Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Singer

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Jeanne

Bass

Andrew Harris

Vater Rangier

Contralto

Nadezhda Karyazina

Ninon

Danae Kontora

Philippe

Baritone

Jochen Kupfer

Mannoury

Tenor

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Baron de Laubardemont

Sean Michael Plumb

Prince Henri de Condé

Martin Snell

Father Ambrose

Bass-baritone

Christian Rieger

Bontemps

Ulrich Reß

Vater Mignon

Kevin Conners

Adam

Stage director

Simon Stone

Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski

Costume designer

Mel Page

Set designer

Bob Cousins

Dramaturge

Malte Krasting

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

Choir

Alice Stamataki

Robert Dölle

Grandier

Jordan Shanahan

Martin Winkler

Vater Barré

Mezzo-soprano

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen

Claire

Spoken

Barbara Horvath

de Cerisay

Thiemo Strutzenberger

d'Armagnac

Steffen Recks

Gerichtsvorsteher

Nadezhda Gulitskaya

Gabrielle

Lindsay Ammann

Louise

Wolfgang Koch

Piotr Micinski

Set Design Assistance

Anna Wunderkirchner

Lighting designer

Nick Schlieper

Father Mignon

Jean d'Armagnac

Anna Avdalyan

Ursulinen

Helene Böhme

Antje Lohse

Rebecca Suta

Mechtild Söffler

Mengting Wu

Camilla Saba Davies

Elisa de Toffol

Tina Drole

Albina Gitman

Laura Hilden

Ulrike Malotta

Bayerische Staatsoper

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Others

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

German

Die Teufel von Loudun -  (The Devils of Loudun)

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Krzysztof Penderecki 's The Devils of Loudun premieres on Monday, June 27, 2022 at 7 p.m., opening this year's Munich Opera Festival. Wolfgang Koch, who was supposed to sing the role of Grandier, unfortunately has to cancel the premiere due to illness.

The opera The  Devils of Loudun has rarely been performed in recent years, which has made the selection of singers who have already worked the role in their repertoire extremely complicated. We have now found a very unusual solution. Robert Dölle, from the Residenztheater ensemble, will stage the role and Jordan Shanahan sings the role from the side.

We thank both artists for their spontaneity and wish Wolfgang Koch a speedy recovery.

Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper München

Die Teufel von Loudun Penderecki

Public

Private

The Devils of Loudun

English

Approved

Aldous Huxley depicted these processes in a vivid historical novel in 1952 and in 1969 Krzysztof Penderecki created an opera from a dramatization of this book that is second to none: The Devils of Loudun. In it he brings up a huge abundance of voices and instruments, sounds and noises, which he combines entirely to suit the needs of the scene. The 34 short scenes wash over the audience like waves, and after a short time you gasp for air. This work is one of the most haunting of the 20th century, has remained shockingly topical and is now coming, for the first time in Munich, as a premiere at the opening of the 2022 Opera Festival on the stage of the National Theater.

The name Simon Stone, still an insider tip five years ago, has now become a trademark in the world of music theater. The director, who was born in Basel and grew up in England and Australia, has quickly built a reputation for his detailed, realistic operas that have been consistently translated into modern visual and living environments. While still at school he founded his own theater academy, with which he adapted plays by Chekhov and Ibsen and developed his concept of "overwriting" old stories in a modern setting. Since 2012 the international theater world has noticed his work with invitations to festivals; in 2015 he shot his first feature film, followed by the second, The Dig , in 2021 . Simon Stone's handwriting is unmistakable, whether he worked with Ralph Myers as a set designer (as with  Die Toten Stadt , his first opera work, which was shown in Basel in 2016 and in Munich in 2019) or, as with the  Devils of Loudun , with Bob Cousins ​​(stage) and Mel Page (costumes) - the latter are long-term partners in a joint collaboration that goes back to student productions in Australia and up to celebrated premieres at the Salzburg Festival ( Lear, Médée) suffices. The musical direction of the Munich premiere of Penderecki's first opera is in the hands of GMD Vladimir Jurowski, who has already campaigned for the work - at the Dresden Music Festival almost exactly 20 years before the Munich premiere: the best conditions for teamwork the  devils of Loudun .

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