Organization

Singer

Bass-baritone

Georg Festl

Saint Francis

Soprano

Katharina Persicke

Angel

Tenor

Mickael Spadaccini

Le Lépreux

Jean-Noël Briend

Julian Orlishausen

Brother Leone

David Lee

Brother Masseo

Michael Pegher

Brother Elia

Baritone

Johannes Seokhoon Moon

Brother Bernardo

Werner Volker Meyer

Frère Sylvestre

Tom Schmidt

Frère Rufin

David Pichlmaier

Thomas Mehnert

Conductor

Johannes Harneit

Stage director

Karsten Wiegand

Set designer

Bärbl Hohmann

Costume designer

Andrea Fisser

Video designer

Roman Kuskowski

Chorus master

Alessandro Zuppardo

Sören Eckhoff

Johannes Köhler

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Saint François d'Assise -  (Saint Francis of Assisi)

Darmstadt

Germany

Staatstheater

Großes Haus

Saint Francis of Assisi

Approved

Saint François d'Assise Messiaen

"A man's life is like grass; like a flower in the field that blooms; when the wind blows over it, it is never there, and its place knows no more." Psalm 103

What is humility? It is not the reverence for God, but the encounter with a leper, his pain, his fear and his decay, which leads Francis to the realization that humility also has a lot to do with love - and with overcoming one's own self.

Saint François d'Assise is the only opera ever written by composer Olivier Messiaen, a late work that has no equal. Just as the characters in the piece learn to trust in God, so here the conductor must trust in his musicians - the famous Birds' Concert alone consists of so many melodies that he cannot help but simply let the orchestra play.

" Saint François d'Assise " is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.

English

Saint Francis of Assisi by Messiaen, From (2018/2019), Directed by Karsten Wiegand,, Conductor Johannes Harneit, Staatstheater, Darmstadt, Germany

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