Organization

Regisseur

Regisseur (+2)

Toni Burkhardt

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning

Kostuum ontwerper

Librettist (+3)

Adriana Mortelliti

Koor meester

Koor meester (+1)

Mario Orlando El Fakih Hernández

Sopraan (+2)

Victoria Kunze

Bess McNeill

Bariton (+2)

Marcin Hutek

Jan Nyman

Mezzosopraan (+4)

Boshana Milkov

Dodo McNeill

Bas (+5)

Ulrich Burdack

Terry

Tenor (+2)

Andrew Irwin

Dr Richardson

Sopraan (+1)

Signe Heiberg

Bess's Mother

Bariton (+4)

James Bobby

Councilman

Bariton (+3)

Patrick Ruyters

The Sadistic Sailor

Stadttheater Bremerhaven

Dirigent

Marc Niemann

Dramaturg

Markus Tatzig

Assistent Toneelregisseur

Annika Ellen Osenberg

Tenor (+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

Tenor

Anton Kononchenko

Young Sailor

Dirigent (+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.

Breaking the Waves, Mazzoli

Cast

Bess McNeill

Jan Nyman

Dodo McNeill

Terry

Dr Richardson

Bess's Mother

Councilman

The Sadistic Sailor

Man at the bus stop/bar

Young Sailor

Productieteam

Regisseur

Assistent Toneelregisseur

Dirigent

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Koor meester

Dramaturg

Instrumentatie

Producent

Producent

Ensemble

Orkest

Koor

Co-producent

Foto's

Ontdek

Componist

Beschrijving

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