Organization

Singer

Tenor

Klaus Florian Vogt

Paul

Stage director

Karoline Gruber

Set designer

Roy Spahn

Costume designer

Mechthild Seipel

Lighting designer

Hans Toelstede

Chorus master

Eberhard Friedrich

Dramaturge

Kerstin Schüssler-Bach

Conductor

Yoel Gamzou

Choreographer

Stefanie Erb

Silent

Simone Schneider

Marietta

Baritone

Daniel Schmutzhard

Frank

Mezzo-soprano

Katja Pieweck

Brigitta

Soprano

Na'ama Shulman

Juliette

Florian Panzieri

Victorin

Aaron Godfrey-Mayes

Count Albert

Staatsoper Hamburg

Orchestra

Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

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Hamburg State Opera Choir

Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Luiz de Godoy

Vida Mikneviciute

Yeonjoo Katharina Jang

Lucienne

German

Die tote Stadt -  (The Dead City)

Hamburg

Germany

Staatsoper

Großes Haus

Die tote Stadt Korngold

Public

The Dead City

Approved

Opera in three scenes (1920) Text by Julius and Erich Wolfgang Korngold based on the novel »Bruges-la-Morte« by Georges Rodenbach Staging: Karoline Gruber Stage design: Roy Spahn Costumes: Mechthild Seipel Lighting: Hans Toelstede Dramaturgy: Kerstin Schüssler-Bach Premiere : 03/22/2014

Wrapped up in the past, the widower Paul refuses to live. Its inner emptiness does not allow any sensations. Only the open confrontation with his trauma brings Paul's buried longings to an outbreak. Strange events blur the contours between reality and appearance. Paul begins to love again - but who?

The music that Erich Wolfgang Korngold found for his night piece, which staggers between madness and reality, is also captivating: with a gigantic orchestral apparatus, he unleashes a veritable intoxication of sound. The exuberant wealth of melodies and the spectacular instrumentation of the score enthralled audiences at the simultaneous world premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920. "The Dead City" led the 23-year-old composer to world fame - which he was to expand as a film music composer: from 1934 Korngold was a pioneer of the still young genre in Hollywood and received two Oscars for his scores.

English

The Dead City by Korngold, From (2024/2024), Directed by Karoline Gruber,, Conductor Yoel Gamzou, Staatsoper, Hamburg, Germany

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