DIE TOTE STADT

Opera in three acts

Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Libretto by Paul Schott (Julius Leopold Korngold) frei after Georges Rodenbachs Roman „Bruges-la-morte“.
In German with German and English Surtitels. New Production.

Premiere at 18. November 2019

Tuesday, 26. November 2019, 07:00 pm o'clock – 10:15 pm o'clock, Nationaltheater.

Duration est. 3 hours 15 minutes

Einführung: 18:00 o'clock

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Conductor	Kirill Petrenko
Production	Simon Stone
Assistant Director	Maria-Magdalena Kwaschik
Set Design	Ralph Myers
Costume Design	Mel Page
Lighting	Roland Edrich
Choruses	Stellario Fagone
Dramaturgy	Lukas Leipfinger

Paul	Jonas Kaufmann
Marietta/Die Erscheinung Mariens	Marlis Petersen
Frank/Fritz	Andrzej Filonczyk
Brigitta	Jennifer Johnston
Juliette	Mirjam Mesak
Lucienne	Corinna Scheurle
Gaston/Victorin	Manuel Günther
Graf Albert	Dean Power
Children‘s Chorus	Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

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Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

The boundary between dream and reality increasingly dissolves as Paul, mourning his dead wife Marie, meets the dancer Marietta. With her looks so similar to Marie’s, Marietta becomes the object of the projection of Paul’s erotic desires. His grief has the traits of a ritual: The carefully composed strands of his dead wife’s hair are guarded like a relic. Following a nerve-racking “vision” with cathartic effect, Paul is finally reeled back to reality. He can leave the Belgian city of Bruges as the place of his death cult. The original title of the piece, “Triumph des Lebens” (Triumph of Life), is symbolic of the main character’s personal development.
Just a few weeks before the immensely successful world premiere of Die tote Stadt, none other than Giacomo Puccini himself described Erich Wolfgang Korngold, only 23 at the time, as the “greatest hope of new German music”. Because of their melodic urgency, arias such as “Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Lute Song)” and “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (Pierrot's Song)” have found a home among the concert repertoires of numerous opera singers and radiate far beyond the fame of Die tote Stadt.

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