Theater Bonn has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the opera productions. “Frankenstein Junior” will be conducted by Jürgen Grimm and directed by Jens Kerbel. Performance Dates: August 20, 2023-March 9, 2024 Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail“ will be conducted by Hermes Helfricht and directed by Katja Czellnik. Performance Dates: Sept. 17, 2023-Jan. 14, 2024 Daniel {…}
Germany’s Theater Bonn has announced its 2022-23 season. Here are the operatic productions this season. Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” will star Susanne Blattert, Martin Koch, Giorgos Kanaris, Natalie Karl, Matthias Klink, Mark Morouse, and Tobias Schabel. Dirk Kaftan conducts the production by Volker Lösch. Performance Dates: Sept. 11, 2022-Jan. 7, 2023 Martin Mühle, Svetlana {…}
(Credit: https://www.bonn-city.de/) Theater Bonn has announced the cancelation of the rest of 2020-21 season. The opera house announced on April 23 that the theater will not perform until after the summer vacation in August 2021. “We are of the opinion that under the current conditions with the lack of planning security, effort and benefit are in no relation to each {…}
(Credit: Ashley Plante) When Berlin opera houses called off their performances in March due to the COVID 19 pandemic, one rarely performed opera was stopped dead in its track- the Komische Oper’s production of “Schwanda.” Among the artists set to star in that production was American soprano Sara Jakubiak. Jakubiak, who has appeared on the most important world stages, to {…}
Theater Bonn has announced its 2019-20 season. Here is a look. Premiere Hermes Helfricht conducts a new production of Sciarrino’s “Inferno Infinito” by Mark Daniel Hirsch. Dshamilja Kaiser is set to sing the role of Maria Magdalena in the new opera. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-29, 2019 Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” is set for a new production by Josef Ernst Köpplinger. The production will {…}
Any composition called “Marx in London,” especially when categorized as a comic opera, is more likely to encourage expectations of Groucho, Harpo and Chico than the ornery, orotund author of “The Communist Manifesto.” Although Karl Marx spent many years in London, Jonathan Dove’s latest operatic endeavor, commissioned by Theater Bonn, focuses on just 24 hours of the philosopher’s domestically dysfunctional {…}
Karl Marx is one of the essential figures in all of history influencing numerous movements. Now this prominent German thinker, the author of “The Communist Manifesto” will get his turn on the operatic stage. The new work, which will be written by Jonathan Dove and commissioned by the Theater Bonn, will look at the Communist Thinker’s home life. Reports indicate {…}
The starting point for any production of Peter Grimes lies in the interpretation of the opera’s central character, namely Peter Grimes himself: to what extent should the audience be encouraged to view the anti-hero as an outsider, a victim of the underlying, but all-pervading intolerance and hypocrisy which saturates the Borough, rather than simply as a sadistic sociopath? Clearly, any {…}