Organization

Singer

Soprano

Vuvu Mpofu

Bess McNeill

Kristján Jóhannsson

The Sadistic Sailor

Baritone

Robin Adams

Jan Nyman

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Panara

Dodo McNeill

Claude Eichenberger

Bess's Mother

Tenor

Christopher Sokolowski

Dr Richardson

Bass

Justin Hopkins

Terry

David Maze

Councilman

Cristian Joita

Young Sailor

Stage director

Melly Still

Conductor

Modestas Pitrenas

Lighting designer

Malcolm Rippeth

Set designer

Ana Inés Jabares-Pita

Dramaturge

Christina Schmidl

Chorus master

Michael Vogel

Franz Obermair

Theater St Gallen

English

Breaking the Waves

St. Gallen

Switzerland

UM!BAU

Breaking the Waves Mazzoli

Public

German

Approved

Oper von Missy Mazzoli und Royce Vavrekwww.theatersg.ch

Oper von Missy Mazzoli und Royce Vavrek
Ab 18. September im Theater St.Gallen

Lars von Trier caused a sensation in 1996 with his award-winning film Breaking the Waves. In it, he tells the story of a deeply religious, traumatized, young woman in an impossible situation: Out of love for her paraplegic husband Jan, Bess meets his monstrous demand and sleeps with other men – believing that she will save her husband with it. Twenty years after the film, the opera version of the material was successfully premiered in Philadelphia. With a highly emotional tonal language and sensual sounds, the American composer and Grammy winner Missy Mazzoli paints the multifaceted portrait of a naïve anti-heroine who, out of selflessness, becomes the victim of an isolated, dysfunctional society. With Breaking the Waves, British director and choreographer Melly Still, who has been nominated several times for a Tony and Olivier Award for her work, makes her debut on the European mainland. Chief conductor Modestas Pitrenas conducts the St.Gallen Symphony Orchestra in the opening production by opera director Jan Henric Bogen.

Breaking the Waves by Mazzoli, From (2021/2021), Directed by Melly Still,, Conductor Modestas Pitrenas, UM!BAU, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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