Organization

Bregenz Festival

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Daniel Johannes Mayr

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Vasily Barkhatov

Soprano

Yannick-Muriel Noah

Stephana

Mezzo-soprano (+6)

Susanne Blattert

Nikona

Tenor (+1)

Santiago Sánchez

Prince Alexis

Bass (+1)

Michael Krinner

Mishkinsky

Bass (+2)

Martin Tzonev

Walinoff

The Governor

L'invalido

Set designer

Set designer (+4)

Christian Schmidt

Costume designer

Nicole von Graevenitz

Soprano (+3)

Clarry Bartha

La fanciulla

Tenor

George Oniani

Vassili

Tenor (+7)

Johannes Mertes

Ivan

Il cosacco

Bass

Juhwan Cho

The Inspector

The captain

Assistant Stage Director

Soprano (+1)

Alma Gentile

Yaroslavia Kalesidis

Juana Inés Cano Restrepo

Assistant Set Designer

Set designer (+1)

Ansgar Baradoy

Video

Christian Borchers

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Alexander Sivaev

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Marco Medved

Baritone (+3)

Giorgos Kanaris

Gleby

Taras Ivaniv

The Sargent

Theater Bonn

Orchestra

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Chorus

Choir of the Bonn Theater

Extras

Extras of the Theater Bonn

Opernhaus

It is an immense act of love, when Stephana gives up her life as a courtesan in the elegant villa in Saint Petersburg to follow her true love Vassilli to the prison camp in Siberia. There, in exile, Stephana turns into an indefatigable heroine.

The effective and dense plot, the liveliness of the characters’ emotions, the striking choruses are rendered by Umberto Giordano in his Italian opera SIBERIA in the verismo tradition. Passionate torrents of feeling culminate in the erotic ecstasy of the lovers, overwhelming in their emotional genuineness that is reenforced by almost filmic flashbacks. Fascinating Russian sound, from the Hymn to the Czar, the Russian national anthem, to the popular Song of the Volga Boatmen, is integrated into the entrancing music.

Despite all the local color, SIBERIA for Giordano, the composer of ANDREA CHENIER and FEDORA, is a universally human drama: “Love and suffering have no nationality.” As a member of the “giovane scuola” (the young school), Giordano opposed the omnipresence of Giuseppe Verdi in the repertoire, aspired to realism on the opera stage, and found his orientation in the music of Wagner and Massenet. SIBERIA premiered in 1903 at the Teatro alla Scala instead of Giacomo Puccini’s postponed MADAMA BUTTERFLY.

A young artist from Moscow will stage this inspiring work for the Bonner Opera: the internationally up-and-coming director Vasily Barkhatov will make his debut in Bonn with this work here.

Italian

Siberia

Bonn

Germany

Staged

Opera

German

English

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