Marnie by Muhly, Nuo (2023/2023), Režisierius Peter Carp,, Dirigentas André de Ridder, Hiroki Ojika, Theater Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thrillers in opera are a rather rare genre. But this is one: gripping, dazzling and mysterious to the end - made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film adaptation from 1964. The attractive Marnie Elmer has imagination and manipulative skills when it comes to starting a new job under a false name and stealing a lot of money from her employer and then disappearing again without a trace. One of her rich victims falls in love with her and tries to bind the always fleeing to himself. It becomes clear: the beautiful kleptomaniac carries a dark secret with her, which initially causes her to stumble and finally to fall. Marnie has already played her way through a number of genres: first in the novel by Winston Graham, then in a legendary Hitchcock film adaptation in 1964 and finally in the opera by American composer Nico Muhly in 2017, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera New York. Artistic Director Peter Carp and Freiburg's new General Music Director André de Ridder are bringing this opera thriller to Germany in Nico Muhly's suggestively gripping music drama in their first collaboration.