Tales from the Vienna Woods at Komische Oper Berlin
Dates: (5/22/2016 - 6/7/2016 )
Komische Oper Berlin |
Behrenstraße 55-57
Berlin,Berlin 10117
Phone: +49 (0)30 202 60 0
Tickets: €12.00 - €76.00
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On the banks of the »beautiful blue Danube«, the toy merchant Leopold, known as the »king of magic«, is celebrating the betrothal of his daughter Marianne to the upstanding butcher Oskar. Her encounter with the sensitive dreamer Alfred gives Marianne the courage to perform an act of self-determination: virtually overpowered by a passion she has hitherto never experienced, Marianne breaks off her engagement in order to find happiness by Alfred's side. Yet the dream of happiness is all too soon overtaken by reality: Marianne, who has been cast out by her father, and the child she has borne her lover soon become a burden to the wastrel Alfred. Marianne's social degradation brings her ever lower, until she has no other option but to ruefully return to the butcher whom she does not love – yet there is the problem of the »sinful« child she has borne Alfred.
A native of Vienna, HK Gruber is one of the major composers of our time. He is a notorious malcontent whose compositions are impossible to pigeon-hole. His works often feature a dark and at times morbid humour. In Tales from the Vienna Woods, Gruber not only finds all manner of tongue-in-cheek references – from Johann Strauss waltzes through to Puccini's La Bohème – and his oh-so-typical cheeky notes, but also returns time and again to very quiet, lyrical moments.
Cast and Creative team for Tales from the Vienna Woods at Komische Oper Berlin
Crew
Musical direction
Hendrik Vestmann
Staging
Micha? Zadara
Stage design
Robert Rumas
Costumes
Julia Kornacka
Video
Barbara Wysocka, Artur Sienicki
Dramaturgy
Johanna Wall
Lighting
Diego Leetz
Cast
Marianne
Claudia Boyle
Alfred
Tom Erik Lie
Oskar
Adrian Strooper
Valerie
Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
King of Magic
Jens Larsen
The Mother
Christiane Oertel
The Grandmother
Anja Silja
Erich
Ivan Turši?
Riding instructor/Confessor
Hans Gröning
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