164, or you can reach me by
email: [email protected].
With best wishes
Holger Engelhardt
Pressereferent
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