Name: Jakob Lenz
Start: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Organization

Singer

Bass

Steven Scheschareg

Oberlin

Stage director

Sophie Springer

Conductor

Mitsugu Hoshino

Costume designer

Bettina Breitenecker

Set designer

Thomas Stingl

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Baritone

Ivan Ludlow

Lenz

Soprano

Sarah Gilford

Sopran 1

Tenor

Robert Künzli

Kaufmann

Veronika Schäfer

Sopran 2

Contralto

Sofia Pavone

Alt 1

Feride Büyükdenktas

Alt 2

Marian Pop

bass 1

Marcel Brunner

bass 2

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Orchestra

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester

German

Jakob Lenz

Klagenfurt

Austria

Jakob Lenz Rihm

Public

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

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Pianist

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Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

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Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Chefdirigent Musiktheater

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Illustrator

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Poet

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Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

What holds and sustains a person when his spirit escapes? When the yawning abyss of existence opens in the aimless drive of the life force? Is art a cure for psychological breakdown - or rather its catalyst?

Jakob Michael Lenz, who at a young age had shaped the style of the epoch of Sturm und Drang, developed schizophrenia himself at the age of 27. In 1778 the socially committed pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin took the poet into his home and hoped, together with the philosopher Christoph Kaufmann, to be able to counter the attacks of Lenz's mental illness.

Oberlin described the increasing intellectual decline of the poet in his notes, which in 1835 sent the 22-year-old Georg Büchner to his novella Lenzwhich, almost 150 years later, inspired the composer Wolfgang Rihm, who was only 25 years old, to perform a chamber opera. The unstoppable pull of the emotional and spiritual disturbance and the musical power of expression pulls the listener straight into the poet's shattered psyche. The historically real figures Lenz, Oberlin and Kaufmann are joined by six voices - projections of the inner state of Lenz, his fears and dreams, but also voices from the environment. Reality and hallucination overlap indistinguishably; Lenz's psychological experience merges with the sound that surrounds him. For Lenz there is no way out of his disturbing stream of perception, all that remains for him is the straitjacket.

English

Jakob Lenz by Rihm, Fri 25 Feb 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Sophie Springer,, Conductor Mitsugu Hoshino, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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