Name: Vladimir Jurowski: Die Nacht vor Weihnachten
Start: 2022-12-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Lighting designer

Diego Leetz

Stage director

Anisha Bondy

Singer

Tenor

Alexander Fedorov

Devil

Mezzo-soprano

Josefine Mindus

Woman with a violet nose

Marco Philipp

Costume designer

Uta Jäger

Mikhaïl Vekua

Soloist

Dmitry Ulyanov

Sofia Fomina

Ksenia Dudnikova

Vasily Efimov

Marina Prudenskaya

Sergei Leiferkus

Artyom Wasnetsov

Milan Siljanov

Vsevolod Grivnov

Nadine Weissmann

Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski

Vakula the blacksmith

Bass

Chub

Soprano

Oksana

Solokha

Tsarina

Baritone

Head of the Village

Bass-baritone

Patsyuk

Panas

Chorus master

Iosif Ion Prunner

Set designer

Deacon

Others

Philharmonischer Chor Berlin

Orchestra

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Berliner Philharmoniker

Vladimir Jurowski: Die Nacht vor Weihnachten

Berlin

Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

Public

The Night before Christmas

Viacheslav Shumov

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

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The Walpurgis Night before Christmas
As seductively romantic as the title sounds, it is just as pagan and archaic in Rimsky-Korsakov's sonorous opera, which is not played on Christmas Eve, but the night before. A devil who no longer feels that he is being taken seriously, a witch whose son is a brave, honest blacksmith, a tsarina who is giving away her golden shoes. Rimsky-Korsakov takes Russian, melodically simple "Koljadki" songs, layers them into harmonically entangled choral passages or lets them sing against each other in fast-paced dialogues. In this way he can assert completely contradictory things at the same time and in the most beautiful musical agreement, "fired up" in the literal sense of the word by the orchestra, which in turn leads a highly seductive sound life of its own. Great audio theatre. Merry Christmas!

English

Die Walpurgisnacht vor Weihnachten
So verführerisch romantisch der Titel klingt, so heidnisch archaisch geht es zu in der klangüppigen Oper von Rimski-Korsakow, die eben nicht in der Weihnachtsnacht spielt, sondern in der Nacht davor. Ein Teufel, der sich nicht mehr ernst genommen fühlt, eine Hexe, die einen wackeren, rechtschaffenen Schmied zum Sohn hat, eine Zarin, die ihre goldenen Schuhe verschenkt. Rimski-Korsakow nimmt russische, melodisch einfache „Koljadki“-Gesänge, schichtet sie zu harmonisch verknäulten Chorpassagen auf oder lässt sie als rasante Dialoge gegeneinander singen. So kann er gleichzeitig und in musikalisch schönstem Einvernehmen völlig gegensätzliche Dinge behaupten, ange„feuert“ im Wortsinn vom Orchester, das seinerseits ein höchst verführerisches Klang-Eigenleben führt. Großes Hörtheater. Frohe Weihnachten!

Deutsch

Vladimir Jurowski: Die Nacht vor Weihnachten by Rimsky-Korsakov, Fri 23 Dec 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Anisha Bondy,, Conductor Vladimir Jurowski, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

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