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The Soldiers at Komische Oper Berlin

Dates: (6/15/2014 - 7/9/2014 )

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Komische Oper Berlin


Behrenstraße 55-57
Berlin,Berlin 10117

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Tickets: €12.00 - €85.00

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The only opera written by the visionary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann is an icon of contemporary musical theatre which appears to go well beyond all the borders of the genre. For many years The Soldiers was considered unplayable due to the technical demands it makes. Now Zimmermann's pacifist appeal can also be experienced in Berlin – in a new version by the Spanish director Calixto Bieito.

Located in the timeless setting "yesterday, today and tomorrow", the story Zimmermann tells is that of Marie, a young woman from a simple background who becomes a plaything of her chauvinist environment. Marie is engaged to a young draper, Stolzius, but when the wealthy French army officer Baron Desportes shows an interest in her, she returns his affection in the hope of social advancement. In the end, however, Desportes abandons her, leaving her to a terrible fate: now labelled a whore, she is raped by the soldiers and ends up in the gutter, a broken woman.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz’s "comedy" becomes an apocalyptic tragedy in Zimmermann's hands. In his opera he depicts a world where the military spirit penetrates the personal sphere, brutalising relationships and rendering them inhuman. A moving testimony to the post-war years which has lost none of its urgency.

Cast and Creative team for The Soldiers at Komische Oper Berlin

Crew
Conductor
Gabriel Feltz
Staging
Calixto Bieito
Stage design
Rebecca Ringst
Costumes
Ingo Krügler
Dramaturgy
Pavel B. Jiracek
Light design
Franck Evin
Cast
Wesener, ein Galanteriehändler in Lille
Jens Larsen
Marie, seine Tochter
Susanne Elmark
Charlotte, seine Tochter
Karolina Gumos
Weseners alte Mutter
Xenia Vyaznikova
Stolzius, Tuchhändler in Armentières
Tom Erik Lie
Stolzius’ Mutter
Christiane Oertel
Obrist, Graf von Spannheim
Hans-Peter Scheidegger
Desportes, ein Edelmann
Martin Koch
Pirzel, ein Hauptmann
Eisenhardt, ein Feldprediger
Joachim Goltz
Haudy
Tomohiro Takada
Mary
Günter Papendell
1. junger Offizier
Edwin Vega
2. junger Offizier
Alexander Kravets
3. junger Offizier
Máté Gál
Die Gräfin de la Roche
Noëmi Nadelmann
Der junge Graf, ihr Sohn
Adrian Strooper
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