Organization

Singer

Johannes Pietzonka

Jack Worthing

Soprano

Miriam Zubieta

Cecily Cardew

Tenor

Kai Wefer

Algernon Moncrieff

Eva-Maria Wurlitzer

Lady Augusta Bracknell

Claudia Müller

Gwendolin

Bass-baritone

Johannes Beck

Frederic Chasuble

Mechthild Scrobanita

Laetitia Prism

Anne Preuß

Johannes Emmrich

Jeremias

Baritone

John

Stage director

AnnaLisa Canton

Conductor

Thomas Wicklein

Costume designer

Elena Köhler

Set designer

Choreographer

Dramaturge

Catharina Jacobi

Chorus master

Alexandros Diamantis

Ensemble

Olav Kröger

Gwendolen

Theater Altenburg Gera

Orchestra

Opera choir of the Altenburg Gera Theater

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera

Mein Freund Bunbury

Altenburg

Germany

Gera, Grosses Haus

Theaterzelt

Public

Approved

"My friend Bunbury is my best alibi and I know he never lets me down!"
Algernon

London in the roaring 1920s. Jack Worthing and his wards Cecily Cardew stand at the train station collecting for the Salvation Army. Both minds are completely different: Jack wants to go to his friend Algernon Moncrieff to secretly become engaged to his cousin Gwendolen. Cecily is looking forward to her appearance as "Sunshine Girl" in the Music Hall. Laetitia Prism and Pastor Frederic Chasuble, who also collect alms, have no idea of ​​their double life. Just like the morally inviolable Lady Augusta Bracknell, Jack's aunt. The material well-being of Cecily, Jack and Algernon depends on their bourgeois façade or on the benevolence of wealthy relatives. It's good to have Bunbury, the personified alibi. But one day this alibi is revealed.

After the acclaimed premiere in 1964 in Berlin's Metropol-Theater, My Friend Bunbury was the first to be performed in Altenburg with great success; Heinz Scholze's new production in 1979 was also acclaimed. Thanks to its frivolous and amusing plot, lively dialogues, electrifying rhythms and brisk hits, the most successful musical from GDR times has lost none of its wit and temperament to this day. After 42 years, the masterpiece by Gerd Natschinski (1928-2015) is now returning to Altenburg!

English

Mein Freund Bunbury by Natschinski, From (2021/2022), Directed by AnnaLisa Canton,, Conductor Thomas Wicklein, Theaterzelt, Altenburg, Germany

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