Name: Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
Start: 2003-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2003-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Docklands

Organization

Singer

Georg Nigl

No role specified

Conductor

Franck Ollu

Stage director

Heiner Goebbels

Set designer

Klaus Grünberg

Costume designer

Florence von Gerkan

Lighting designer

Holland Festival

Ensemble Modern

Orchestra

Deutscher Kammerchor

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Docklands

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten Goebbels

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Baritone

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Bass

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The title is reminiscent of paintings by old masters such as Nicholas Poussin which are not arranged around a central perspective and therefore allow the observer to choose his or her own viewpoint. Following this principle, Heiner Goebbels' opera does not have a linear storyline but creates constantly changing pictures with groups of people from various cultures and eras. The libretto of this opera for a baritone, an actor, 8 choristers and 18 instrumentalists comprises texts, stories, treatises and poems by Leonardo da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, Francois Fénelon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Michaux, T.S. Eliot and Michael Foucault, to name but a few. The musicians of the Ensemble Modern come up out of the orchestra pit to join the singers as part of the constantly changing cast of this vivid opera.
›Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten‹ (Landscape with distant relatives) is, to quote the composer, a musical and literary tour of a museum in which disturbing, moving pictures keep coming to life: Baroque societies, dancing dervishes, burning cities and down-at-the-heel cowboys.

First performed in 2002, the work has undergone constant extension during its many performances, which led to the stages of a radio play and a concert version entitled ›Picture Descriptions for a CD Version‹, released by ECM in Munich in 2007. The Ensemble Modern has continued this process together with Heiner Goebbels, leading to a new ›Frankfurt version‹ in 2010, which integrates the instrumentalists even further into the stage action. It retains the scenography by Klaus Grünberg and the costumes by Florence von Gerkan, but has a more intimate format without eliminating any of the scenes’ focus on detail. The Frankfurt Version was first performed in 2013 at the Bockenheimer Depot.

English

Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten by Goebbels, Fri 13 Jun 2003, From (2003/2003), Directed by Heiner Goebbels,, Conductor Franck Ollu, Docklands, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

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Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

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