Organization

Conductor

Petr Popelka

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Video designer

Jonas Dahl

Manuel Braun

Leitung

Erwin Ortner

Singer

Soprano

Vera-Lotte Boecker

Dorotka

Tenor

Pavol Breslik

Babinský

Mezzo-soprano

Ester Pavlů

Královna

Baritone

Andrè Schuen

Švanda

Bass

Sorin Coliban

Černokněžník

Krešimir Stražanac

Čert

Iurie Ciobanu

Čertův famulus

MusikTheater an der Wien

Miloš Bulajić

Sudí

Pekelný hejtman

Landsknechte 1

Henry Neill

Landsknecht 2

Magier

Chorus master

Others

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

Orchestra

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

German

Svanda Dudák -  (Svanda the Bagpiper)

Vienna

Austria

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier

Svanda Dudák Weinberger

Public

Svanda the Bagpiper

English

Approved

SCHWANDA, DER DUDELSACKPFEIFER
Jaromír Weinberger

OPERA IN TWO ACTS (FIVE SCENES)
Libretto by Miloš Kareš
German by Max Brod

Suitable for ages 16 and over

 Oh, the joys of married life! But the conjugal relations between the bagpiper Švanda and his wife Dorotka are something else – all the more so once the robber chief Babinský appears on the scene, leading the husband to all kinds of adventures and the wife to infidelity. An encounter with a lovestruck Ice Queen, an execution stopped at the last moment and even a descent into Hell promise entertainment with an underlying message. Jaromír Weinberger’s opera Švanda dudák received its premiere in Prague in 1927 and became known in the German-speaking world in a translation by Max Brod. However, the National Socialists put an abrupt end not only to the run of success the work was enjoying, but to Weinberger’s entire career as well. In recent years, at least his popular opera Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer, with its mixture of Bohemian folk music and late Romanticism, has made a successful comeback on the stage. With this work, Tobias Kratzer returns to Vienna and explores not just the colourful surface, but more particularly the dark secrets found by depth psychology in this fairy-tale world for adults.

 In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

 
Cast
Conductor: Petr Popelka
Director: Tobias Kratzer
Stage and Costume: Rainer Sellmaier
Light: Michael Bauer
Video: Jonas Dahl, Manuel Braun

Schwanda: Andrè Schuen
Dorota: Vera-Lotte Boecker
Babinsky: Pavol Breslik
Königin: Ester Pavlu
Teufel: Krešimir Stražanac
Magier: Sorin Coliban
Richter / Der Höllenhauptmann / 1. Landsknecht: Miloš Bulajić
2. Landsknecht: Henry Neill
Scharfrichter / Des Teufels Famulus: Iurie Ciobanu

Wiener Symphoniker

Arnold Schoenberg Chor
 (Leitung: Erwin Ortner)

Svanda the Bagpiper by Weinberger, From (2023/2023), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Petr Popelka, Halle E im MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

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