Name: Intermezzo
Start: 2024-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Conductor

Donald Runnicles

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Stefan Woinke

Video designer

Jonas Dahl

Dramaturge

Jörg Königsdorf

Singer

Soprano

Maria Bengtsson

His Wife

Tenor

Thomas Blondelle

Baron Lummer

Baritone

Markus Brück

The Notary

Bass

Joel Allison

Commercial Councillor

Tobias Kehrer

A Celebrated Singer

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Clemens Bieber

Kapellmeister Stroh

Nadine Secunde

Die Notarin

Simon Pauly

Legal Councillor

Anna Schoeck

Anna

Dominic Limburg

Flurina Stucki

Gerard Farreras

Spoken

Elliott Woodruff

Franzi

Philipp Jekal

Hofkapellmeister Robert Storch

Emil Pyhrr

Lilit Davtyan

Resi

Meechot Marrero

Janic Bebi

Corinna Ruba

Silent

Marie

Therese

German

Intermezzo

Berlin

Germany

Intermezzo Strauss

Public

English

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

An der Deutschen Oper Berlin ist INTERMEZZO der Mittelteil einer Richard-Strauss-Trilogie, in der Regisseur Tobias Kratzer verschiedene Stadien einer Paarbeziehung unter die Lupe nimmt. Nachdem in ARABELLA die Schwierigkeiten des Beginns Thema waren, widmet sich INTERMEZZO nun den „Mühen der Ebene“. Und wie in ARABELLA entdeckt Kratzer auch hier eine Modernität, die den Stoff auch für das 21. Jahrhundert interessant macht: Auf der einen Seite die Frau, die nach einem Lebensinhalt jenseits der Gattinnenrolle sucht und sich doch nicht von ihrem Mann lösen kann, auf der anderen Seite der Mann, der seine Dominanz auch dadurch demonstriert, indem er seine Frau zur Kunstfigur macht und dadurch seine Sicht der Beziehung verewigt. Denn nicht zuletzt setzt Strauss hier dem eigenen Künstlertum in Gestalt umfangreicher sinfonischer Zwischenspiele ein Denkmal – und auch das wird Thema der Inszenierung sein.

Deutsch

INTERMEZZO is the middle element in a Richard Strauss trilogy running at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in which director Tobias Kratzer shines a spotlight on phases in the trajectory of a relationship. Following on from ARABELLA, which explored the difficulties of courtship, INTERMEZZO studies the “wearisome lowlands”. And as with ARABELLA Kratzer makes out a modernity in the material that transfers well to the 21st century: on the one hand we have a woman looking for meaning beyond that of a wife but unable to make the break from her husband; on the other hand the real-life husband reinforcing his patriarchal role by creating a character based on his wife, thereby immortalising his own view of the relationship. Because Strauss is also creating a monument to his own artistry in the form of complex symphonic interludes – another subject explored by the production.

Intermezzo by Strauss, From (2024/2024), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Donald Runnicles, Dominic Limburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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