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Philippe Boesmans: Round dance

05.12.2018
Opera production
Oper Reigen | © Judith Buss
© Judith Buss
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Born in Tongeren (Belgium) in 1936, Philippe Boesmans, compositeur en résidance at La Monnaie under Gérard Mortier and Bernard Focroulle, was introduced to "Reigen" as operatic material by Luc Bondy - the librettist and director of the 1993 premiere in Brussels: "I wanted to write something light, something close to, for example, 'Cosi fan tutte'."
Musical direction
gernot Sahler Scenic direction
alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes
eric Droin & Yea Eun Hong Dramaturgy
malte Krasting Music
oenm . austrian ensemble for new music

About production

Boesman's "Reigen," whose musical language was described by the premiere conductor Sylvain Cambreling as a "mixture between Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel," developed into one of the most frequently performed new operas of our time. "A little Decameron of our days. The transience, even of subterranean life, rings through the whole." This is how Alfred Kerr describes Arthur Schnitzler's scandal-ridden "Reigen," written in the winter of 1896/97. "Scenes; always between a woman and a man. Each time in the middle of it a line of dashes - in a horizontal position. Schnitzler, who quietly wielded the psychic magic of love in other works, here smilingly gives the comedy of the lower zones." Arthur Schnitzler was already skeptical about a staged realization of "Ten Dialogues" when it was written - "there has never been anything more unperformable" - and imposed a performance ban after both the book publication and attempts to perform the "offensive" work were torpedoed by hostility and lawsuits. It was not until 1982 that the polarizing work found its way back onto the stage.

Dates & Cast

5. December 2018, 19.00
7. December 2018, 19.00
9. December 2018, 17.00
10. December 2018, 7.00 p.m
max Schlereth Hall
 
DIRECTOR: Ornella de Luca, Chelsea Kolic SOLDIER: Gabriel Arce STUB GIRL: Ekaterina Bocharova, Ines Constantino, Neelam Brader (study assignment) YOUNG LORD: Johannes Hubmer YOUNG WOMAN: Anne Reich, Sejin Park GATTE: Audrius Martisius, Konstantin Riedl CUTE GIRL: Vera Maria Bitter, Bethany Yeaman GUARD: Nuttaporn Thammathi SINGER: Himani Grundström, Ayse Senogul COUNT: Jinseok Kim, Daniel Weiler

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