Organization

Stage director

Peter Lund

Costume designer

Daria Kornysheva

Set designer

Sam Madwar

Video designer

Andreas Ivancsics

Choreographer

Andrea Heil

Singer

Contralto

Bettina Mönch

Gloria Mills

Tenor

Andreas Bieber

Axel Swift

Soprano

Juliette Khalil

Jessie Leyland

Bass

Kurt Schreibmayer

Cecil McScott

Peter Lesiak

Theodor Herlinger

Maximilian Klakow

Tonmeister

Jakob Semotan

Ausstattungschef

Oliver Liebl

Komponist

Rechtsanwalt Bob Peppermint

Polizeiaufseher Tommy Rogers

Jeffrey Treganza

Clark

Stefan Bischoff

1. Herr

2. Herr

3. Herr

4. Herr

5. Herr

Prinz Tino Taciano

Conductor

Lorenz C Aichner

Volksoper Wien

German

Axel an der Himmelstür

Vienna

Austria

Volksoper

Axel an der Himmelstür Benatzky

Public

English

Approved

Ralph Benatzky's operetta, which premiered in 1936 at the Theater an der Wien (his seventy-seventh!), had made the young Zarah Leander a star overnight. Peter Lund's production at the Volksoper made Benatzky's musical comedy a star itself. Desperate reporter Axel Swift hopes to earn money and fame from a story about film diva Gloria Mills and breaks into her mansion. But he's not the only one showing up at the diva's abode that night...

"An artistic coup from a single source!", BR-Klassik praised the Volksoper for "Axel at the Heavenly Door" in September 2016 and awarded the Operetta Frog award. Benatzky's work is told "dusted and contemporary", "brave, different, new", "the old material can be recognized and experienced, but at the same time it can be understood from today's distance." Unanimous applause from the audience and critics and a TV broadcast of this Production sealed the success.

Axel an der Himmelstür by Benatzky, From (2021/2021), Directed by Peter Lund,, Conductor Lorenz C Aichner, Volksoper, Vienna, Austria

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