Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Toni Burkhardt

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning

Costume designer

Librettist (+3)

Adriana Mortelliti

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Mario Orlando El Fakih Hernández

Soprano (+2)

Victoria Kunze

Bess McNeill

Baritone (+2)

Marcin Hutek

Jan Nyman

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Boshana Milkov

Dodo McNeill

Bass (+5)

Ulrich Burdack

Terry

Tenor (+2)

Andrew Irwin

Dr Richardson

Soprano (+1)

Signe Heiberg

Bess's Mother

Baritone (+4)

James Bobby

Councilman

Baritone (+3)

Patrick Ruyters

The Sadistic Sailor

Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Conductor

Marc Niemann

Dramaturge

Markus Tatzig

Assistant Stage Director

Annika Ellen Osenberg

Tenor (+3)

MacKenzie Gallinger

Man at the bus stop/bar

Orchestra

Bremerhaven Philharmonic Orchestra

Extras

Extras of the Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Chorus

Members of the Stadttheaters Bremerhaven

Tenor

Anton Kononchenko

Young Sailor

Conductor (+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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