Name: Last Paradise Lost
Start: 2022-06-26
End: 2022-06-26
Location: Pfalztheater

Organization

Stage director

Johannes Reitmeier

Conductor

Thorsten Schmid-Kapfenburg

Costume designer

Michael D Zimmermann

Set designer

Thomas Dörfler

Dramaturge

Ronny Scholz

Singer

Randy Diamond

Lucifer

Andy Kuntz

Archangel

Frank Kühfuß

Adam

Anber-Chiara Eul

Astrid Vosberg

Beelzebub

Edward R. Serban

Belial

Peter Floch

Ithuriel

Adrienn Cunka

Seraph

Alexis Wagner

Abaddon

Christian Köbler

Abdiel

Lisana Werno

Zophiel

Andreas Kowalewitz

Boris Cepeda

Chorus master

Anton Tremmel

Tiroler Landestheater

Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

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Chor des Pfalztheaters

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Sinfonieorchester Münster

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Last Paradise Lost

Kaiserslautern

Germany

Pfalztheater

Großes Haus

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German

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Last Paradise Lost Werno

Rockoper von Günter Werno, Andy Kuntz, Stephan Lill & Johannes Reitmeier nach John Miltons epischem Gedicht PARADISE LOSTSzenenfolge und Textfassung von Andy...

John Milton's eloquent verse epic “Paradise Lost” from 1667 tells of the fall of the angels into hell, of Satan's rebellion against God's order, of how sin came into the world, and of the temptation of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the garden of eden.
In his text, Milton refers to various biblical sources from both the Old and the New Testament, but he also takes up motifs from ancient texts such as Homer and Virgil.
In its time the work was read as a parable of the English civil war in the middle of the 17th century, in later epochs one saw and still see a representation of the moral dilemma of man, being able to differentiate between good and bad. Artists of all branches and directions have been inspired by Milton's text again and again up to the present day.
After the rock oratorio “Ludus Danieli” (2008) and the rock mystery “Everyman” (“Jedermann”; 2015), the Vanden Plas musicians Günter Werno, Andy Kuntz and Stephan Lill, together with Johannes Reitmeier, are once again bringing a great stage work in the style of a medieval morality play as a rock opera for the world premiere.
The hymnically opulent sound of Germany's leading ProgMetal band “Vanden Plas” seems almost predestined to capture Milton's epic with its powerful images between heaven, paradise and hell in music.
The title “The Last Paradise Lost” builds a bridge to today:
Humanity currently has perhaps the last chance to preserve creation.

Last Paradise Lost by Werno, Sun 26 Jun 2022, From (2021/2022), Directed by Johannes Reitmeier,, Conductor Thorsten Schmid-Kapfenburg, Andreas Kowalewitz, Boris Cepeda, Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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