Organization

Singer

Baritone

Joachim Goltz

Lenz

Bass

Patrick Zielke

Oberlin

Tenor

Raphael Wittmer

Kaufmann

Stage director

Calixto Bieito

Conductor

Franck Ollu

Set designer

Anna-Sofia Kirsch

Dramaturge

Cordula Demattio

Chorus master

Dani Juris

Anke-Christine Kober

Lighting designer

Nicole Berry

Costume designer

Paula Klein

Contralto

Maria Polanska

Alt 1

Marie-Belle Sandis

Alt 2

Serhii Moskalchuk

bass 1

Marcel Brunner

bass 2

Nationaltheater Mannheim

Others

members of the children's choir

Orchestra

Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim

Soprano

Rebecca Blanz

Sopran 2

Josefin Feiler

Sopran 1

German

Jakob Lenz

Mannheim

Germany

Opernhaus

Jakob Lenz Rihm

Public

Approved

Jakob Lenz hears voices. They drive him out into the forest, they torment him with images from the past that cast their shadows over the present. Lenz finds peace in the house of Pastor Oberlin, but it too is short-lived. In the 1830s, Georg Büchner came across the story of the poet Lenz, who was first highly valued by Goethe, then rejected, and gradually went mad. Wolfgang Rihm finally turns Büchner's »Lenz« novella into an opera that tells of the fate of the young poet with disturbing force. A struggle between madness and control, captured in gripping images by Calixto Bieito.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble