Name: Das Wunder der Heliane
Start: 2018-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Soprano

Sara Jakubiak

Heliane

Baritone

Josef Wagner

Der Herrscher

Tenor

Brian Jagde

Der Fremde

contralto

Okka von der Damerau

Die Botin

Bass

Derek Welton

Der Pförtner

Burkhard Ulrich

Der blinde Schwertrichter

Gideon Poppe

Der junge Mensch

Andrew Dickinson

Erster Richter

Dean Murphy

Zweiter Richter

Thomas Florio

Dritter Richter

Clemens Bieber

Vierter Richter

Philipp Jekal

Fünfter Richter

Stephen Bronk

Sechster Richter

Sandra Hamaoui

1. seraphische Stimme

Meechot Marrero

2. seraphische Stimme

Dirigent

Marc Albrecht

Regissör

Christof Loy

Scenograf

Johannes Leiacker

Kostym designer

Barbara Drosihn

Ljus designer

Olaf Winter

Körledare

Jeremy Bines

Dramaturg

Dorothea Hartmann

Thomas Jonigk

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

tyska

Das Wunder der Heliane

Berlin

Tyskland

Die Tischlerei

In his new production of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane)—voted Revival of the Year in Opernwelt—director Christof Loy sets the action in a strikingly lit wood-panelled hall early in the twentieth century. In period costumes, the stars evoke the dreamlike quality of Korngold’s music and Hans Müller-Einigen’s libretto, a delicate balance between religious and erotic undertones. The leads boast the combination of Wagnerian power and studied restraint that the music requires, with Brian Jagde’s (The Stranger) dynamism and stunning low notes a perfect complement to the vocal agility and rich timbre of Sara Jakubiak (Heliane).

With the world-class Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch conductor Mark Albrecht’s impressive interpretation of Korngold’s score brings out its Mahlerian influences—notably at the end of Act I, inspired by Des Knaben Wunderhorn. This triumphant production (the first audiovisual recording of the opera!) should reinvigorate interest in this undersung work that Korngold considered his finest, one of the final masterpieces of Viennese Romanticism.

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