June 21st 2016 DOUBLE BILL IN THE BOCKENHEIMER DEPOT: SCHÖNBERG'S PIERROT LUNAIRE AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF LANGEMANN'S ANNA TOLL Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to invite you to the opening night (or a later performance) of the thirteenth, and last, new production in Oper Frankfurt's 2015/16 season: 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 (OR THE LOVE OF THE FAITHFUL) Operetta in seven scenes by Michael Langemann (*1983) Text by the composer based on Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol and Peter Altenberg's Märchen des Lebens (Tales of Life) Commissioned by Oper Frankfurt Sung in German with German surtitles Conductor: Nikolai Petersen Director Pierrot lunaire: Dorothea Kirschbaum Director Anna Toll: Hans Walter Richter Stage and Costume Designer: Bernhard Niechotz Lighting Designer: Jan Hartmann Choreography: David Laera Dramaturge Pierrot lunaire: Konrad Kuhn Dramaturge Anna Toll: Norbert Abels With generous support from the Aventis Foundation I do hope you might be able to cover this event. 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With many thanks in advance for your cooperation and best wishes Holger Engelhardt Pressereferent 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 (OR THE LOVE OF THE FAITHFUL) Operetta in seven scenes by Michael Langemann (*1983) Text by the composer based on Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol and Peter Altenberg's Märchen des Lebens (Tales of Life) Commissioned by Oper Frankfurt Sung in German with German surtitles Conductor: Nikolai Petersen Director Pierrot lunaire: Dorothea Kirschbaum / Director Anna Toll: Hans Walter Richter Stage and Costume Designer: Bernhard Niechotz Lighting Designer: Jan Hartmann Choreography: David Laera Dramaturge Pierrot lunaire: Konrad Kuhn / Dramaturge Anna Toll: Norbert Abels Pierrot lunaire Voice: Laura Aikin A young man: David Laera Anna Toll Maxi: Nora Friedrichs Anna Toll: Elizabeth Reiter Ilona: Nina Tarandek Carlo: Ludwig Mittelhammer Gabriel: Simon Bode Baron Diebl: Magnús Baldvinsson Arthur: Dominic Betz Oper Frankfurt's Extras; Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester With generous support from the Aventis Foundation While working on Pierrot lunaire, inspired by poems by the Belgian writer Albert Giraud published in 1884, Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) found a new form of expression: an atonal, atmospheric composed and spoken language with extraordinary treatment of the voice, the first time the artistic form of „Sprechgesang“ appeared in one of Schönberg's works. He was inspired to compose the piece by the actress Albertine Zehme, who performed in the very successful World Premiere on October 16th 1912 in Berlin. Six months later the shocking nature of the work caused a scandal in the Rudolfinum in Prague. The composer Michael Langemann, born in Moscow in 1983 and a pupil of Manfred Trojahn and George Benjamin, moves Arthur Schnitzler's well known one act Anatol – also based on breezy, impressionistic sketches by the flâneur Peter Altenberg – to the slightly snobbish, melancholic and erotomanic existence in our times, which no longer favours only male libertinage. Anatol turns into Anna Toll. The subject matter, carried by a chamber orchestra sound language, filled with innuendo, in which the figures are delicately portrayed, begins with a fateful hour: A baron discovers that his wife is having an affair. Threatening violence, he forces her to telephone her lover and tell him to come to her. She, however, decides to warn him. The husband realises that she loves his rival unconditionally and lets her go. Anna is tortured by doubts about her lover's faithfulness. She and Maxi decide to hypnotise him in order to find out the truth… The conductor is Nikolai Petersen, a soloists coach in Frankfurt since 2012 who enjoyed great success at the end of the 2014/15 season conducting three one act operas by Martinů. Dorothea Kirschbaum directs Pierrot lunaire. A director’s assistant at Oper Frankfurt (since 2013/14) who has thrilled young audiences with Opera for Children productions in the Holzfoyer and semi-staged performances of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin and Lehár's Der Graf von Luxemburg in the main auditorium. Another director's assistant (since 2008), Hans-Walter Richter, is staging Anna Toll. Recent productions, staged by him, have included Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix and Holst's Savitri at the Stadttheater Gießen. The renowned American soprano Laura Aikin is back in Frankfurt, where she has sung Konstanze in Mozart's Entführung, for Pierrot lunaire with the dancer and choreographer David Laera (A young man). She recently enjoyed great success singing Emilia Marty in Janáček's The Makropoulos Case at the Vienna State Opera. The cast of Anna Toll is made up almost entirely of current and former Members of Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio and Ensemble. This season's Opera Finale is dedicted to the Wiener Moderne (Vienna at the turn of the last century), which includes Schönberg and his works. Premiere / World Premiere: Thursday July 7th 2016, at 19.30hrs in the Bockenheimer Depot Further performances: July 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 16th, 17th 2016, which all begin at 19.30hrs Tickets cost: € 20 to € 75 (with a 12.5% pre-booking fee when not purchased direct from the theatre) Tickets can be obtained from the usual outlets, by telephone +49 (0)69 – 212 49 49 4 or online www.oper-frankfurt.de.
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