Organization

Conductor

Andreas Hotz

Musical assistance and Nachdirigat

Daniel Inbal

Stage director

Jakob Peters-Messer

Set designer

Markus Meyer

Costume designer

Chorus master

Sierd Quarré

Dramaturge

Juliane Piontek

Singer

Susann Vent-Wunderlich

Lean Branchista:

James Edgar Knight

Sennor Esteban

Jan Friedrich Eggers

Semjin

Aljoscha Lennert

Arankan

Rhys Jenkins

Chekhov

Erik Rousi

Guranoff

Olga Privalova

Anschutka & remote voice

Mark Hamman

Rosenberg

Julie Sekinger

Rosette

Chihiro Meier-Tejima

Maoni

Elena Soares da Cruz

Kathrin Brauer

Inqua

Seokwon Oh

Captain

Stefan Kreimer

First seaman

Silvio Heil

Second seaman

Jong-Bae Bu

Sailor's voice

Others

Opera choir of the Osnabrück Theater

Orchestra

Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester

Theater Osnabrück

Ġermaniż

Fremde Erde

Public

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Fremde Erde
Libretto by Kamilla Palffy-Waniek
Opera ・ Theater am Domhof
Duration approx. 3 hours, break after the 2nd act
In German with surtitles

Semjin, a worker from Eastern Europe, is on his way to South America with his fiancée Anhui and her father, hoping to find a better life across the Atlantic. On board the emigrant ship is also the wealthy mine owner Lean Branchista, who engages the attractive Semjin on her infamous saltpeter mines on the spot. A violent affair ensues between the capitalist and the worker. Semjin, torn by his criticism of the exploitative conditions in the mines and his passion for lean, finally flees to New York to return to Europe. In the docks he meets the terminally ill Anshutka who dies in his arms. Desperate and disaffected, Semjin screams for a job "that makes you die quickly!"

Karol Rathaus was born in Galicia in 1895 to Jewish parents and was one of those who had to leave their homeland and hoped for a new, more secure life in America. As a master student of Franz Schreker, he was able to free himself from the dominant influence of his teacher at an early stage and found a musical language that remained tonally bound, but which did take up the different currents of the 1920s - such as twelve-tone technique, jazz and agitprop.

His rarely performed opera Fremde Erde was premiered in 1930 at the Berlin State Opera with great media attention and with Erich Kleiber at the podium. It shows the contrast between the New World and old beliefs, the shattering of the hopes of the emigrants and an unrestrained predatory capitalism.

(c) Maan Mouslli

Fremde Erde - Interview mit Regisseur Jakob Peters-Messer

Krediti ta' prestazzjoni (Il-Kast & l-Ekwipaġġ )

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Ensemble