Organization

Festtage Berlin

LINDEN 21

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Kissjudit

Frau Hinrichs

Helga

Set designer

Leonie Wolf

Marcin Lakomicki

Ema Nikolovska

Fatima Mansur

Soprano

Liubov Medvedeva

Franziska Dehke

Tenor

Carles Pachon

Hans Lomeier

Spencer Britten

Kalil

Clara Nadeshdin

Katja Hartinger

Narbenfrau

Magnus Dietrich

Peter Karpati

Stage director

Conductor

Philipp Armbruster

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Benjamin Wäntig

Lighting designer

Simone Oestreicher

Marie Sofie Jacob

Laura Albert

Marion Richter

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Mitglieder der Staatskapelle Berlin

Mitglieder Des Internationalen Opernstudios Und Gäste

German

Die arabische Nacht

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Die arabische Nacht Jost

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Private

Approved

The water isn’t running although there are rushing sounds everywhere. And the lift is stuck, yet again. Seemingly ordinary problems in a tower block; fixing them is the responsibility of Lomeier, the building’s caretaker. But tonight, everything is different: in the sticky summer heat, the residents of the house descend into a world between dreams and reality in which their everyday secrets, hidden passions and longings are exposed.

An exceptional night that brings together people who are essentially strangers despite living in the same building. For various reasons, all of them are drawn into the apartment of the ever-sleeping Franziska Dehke and her resolute flatmate Fatima Mansur, which soon becomes a venue of erotic adventures, jealousy and vengefulness. In overlapping monologues, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play is a theatrical fantasy of escaping the anonymous urban jungle, which speaks to the parallelism of encounters and dreams that send the building’s residents into the kingdom of the Arabian Nights. Christian Jost underscores this loosely woven, somnambulant narrative structure with a shimmering, levitating, iridescent soundscape in his chamber opera, which had its world premiere in 2008 in Essen. This genuine ensemble piece is played by the members of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. With »Arabian Night«, the LINDEN21 series is also conquering a brand new space, the Staatsoper’s Rehearsal Stage 1.

English

Die arabische Nacht by Jost, From (2022/2022), Directed by Marcin Lakomicki,, Conductor Philipp Armbruster, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

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