Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+2)

James Hendry

Mise en scène

Elisabeth Stöppler

Costumes

Costumes (+2)

Gesine Völlm

Soprano

Barno Ismatullaeva

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Monika Walerowicz

Mezzo-Soprano

Ténor

José Simerilla Romero

Basse (+3)

Shavleg Armasi

Basse

Staatsoper Hannover

Chorus

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Décors

Katja Haß

Lumières

Lumières (+1)

Elana Siberski

Direction de choeur

Direction de choeur (+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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