Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

James Hendry

Stage director

Elisabeth Stöppler

Costume designer

Costume designer (+2)

Gesine Völlm

Soprano

Barno Ismatullaeva

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Monika Walerowicz

Mezzo-soprano

Tenor

José Simerilla Romero

Bass (+3)

Shavleg Armasi

Bass

Staatsoper Hannover

Chorus

Choir of the Hanover State Opera

Orchestra

The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover

Set designer

Katja Haß

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Elana Siberski

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Lorenzo Da Rio

Dramaturge

Daniel Menne

Opernhaus

Ruzana Grigorian

Director Elisabeth Stöppler returns to Hanover and researches Trionfo. Four Last Nights with music by George Frideric Handel and Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele , again after moments of transition: between this world and the afterlife, anger and despair, consolation and love. In the space of the theatre, shared between the audience and the participants for the duration of the performance, the major themes are carefully taken up – and transformed into questions. Because the mystery of life knows more questions than answers...

Messa da Requiembased on Giuseppe Verdi's powerful funeral mass, which the Italian wrote in the 1870s at the height of his career as an opera composer. It is characterized by a floating thoughtfulness: the choir’s songs hang over the orchestral sounds like wafts of fog, four soloists raise their voices in lamentation and prayer. And again and again the desperation of the Last Judgment breaks through the calm like hammer blows.

The scenic adaptation of the Requiem, conducted by James Hendry, expands the conceptual space to the elusive edges of human existence: a place of remembrance emerges, for the celebration of life.

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