Organization

Tenor (+1)

Linard Vrielink

Asle

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Katharina Kammerloher

Ma Herdis

Midwife

Mezzosopraan (+4)

Hanna Schwarz

Old Woman

Sopraan (+2)

Sarah Defrise

Girl

Bas (+7)

Jan Martinik

Innkeeper

Bas-bariton (+4)

Tómas Tómasson

Man in Black

Bariton (+3)

Roman Trekel

Boatman

Tenor

Siyabonga Maqungo

Jeweler

Bariton (+4)

Arttu Kataja

Asleik

Regisseur

Regisseur (+4)

Kornél Mundruczó

Licht ontwerper

Felice Ross

Nicole Hyde

Double Vocal Trio (2 soprano, 2 mezzo, 2 alto)

Yingsi He

Sopraan (+1)

Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir

Mezzosopraan

Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Alexandra von Roepke

Tenor (+3)

Andrés Moreno García

Six Fishermen (3 tenors, 2 baritones, 1 bass)

Tenor (+2)

Sotiris Charalampous

Florian Hoffmann

Carles Pachon

Bas-bariton (+3)

Benjamin Chamandy

Bas (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Monika Pormale

Kostuum ontwerper

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Victoria Randem

Alida

Samantha Britt

Dirigent

Componist (+2)

Peter Eötvös

Gábor Káli

Heather Green

Bariton (+2)

Rory Green

Jaka Mihelač

Gonzalo Quinchahual

Taehan Kim

»When it’s out of necessity, anything is permissible, he says. Maybe you’re right, she says.« The place: Bergen, Norway. It’s cold. It’s raining. Asle and the heavily pregnant Alida wander around the coastal city. The young couple are turned away wherever they go. The likes of them are not welcome here. Each pause masks a further drift into a surreal psychological haze. Driven by desperation, they break into a stranger’s house. A series of mysterious encounters in which the past comes to life proves to be a disastrous race against time.

Adapting a short story of the same title by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, the Hungarian conductor-composer Peter Eötvös, one of the most influential figures in new music today, composed »Sleepless« on commission. In it, he and the librettist Mari Mezei interweave snapshots of the existential search for belonging, crime as a response to human indifference and the struggle with a sense of being out of place, generating a kind of suggestive, operatic stream of consciousness. The world premier also marks the Staatsoper Unter den Linden debut of the Hungarian film, theatre and opera director Kornél Mundruczó, well-known for cinematically realistic works that often address contemporary social themes.

Engels

Sleepless

Berlijn

Duitsland