Organization

Sänger

Sopran

Sara Jakubiak

Heliane

Bariton

Josef Wagner

Der Herrscher

Tenor

Brian Jagde

Der Fremde

Okka von der Damerau

Die Botin

Bass

Derek Welton

Der Pförtner

Burkhard Ulrich

Der blinde Scharfrichter

Gideon Poppe

Der junge Mann

Andrew Dickinson

1. Richter

Dean Murphy

2. Richter

Thomas Florio

3. Richter

Clemens Bieber

4. Richter

Philipp Jekal

5. Richter

Stephen Bronk

6. Richter

Sandra Hamaoui

1. seraphische Stimme

Meechot Marrero

2. seraphische Stimme

Dirigat

Marc Albrecht

Regie

Christof Loy

Bühnenbild

Johannes Leiacker

Kostümbild

Barbara Drosihn

Lichtgestaltung

Olaf Winter

Chordirektion

Jeremy Bines

Dramaturgie

Dorothea Hartmann

Thomas Jonigk

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Deutsch

Das Wunder der Heliane

Berlin

Deutschland

Die Tischlerei

In his new production of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane)—voted Revival of the Year in Opernwelt—director Christof Loy sets the action in a strikingly lit wood-panelled hall early in the twentieth century. In period costumes, the stars evoke the dreamlike quality of Korngold’s music and Hans Müller-Einigen’s libretto, a delicate balance between religious and erotic undertones. The leads boast the combination of Wagnerian power and studied restraint that the music requires, with Brian Jagde’s (The Stranger) dynamism and stunning low notes a perfect complement to the vocal agility and rich timbre of Sara Jakubiak (Heliane).

With the world-class Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch conductor Mark Albrecht’s impressive interpretation of Korngold’s score brings out its Mahlerian influences—notably at the end of Act I, inspired by Des Knaben Wunderhorn. This triumphant production (the first audiovisual recording of the opera!) should reinvigorate interest in this undersung work that Korngold considered his finest, one of the final masterpieces of Viennese Romanticism.

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