Name: Roaring Oper(ett)a
Start: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus Dortmund

Organization

Conductor

Motonori Kobayashi

Olivia Lee-Gundermann

Set designer

Alexander Becker

Lighting designer

Stefan Schmidt

Moderation

Götz Alsmann

Chorus master

Fabio Mancini

Musical Conception

Heribert Germeshausen

Study Direction

Thomas Hannig

Singer

Soprano

Tanja Kuhn

Tenor

Sungho Kim

Mirko Roschkowski

Alexander Geller

Fritz Steinbacher

Bass-baritone

Morgan Moody

Theater Dortmund

Orchestra

Dortmunder Philharmoniker

Others

Opernchor Theater Dortmund

Anna Sohn

Roaring Oper(ett)a

Dortmund

Germany

Opernhaus Dortmund

Opernhaus

Roaring Oper(ett)a: Concert Various

Public

Private

Opera Gala

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Baritone

Countertenor

Bass

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Sungho Kim, Mirko Roschkowski and Tanja Christine Kuhn

Extravagant, dazzling and full of relish – in the post-war period of the 1920s people recaptured life with unrestrained exuberance. Youthfulness, modernity and new beginnings were the buzzwords of the hour and also made themselves felt on the opera stages. While skirts became shorter and shorter and operettas ever more rampant, people discovered the truth of everyday life in opera. Here the genres converged, and Léhar also stated: “The success of an operetta depends to a large extent on a good libretto. The characters in the play must be drawn true to life […].”

The melodies of these works brought joy, comfort and confidence to people in the 1920s and have
not lost their power to this day – the 2020s: from “lips are silent” (from Lehár’s The Merry Widow ) to “Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland” (from Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin ) to “O mio babbino caro” (from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ).

Kurt Tucholsky was cynical: "Puccini is the little man's Verdi, and Lehár is the little man's Puccini." But he was right to name them in the same breath, because they both had a lasting influence on their time. Puccini's music, which is committed to the style of bel canto and is sometimes enriched with colorful or modern sounds, seduces with its large arcs of melody to indulge. Kálmán shaped both the Hungarian operetta and the arrival of the Broadway sound on the German stage. And the works of Lehár, whom Hugo von Hofmannsthal praised for the lightness of his style, saw around 300,000 performances in the first half of the last century.

English

Mit dem Musical Cabaret, der Operette Gräfin Mariza und der Opern- und Operetten-Gala Roaring Oper(ett)a, präsentiert von Götz Alsmann, hat sich die Oper Dortmund in der aktuellen Spielzeit mit gleich drei Produktionen der glanzvollen Epoche der „Wilden Zwanziger“ verschrieben.

Extravagant, schillernd und lustvoll – mit hemmungsloser Ausgelassenheit eroberte man sich in der Nachkriegszeit der 1920er-Jahre das Leben zurück. Jugendlichkeit, Moderne und Aufbruch waren die Schlagwörter der Stunde und machten sich ebenfalls auf den Opernbühnen jener Jahre bemerkbar. Die Melodien der bis heute beliebten Werke haben bereits den Menschen in den 1920er-Jahren Freude, Trost und Zuversicht gespendet – und auch heute, in die 2020er-Jahre, kann man sich der sinnesbetörenden Kraft dieser Musik nicht entziehen.

Doch was verbindet eigentlich die Opern von Giacomo Puccini und Erich Wolfgang Korngold mit den Operetten von Emmerich Kálmán und Franz Lehar? Schon Kurt Tucholskys wusste zu attestieren: „Puccini ist der Verdi des kleinen Mannes, und Lehár ist dem kleinen Mann sein Puccini.“ – Tatsächlich scheint sich in den Opern, Operetten und Tanzmelodien jener Jahre das pulsierende Lebensgefühl einer im Umbruch befindlichen Gesellschaft am Rande des Abgrunds in faszinierender Weise konserviert zu haben – und lädt das Publikum bis heute zu einem berauschenden „Tanz auf dem Vulkan“ ein.

Deutsch

Roaring Oper(ett)a by Various, Fri 03 Feb 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Motonori Kobayashi, Olivia Lee-Gundermann, Opernhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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Cast

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Programme, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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