Organization

Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+2)

Toni Burkhardt

Décors

Décors (+2)

Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning

Costumes

Livret (+3)

Adriana Mortelliti

Direction de choeur

Direction de choeur (+1)

Mario Orlando El Fakih Hernández

Soprano (+2)

Victoria Kunze

Bess McNeill

Baryton (+2)

Marcin Hutek

Jan Nyman

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Boshana Milkov

Dodo McNeill

Basse (+5)

Ulrich Burdack

Terry

Ténor (+2)

Andrew Irwin

Dr Richardson

Soprano (+1)

Signe Heiberg

Bess's Mother

Baryton (+4)

James Bobby

Councilman

Baryton (+3)

Patrick Ruyters

The Sadistic Sailor

Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Direction d'orchestre

Marc Niemann

Dramaturge

Markus Tatzig

Assistant mise en scène

Annika Ellen Osenberg

Ténor (+3)

MacKenzie Gallinger

Man at the bus stop/bar

Orchestra

Bremerhaven Philharmonic Orchestra

Extras

Statisterie des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven

Chorus

Herrenchor des Opernchors des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven

Ténor

Anton Kononchenko

Young Sailor

Direction d'orchestre (+3)

Davide Perniceni

Bess McNeill is a deeply religious young woman who genuinely loves her husband Jan, a worker on an oil rig. When Bess becomes paralyzed in an accident, Bess' marriage vows are put to the test. Because Jan encourages his wife to sleep with other men. And he wants Bess to tell him about it in detail afterwards. That keeps him alive. Out of love, the traumatized Bess complies with the enormous demand. For a high price.

Film director Lars von Trier caused a stir in 1996 with his film of the same name. 20 years later, the opera version of the story was successfully premiered at the Philadelphia Opera, composed by Missy Mazzoli, a Grammy nominee and recently named "Composer of the Year" by Musical America. Her highly emotional sound portrait, which also repeatedly poses the perpetrator/victim question musically, gives the composer the opportunity to "create a new kind of heroine and a new kind of opera that presents complex characters in a complicated and unshakable light."

Breaking the Waves will have its German premiere at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven.

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