Name: Benjamin Button
Start: 2024-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Musiktheater

Organization

Landestheater Linz Musiktheater

Conductor

Ingmar Beck

Stage director

Hermann Schneider

Set designer

Dieter Richter

Costume designer

Meentje Nielsen

Dramaturge

Anna Maria Jurisch

Chorus master

Elena Pierini

Singer

Martin Achrainer

Benjamin Button

Carina Tybjerg Madsen

Hildegarde Moncrief (später Granny Hildegarde)

Angela Simkin

Hildegarde als Kind

Sophie Bareis

Harlekin

Zuzana Petrasová

Ente

Martin Enger Holm

Hase

Felix Lodel

Teddy

Jonathan Hartzendorf

Erster Zeitungsjunge

Alexander York

Zweiter Zeitungsjunge

Michael Wagner

Mr. Button, Vater

Matthäus Schmidlechner

Doktor Keene

Gotho Griesmeier

Mrs. Button

Fenja Lukas

Kindermädchen I

Manuela Leonhartsberger

Hausmädchen I

Kindermädchen II

Hausmädchen II

Others

Choir of the Landestheater Linz

Orchestra

Bruckner Orchester Linz

Children's and youth choir of the Linz Landestheater

Sebastian Strasser

Benji I (der junge Benjamin)

Gabriel Federspieler

Benji II (der junge Benjamin)

Christian Körner

Benedikt Ofner

German

Linz

Austria

Musiktheater

Großer Saal

Benjamin Button Febel

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

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Flutist

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Musette de cour Player

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1860 erblickt in Baltimore Benjamin Button nicht als süßer kleiner Fratz das Licht der Welt, sondern als bärtiger Greis. Sein Schicksal ist ihm vorherbestimmt: Er durchläuft das Leben rückwärts und wird von Tag zu Tag jünger. Als er schließlich im Alter von fünfzig Jahren die beinahe dreißig Jahre jüngere Hildegarde kennenlernt, steht für ihn alles auf dem Spiel, da er bislang aufgrund seiner speziellen Lebensumstände von der Gesellschaft ausgegrenzt und noch nie geliebt wurde. Die Liebe zu Hildegarde kann nicht dauern, denn während sie unaufhaltsam altert, wird Benjamin immer jünger, bis er schließlich im Haus seines eigenen Sohnes zum Baby wird.

Es war der Schriftsteller F. Scott Fitzgerald, der diese Begebenheit in einer skurril-originellen Kurzgeschichte aus dem Jahr 1922 berichtet. 2008 wurde sie mit Brad Pitt in der Hauptrolle erfolgreich verfilmt. Nun adaptiert Reinhard Febel, der lange Jahre als Kompositionsprofessor am Salzburger Mozarteum gewirkt hat, diese humorig-eindrückliche Reflexion über die Phänomene Zeit, Identität, Alter, Jugend, Werden und Vergehen auch für die Opernbühne.

Deutsch

In 1860, Benjamin Button was born in Baltimore not as a cute little brat, but as a bearded old man. His fate is predetermined for him: he goes through life backwards and gets younger day by day. When, at the age of fifty, he finally meets Hildegarde, who is almost thirty years his junior, everything is at stake for him, as he has previously been excluded from society and never loved due to his special living conditions. The love for Hildegarde cannot last, because while she ages inexorably, Benjamin becomes younger and younger until he finally becomes a baby in the house of his own son.

It was the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who reported this incident in a bizarre and original short story from 1922. It was made into a successful film in 2008 with Brad Pitt in the lead role. Now Reinhard Febel, who worked as a composition professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum for many years, is adapting this humorous and impressive reflection on the phenomena of time, identity, age, youth, growth and decay for the opera stage.

English

Benjamin Button by Febel, Sun 26 May 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Hermann Schneider,, Conductor Ingmar Beck, Benedikt Ofner, Musiktheater, Linz, Austria

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