Name: Die Gespenstersonate
Start: 1985-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1985-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Dirigat

Friedemann Layer

Regie

Heinz Lukas-Kindermann

Bühnenbild

Dietrich Schoras

Kostümbild

Sänger

Hans Günter Nöcker

Der Alte

Sopran

Martha Mödl

Mumien

Tenor

Horst Hiestermann

Der Oberst

David Knutson

Arkenholz

Gudrun Sieber

Fräulein Adele

Donald Groves

Johannsson

Mezzosopran

Barbara Scherler

Dunkle Dame

Kaja Borris

Köchin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Ensemble Modern

Others

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Die Gespenstersonate

Berlin

Deutschland

In September 1984, as part of the Berlin Festival Week, the Deutsche Oper Berlin staged the world premiere of German composer Aribert Reimann’s opera “Die Gespenstersonate”. Based on the drama by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, the chamber opera tells the story of a student, who muses about the inhabitants of a fancy-looking house. His crucial meeting with the Old Man pulls him into a world of intrigues, sickness, depression and murder. It plays in and around the presumably haunted house, which seems to drown its inhabitants in its sinister atmosphere. Better known for his operas “Lear” or “Medea”, Reimann established himself firmly as a stage composer from 1965 onwards. “Die Gespenstersonate”, being a modern chamber opera, was performed not on the great stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, but at the smaller Hebbel-Theater. Heinz Lukas-Kindermann’s stage direction sets the spectator under its gloomy spell, the exquisite cast performing the demanding score stars Hans Günter Nöcker as the “Old Man” and David Knutson as the Student, as well as well-loved Martha Mödl as the “Mummy”.

Die Gespenstersonate Reimann

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