Organization

Admin

Bayerische Staatsoper

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Dirigent

Lothar Koenigs

Regisseur

Regisseur (+1)

Simon Stone

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Ralph Myers

Kostuum ontwerper

Kostuum ontwerper (+1)

Mel Page

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+1)

Lukas Leipfinger

Tenor

Klaus Florian Vogt

Paul

Sopraan (+2)

Vida Mikneviciute

Marietta

Bariton (+4)

Sean Michael Plumb

Frank

Fritz

Mirjam Mesak

Juliette

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

Lucienne

Tenor (+2)

Liam Bonthrone

Gaston

Victorin

Miles Mykkanen

Graf Albert

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Jennifer Johnston

Brigitta

Licht ontwerper

Roland Edrich

Marie

Koor meester

Koor meester (+1)

Christoph Heil

Chorus

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

The boundary between dream and reality increasingly dissolves when Paul, who is mourning his late wife Marie, meets the dancer Marietta. Due to her external resemblance to Marie, Marietta becomes a projection surface for Paul's erotic desires, whose mourning has cult-like characteristics: the carefully preserved strand of hair of the deceased is kept like a relic. After a nerve-racking, cathartic “vision,” Paul is finally grounded in reality. He can leave the city of Bruges as the place for his death cult. The original title of the work “Triumph of Life” is indicative of the protagonist’s personal development.
A few weeks before the immensely successful premiere of Die tote Stadt, none other than Giacomo Puccini described the then 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold as “the strongest hope of new German music”. Because of their melodic urgency, arias such as “Glück, das mir verblichen” and “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” are part of the concert repertoire of numerous opera singers and radiate far beyond the popularity of the Dead City .

Die tote Stadt, Korngold

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Paul

Marietta

Frank

Fritz

Juliette

Lucienne

Gaston

Victorin

Graf Albert

Brigitta

Marie

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Koor meester

Licht ontwerper

Dramaturg

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