Organization

Regia

Regia (+2)

Toni Burkhardt

Scenografia

Scenografia (+2)

Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning

Costumi

Libretto (+3)

Adriana Mortelliti

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+1)

Mario Orlando El Fakih Hernández

Soprano (+2)

Victoria Kunze

Bess McNeill

Baritono (+2)

Marcin Hutek

Jan Nyman

Mezzosoprano (+4)

Boshana Milkov

Dodo McNeill

Basso (+5)

Ulrich Burdack

Terry

Tenore (+2)

Andrew Irwin

Dr Richardson

Soprano (+1)

Signe Heiberg

Bess's Mother

Baritono (+4)

James Bobby

Councilman

Baritono (+3)

Patrick Ruyters

The Sadistic Sailor

Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Direttore d'orchestra

Marc Niemann

Drammaturgo

Markus Tatzig

Assistente alla regia

Annika Ellen Osenberg

Tenore (+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

Tenore

Anton Kononchenko

Young Sailor

Direttore d'orchestra (+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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