The dwarf - Schedule, Program & Tickets
The dwarf
Opera in one act
Libretto by Georg C. Klaren based on the fairy tale
"The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde
First performance on May 28, 1922 in Cologne
Premiere on March 24, 2019 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
As a prologue
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Music to accompany a movie scene for orchestra op.34 (1930)
In German with German and English surtitles
approx. 1 hour 30 minutes / no break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Princess Donna Clara turns 18 and the whole world is showering her with gifts. However, the Turkish sultan sent her a very special gift: It is a living dwarf! This misshapen man deserves her special attention among all the splendor and beauty. He enchants her with his singing and is all the more fascinating because he doesn't know what he's looking like. The dwarf falls madly in love with the princess and doesn't see through the flirtatious game she's playing with him. But then, for the first time in his life, he is confronted with his reflection. He realizes reality and collapses dead. Alexander Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG is based on Oscar Wilde's fairy tale "The Birthday of the Infanta" and was premiered in 1922. After Zemlinsky's death in exile in America in 1942, the work was quickly forgotten. It was only rediscovered at the end of the 1970s and has been inspiring since then as a subtle, sensory-shimmering seismogram of a highly complex psychological constellation.
It is staged by Tobias Kratzer, who is considered one of the most interesting young German opera directors, who most recently worked at theaters such as the Bremen Theater, the State Theaters in Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, the Basel Theater, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels and the Frankfurt Opera. LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN will be staged for the Holland Festival in summer 2018, and TANNHÄUSER will be released in Bayreuth in 2019. In 2017 his version of Rameau's ZOROASTRE was performed at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin. Tobias Kratzer is making his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with DER ZWERG.
Musical direction Sir Donald Runnicles
Production by Tobias Kratzer
Stage, costumes Rainer Sellmaier
Light Stefan Woinke
Jeremy Bines choirs
Donna Clara Heidi Stober
Ghita Emily Magee
The dwarf David Butt Philip
The dwarf (actor) Mick Morris Mehnert
Don Estoban Philipp Jekal
The first maid Flurina Stucki
The second maid, Arianna Manganello
The third maid, Karis Tucker
The first girl in So Young Park
The second girl Kristina Häger
Alma Schindler (pianist) Adelle Eslinger-Runnicles
Alexander von Zemlinsky (pianist) Evgeny Nikiforov
Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Subject to changes.
Libretto by Georg C. Klaren based on the fairy tale
"The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde
First performance on May 28, 1922 in Cologne
Premiere on March 24, 2019 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
As a prologue
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Music to accompany a movie scene for orchestra op.34 (1930)
In German with German and English surtitles
approx. 1 hour 30 minutes / no break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Princess Donna Clara turns 18 and the whole world is showering her with gifts. However, the Turkish sultan sent her a very special gift: It is a living dwarf! This misshapen man deserves her special attention among all the splendor and beauty. He enchants her with his singing and is all the more fascinating because he doesn't know what he's looking like. The dwarf falls madly in love with the princess and doesn't see through the flirtatious game she's playing with him. But then, for the first time in his life, he is confronted with his reflection. He realizes reality and collapses dead. Alexander Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG is based on Oscar Wilde's fairy tale "The Birthday of the Infanta" and was premiered in 1922. After Zemlinsky's death in exile in America in 1942, the work was quickly forgotten. It was only rediscovered at the end of the 1970s and has been inspiring since then as a subtle, sensory-shimmering seismogram of a highly complex psychological constellation.
It is staged by Tobias Kratzer, who is considered one of the most interesting young German opera directors, who most recently worked at theaters such as the Bremen Theater, the State Theaters in Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, the Basel Theater, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels and the Frankfurt Opera. LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN will be staged for the Holland Festival in summer 2018, and TANNHÄUSER will be released in Bayreuth in 2019. In 2017 his version of Rameau's ZOROASTRE was performed at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin. Tobias Kratzer is making his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with DER ZWERG.
Musical direction Sir Donald Runnicles
Production by Tobias Kratzer
Stage, costumes Rainer Sellmaier
Light Stefan Woinke
Jeremy Bines choirs
Donna Clara Heidi Stober
Ghita Emily Magee
The dwarf David Butt Philip
The dwarf (actor) Mick Morris Mehnert
Don Estoban Philipp Jekal
The first maid Flurina Stucki
The second maid, Arianna Manganello
The third maid, Karis Tucker
The first girl in So Young Park
The second girl Kristina Häger
Alma Schindler (pianist) Adelle Eslinger-Runnicles
Alexander von Zemlinsky (pianist) Evgeny Nikiforov
Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Subject to changes.
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