Organization

Chordirektion

Marko Medved

Sänger

Bass

Tobias Schabel

Saldorf

Sopran

Elena Gorshunova

Vielka

Barbara Senator

Therese

Tenor

Jussi Myllys

Konrad

Bariton

Martin Tzonev

Tronk

Christian Georg

Ein Zietener Husar

Johannes Mertes

Steffen

Michael Krinner

Ein Grenadier-Unteroffizier

Ein ungarischer Reiter

Regie

Jakob Peters-Messer

Dirigat

Dirk Kaftan

Lichtgestaltung

Max Karbe

Kostümbild

Sven Bindseil

Bühnenbild

Sebastian Hannak

Sprechrolle

Hartmann

Michael Ihnow

Friedrich der Große

Hermes Helfricht

Assistant director & evening director

Maximilian Reisinger

Musical assistance

Director of Studies

Pauli Jämsä

Correction

Igor Horvat

Elia Tagliavia

Stage Design Assistant

Ansgar Baradoy

Inspector

Barbara Schroeder

Miljan Milovic

Artillerist

Enrico Döring

A soldier

Theater Bonn

Orchestra

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Others

Choir of the Bonn Theater

Extrachor des Theater Bonn

Jan Arvid Prée

Deutsch

Ein Feldlager in Schlesien

Bonn

Deutschland

Opernhaus

Public

Genehmigt

Theater Bonn will be the venue of what is presumably the first revival of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s German-language light opera EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN for nearly one hundred and fifty years. Composed for the occasion of the re-opening of the Royal Opera House in Berlin following the great fire of 1843, the piece features scenes from the life of Frederick II – who actually never appears – and in it, General Music Director Meyerbeer celebrated not only the House of Hohenzollern but also opera itself. This work and the heroic tableaux vivants that concluded its first ever performance express more of an element of national pride than any German-language piece of music theatre ever before. A version revised for Vienna under the title of VIELKA continued on the programmes of opera houses for some time and Meyerbeer included some scenes from FELDLAGER in his opera L’ÉTOILE DU NORD, premiered in Paris in 1854. But as a whole, the original version seemed to have been lost to musical theatre. Volker Tosta, who contributed significantly to the new Meyerbeer-editions of recent years, has been commissioned by Oper Bonn to develop a conclusive performance version that could help FELDLAGER to come back to life on stage. In regard to the once so incomparably successful work of Giacomo Meyerbeer in general but also to the case of FELDLAGER in particular, we must once again ask why the disappearance of this piece was accepted so unquestioningly even after the end of the Nazis’ racial mania in 1945.

For today’s director Jakob Peters-Messer, who already premiered the original version of L’AFRICAINE, the piece poses a very special challenge because its reception is always aware of the disappearance of Meyerbeer’s music, based on slander and racial mania.

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English

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Besetzung

Produktionsteam

Ensemble