Name: Anne Frank & Eva Braun
Uploaded: 2023-05-12T09:12:07.000Z
Description: ”Eva Braunin esittämätön nauha” on Pasi Lyytikäisen säveltämä kantaesitys Maritza Núñezin librettoon. Monologiooppera on surrealistinen ja absurdi kuvaus sii...

Festival

Singer

Soprano

Anni Niemelä

Anne Frank

James Kahane

Conductor

Stage director

Ville Saukkonen

Set designer

Reeta Tuoresmäki

Lighting designer

Pietu Pietiäinen

Video designer

Helsinki

Finland

Aleksanterin Teatteri

Main stage

Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival

German

Anne Frank & Eva Braun

Reetta Ristimäki

Character/Vocal

Public

Opera

The Diary of Anne Frank

English

Finnish

Approved

”Eva Braunin esittämätön nauha” on Pasi Lyytikäisen säveltämä kantaesitys Maritza Núñezin librettoon. Monologiooppera on surrealistinen ja absurdi kuvaus sii...

To what extent can a person influence their destiny or is life ultimately just a sum of coincidences?
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Greta Production's deeply touching but also brave and funny joint night of two monologue operas juxtaposes Anne Frank and Eva Braun, who lived in the foothills of the war during a fateful period. Their feelings and thoughts presented from opposite perspectives are equally human. The pair of works will have their long-awaited re-premier at the Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival, where they were performed for the first time on September 2, 202

Anne Frank is a monologue opera composed by Grigori Fridi in 1968, for which the composer himself wrote the original libretto based on Anne Frank's diary and letters. The work poignantly presents the world of thought of a teenage girl on the threshold of adulthood, her dreams, and hopes for the future. At the same time, the terrifying thought creeps into consciousness that life might be over before it even begins. The work, which impressively deals with the entire range of feelings of a young girl and the moods of the era, is interpreted by the luminous soprano Anni Niemelä.

Eva Braun's unperformed tape is a monologue opera composed by Pasi Lyytikäinen in 2021 to a libretto by Maritza Núñez. The work is surreal, even grotesque, but also a touching description of the aging Eva Braun going through her own life, choices and emotions. What made young Eva Braun fall in love with Adolf Hitler? Does Eva Braun regret the choices she made during her life and her forgotten dreams? The work is performed by soprano Reetta Ristimäki, known as an expressive actress and singer.
 

Soloists: Anni Niemelä (Anne Frank) & Reetta Ristimäki (Eva Braun)

Actor: Tero Jartti (husband)

A nine-member orchestra


Composition: Grigori Frid (Anne Frank) & Pasi Lyytikäinen (Eva Braun)
Libretto: Grigori Frid (Anne Frank) & Maritza Núñez (Eva Braun)

Conductor: James Kahane

Directed by: Ville Saukkonen

Stage and costume design: Reeta Tuoresmäki
Light and video design: Pietu Pietiäinen

Production: Greta Production

Anne Frank & Eva Braun by Grigory Samuilovich Frid, From null (2023/2023), Directed by Ville Saukkonen,, Conductor James Kahane

Credits (Cast & Crew)

James Kahane

Ville Saukkonen

Cast

Anni Niemelä

Reetta Ristimäki

Crew

Reeta Tuoresmäki

Pietu Pietiäinen

Pietu Pietiäinen

Co-Producer

Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival

Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival

Helsinki Contemporary Opera Festival

Program, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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