Organization

Conductor

Michael Balke

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Josef Ernst Köpplinger

Choreographer

Stage director (+6)

Adam Cooper

Set designer

Set designer (+3)

Johannes Leiacker

Costume designer

Alfred Mayerhofer

Lighting designer

Ralf Reitmaier

Video

Raphael Kurig

Meike Ebert

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+2)

Michael Alexander Rinz

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

Chorus

Chorus of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

Children's Chorus of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

Orchestra

Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

Conductor (+3)

Oleg Ptashnikov

Tenor (+4)

Juan Carlos Falcón

The Grand Duchess

Tenor (+3)

Daniel Prohaska

Le prince Paul

Tenor (+2)

Matteo Ivan Rasic

Fritz

Soprano

Julia Sturzlbaum

Wanda

Bass-baritone (+4)

Alexander Grassauer

General Boum

Baritone (+2)

Gunnar Frietsch

La baron Puck

Singer (+5)

Alexander Franzen

Grog

Soprano (+4)

Sigrid Hauser

Nepomouc

Soprano (+2)

Ulrike Dostal

Ein Fremdenführer

Tenor (+5)

Peter Neustifter

Soldat Wenzel

Actor

Samuel Tobias Klauser

Soldat Urs

Luca Giaccio

Soldat Ladislaus

Dancer

Giovanni Corrado

Soldat Rudi

Mikaël Champs

Soldat Georg

Alexander Quetell

Douglas Evangelista

Le soldat Krak

David Valencia

Soldat Heinz-Karl

Matthew Jared Perko

Soldat Balthasar

Ethan Ribeiro

Willer Gonçalves Rocha

Soldat Rüdiger

Dancer (+1)

Alexander Hille

Gärtnerplatztheater

"Uniformis amor" – that's what people call a particularly strong preference for uniforms and their content. If a reigning head of state is affected by it, things can quickly become explosive: Within a few moments, a private becomes the commanding general, courtiers tremble for their influence, and wars are instigated at whim. But woe betide if the object of state-directing desire pursues completely different plans...!

At the peak of his career, Jacques Offenbach succeeded in producing no less than a brightly colored satire on militarism, favoritism, small states and provincialism with the operetta »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein«, which he presented in 1867 as a kind of »cultural contribution« to the Paris World Exhibition. Using the example of a fictitious Grand Duchy, he and his librettists created a dazzling stage work including some of his most beautiful melodies, which is still more relevant today than ever in view of warmongering and abuse of power. After its acclaimed premiere in 2020 at the Dresden Semperoper, Josef E. Köpplinger's pointed production is now coming to Munich!

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