Organization

Singer

Bass

Alfred Muff

Wesener

Soprano

Laura Aikin

Marie

Mezzo-soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Charlotte

Contralto

Cornelia Kallisch

Wesener\'s Old Mother

Baritone

Tomasz Konieczny

Stolzius

Renée Morloc

Stolzius\' Mother

Reinhard Mayr

Colonel Obrist

Tenor

Daniel Brenna

Desportes

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Pirzel

Boaz Daniel

Eisenhardt

Matjaž Robavs

Captain Haudy

Morgan Moody

Captain Mary

Gabriela Benacková-Cáp

Gräffin De La Roche

Matthias Klink

The young Count

Beate Vollack

Andalusierin

Conductor

Ingo Metzmacher

Stage director

Alvis Hermanis

Costume designer

Eva Dessecker

Set designer

Lighting designer

Gleb Filshtinsky

Salzburger Festspiele

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

German

Die Soldaten -  (The Soldiers)

Salzburg

Austria

Felsenreitschule

Die Soldaten Zimmermann,B

Public

The Soldiers

English

Approved

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten (The Soldiers) was praised as the highlight of the Salzburg Festival 2012. In Salzburg's Felsenreitschule, the Wiener Philharmoniker performed the opera under Ingo Metzmacher together with a top-flight cast of singers. A massive ensemble of 170 musicians and 50 soloists on stage contribute to make this highly complex composition a direct and physically palpable experience for the audience. The sheer force of the music and its performance are reflected in the Latvian-born director Alvis Hermanis's staging: setting the scene on a 40-metre-wide stage and taking advantage of the room's full height, he portrays the individual episodes and stages of the plot in the simultaneity required by Zimmermann and condenses it into an exciting drama.

The Soldiers by Zimmermann, B. A., From (2012/2012), Directed by Alvis Hermanis,, Conductor Ingo Metzmacher, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria

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