Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Bettina Pierags

The Grand Duchess

Tenor

Max An

Fritz

Soprano

Bénédicte Hilbert

Wanda

Bass

Klaus-Uwe Rein

General Boum

Norbert Zilz

La baron Puck

Tobias Amadeus Schöner

Le prince Paul

Stage director

Hinrich Horstkotte

Conductor

Fabrice Parmentier

Dramaturge

Marco Misgaiski

Nordharzer Städtebundtheater Halberstadt-Quedlinburg

Others

Chor des Nordharzer Städtebundtheaters

Orchestra

Harzer Sinfoniker

Opernchor des Nordharzer Städtebundtheaters

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein -  (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein)

Quedlinburg

Germany

Großes Haus Quedlinburg

Bernburg

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater

Bad Elster

König Albert Theater

Halberstadt

Großes Haus Halberstadt

Itzehoe

Theater

Rheine

Stadthalle

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein Offenbach

Public

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein

Approved

"Life belongs to the living, and those who live must be prepared for change." These words by Johann Wolfang von Goethe could probably overwrite the last two years at many theaters. This is also the case here in the northern Harz region. Since the New Year's Eve premiere of "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" cannot take place due to corona and essential parts of the ensemble were absent due to illness in the rehearsals that had already begun, the theater management, together with director and set designer Hinrich Horstkotte, decided to postpone the production . Fortunately, at the beginning of the 2022/23 season, we had the opportunity to plan space and time and we look forward to the director, stage and costume designer Horstkotte, who is highly valued by the ensemble and the audience. Hinrich Horstkotte, who developed his version of this colourful,

The regent of the fictional small state of Gerolstein, which has no connection to the actual town in the Vulkaneifel, is young, very young. And she loves men, young men in smart uniforms. Before he knows it, the simple soldier Fritz becomes the plaything of their whims. But as quickly as his rise to the rank of general, vain resentment overtakes him. Offenbach's THE GRAND DUCHESS OF GEROLSTEIN is a capricious reckoning with small states, militarism, worn-out court clergy and the arbitrariness of the powerful against the powerless, which has lost none of its momentum and wit to this day.

English

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach, From (2021/2022), Directed by Hinrich Horstkotte,, Conductor Fabrice Parmentier, Großes Haus Halberstadt, Halberstadt, Germany

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