Les Huguenots at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dates: (11/13/2016 - 2/4/2017 )

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Deutsche Oper Berlin

Bismarckstr. 35
Berlin,Berlin 10627

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Tickets: €29.00 - €170.00

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In his LES HUGUENOTS [1836] Giacomo Meyerbeer transposed one of the bloodiest massacres in European history to the opera stage. The attempt by French Catholics to murder all the country’s Protestants on St Bartholomew’s Day in 1572 remains one of most ghastly examples of religious atrocities. That LES HUGUENOTS went on to become one of Meyerbeer’s most famous operas has as much to do with his relentless approach to the exposition as with the dramatic subject matter. The opera depicts the unfolding of a catastrophe, from the fragile interdenominational peace and the vain attempts at mediation to the organisation of the crime in the famous “benediction of the swords” culminating in the indiscriminate slaughter of the Huguenots.

In its linking of the fate of the two lovers Raoul and Valentine with the major historical event that was the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, LES HUGUENOTS became the archetypal work of the new grand opéra sub-genre and one of the most influential operas in history.

LES HUGUENOTS is the central work in the Deutsche Oper’s Meyerbeer cycle, which presents new theatrical productions of the key works of Berlin’s greatest ever composer. The American David Alden, who recently directed Britten’s operas PETER GRIMES and BILLY BUDD and is one of the highest-profile directors working today, was signed to stage the work.

Cast and Creative team for Les Huguenots at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor
Michele Mariotti
Stage Director
David Alden
Set Design
Giles Cadle
Costume Design
Constance Hoffman
Chorus Master
William Spaulding
Dramaturge
Jörg Königsdorf
Curt A. Roesler
Marguerite de Valois
Patrizia Ciofi
Le Comte de Saint-Bris
Derek Welton
Valentine
Olesya Golovneva
Le Comte de Nevers
Noel Bouley
Urbain
Jana Kurucová
Maid-of-Honor
Abigail Levis
Cossé
Andrew Dickinson
Tavannes / 1st. monk
Paul Kaufmann
Thoré
Dong-Hwan Lee
de Retz
Alexei Botnarciuc
Méru / 2nd. monk
Thomas Lehman
Maurevert / 3rd. monk
Stephen Bronk
Raoul de Nangis
Juan Diego Flórez
Marcel
Ante Jerkunica
Bois-Rosé
James Kryshak
Chorus
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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