Name: Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Start: 2024-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Von Krahl teater

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Estonian National Opera

Stage director

Peeter Jalakas

Lighting designer

Priidu Adlas

Conductor

Kaspar Mänd

Set designer

Kristel Zimmer

Baritone

Tamar Nugis

Emperor Overall

Bass-baritone

Priit Volmer

The Death

Mart Laur

The Loudspeaker

Tenor

Heldur Harry Põlda

A soldier

Rafael Dicenta

Harlequin

Soprano

Kristel Pärtna

A maiden

Orchestra

Estonian National Opera Orchestra

Others

Estonian National Opera Chorus

Der Kaiser von Atlantis -  (The Emperor of Atlantis)

Tallinn

Estonia

Von Krahl teater

Der Kaiser von Atlantis Ullmann

Public

The Emperor of Atlantis

Paul Koneri

Approved

Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.

Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.

“The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death” focuses on the dictatorial aspirations of the Emperor of mythical Atlantis in overtaking the role of Death in universal war, where everyone must fight until there is no one left alive. Death protests on the Emperor’s usurpation of his profession and goes on strike until the Emperor agrees to compromise – he must be the first to show how to die for a noble cause. The opera is a satirical jab at Hitler’s vision of the Third Reich and its driving ideology that does not value human life.

English

The Emperor of Atlantis by Ullmann, Sat 17 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Peeter Jalakas,, Conductor Kaspar Mänd, Von Krahl teater, Tallinn, Estonia

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