Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier | Die Illusionen des William Mallory
Komposition
Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier
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Musikalische Leitung
Nicolas André
Conductor
Birthplace:
Caen, France
Studies:
Conservatoires in Caen, Dijon, Versailles; Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse in Lyon
Repertoire:
Opera repertoire (e.g. Bizet, Mozart, David, Destouches, Lachnitz, Britten, Rameau, Liszt, Lully, Cherubini, Halévy), concert repertoire (e.g. Bach, Bizet, Beethoven, Chopin, Barber, Brahms, Caplet, Chostakovitch, Penard, Debussy, Dvorak, Bernstein, Boulez, Duparc, Durufle, Fauré, Jolivet, Landowski, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Tchaikowsky, Satie, Mozart, Mahler, Lalo, Ohana, Rossini, Poulenc, Schubert, Wagner, Saint Saens, Massenet, Sarasate, Paganini, Strauss, Schumann, Stravinsky)
Career stages:
Foundation of the Baroque ensemble Les Enchantements; Founder, Artistic and Musical Director of the Festival d’Arromanches (since 2009), Conductor of the Vlaams Radio Koor (since 2013), Chef associé with Le Concert Spirituel (since 2015), Personal Musical Assistant of General Music Director Kent Nagano (2018–2020)
Stages:
Festival d’Arromanches, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra de Rennes, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Elbphilharmonie, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Symphoniker Hamburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Sinfonie Orchester St. Gallen, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre lyrique de Région Avignon Provence, Orchestre de Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, et al.
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
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Inge Kloepfer
Inge Kloepfer is an award-winning journalist, non-fiction writer and screenwriter. She began her career as a journalist at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", for which she still writes today. Her breakthrough as a highly acclaimed non-fiction author came with the bestseller "Friede Springer - die Biografie", followed by numerous other publications. Together with Kent Nagano, she wrote the books "Erwarten Sie Wunder! Expect the Unexpected" and "10 Lessons of my Life - Was wirklich zählt". Together with Omer Meir Wellber, she wrote "Die Angst, das Risiko und die Liebe - Momente mit Mozart", a book that deals with the collaboration between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, using the three operas "Don Giovanni", "Die Hochzeit des Figaro" and "Cosí van tutte" as examples. Most recently, her biography of the highly gifted pianist, composer and mathematician Kit Armstrong "Metamorphosen eines Wunderkinds" was published. Her debut as a novelist followed in 2023 with "The Doubts of Homer Spiegelman". She has now published her first libretto with "Die Illusionen des William Mallory".
photo: Daniel Biskup
Szenische Einrichtung
Georges Delnon
Director
Georges Delnon was born in 1958 in Zurich. He studied history and art history at the Universities of Bern and Friborg as well as composition and music theory at the Bern Conservatory. Positions as assistant director, including works with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Götz Friedrich and Giorgio Strehler, completed his training.
This was followed by the first opera and theater productions such as "Carmen" and "Fledermaus" at the Frankfurt Opera, "Dido" in Toulouse, "Rape of Lucretia" in Dusseldorf and Basel, "Fräulein Julie" in Essen, "La Griselda" (Vivaldi) in Geneva, "Junge Lord" (Henze), "Maria Stuart" and "Ezio" for the Händel Festival in Karlsruhe, "Schwarze Spinne" (Sutermeister), "Das Lachen der Schafe " (Demierre) and "König für einen Tag" (Grünauer) for the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. In 1996, he took over his first artistic directon at the Theater of the City of Koblenz and became co-founder of the Koblenz fortress games. From 1999-2006, he became Artistic Director of the Staatstheater Mainz, where numerous works were created. Among other things, the reopening of the Great House was broadcasted live on 3Sat in 2001 with the staging of the opera "Saul" by G. F. Händel.
Other works as director during this period include "Il figlio delle selve" by Ignaz Holzbauer for the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Féstival Radio France Montpellier. In addition, Georges Delnon appeared as an actor in the movie “HEIMAT 3” by Edgar Reitz.
In 2004, he directed the world premiere of Mark André, "22.13", for the Munich Biennale, the Festival d'Automne à Paris and the Opéra National de Paris. In 2005 and 2006, he staged the world premiere "Zaubern" by Frederik Zeller and the baroque opera "Proserpina" by Joseph Martin Kraus for the Schwetzinger Festspiele.
From 2006 to 2015, Georges Delnon has been director of the Theatre Basel, Switzerland's largest three-party house. Under his leadership, the theatre became Opera House of the Year in the Opernwelt Critics Survey twice, in 2009 and 2010. In 2010, he directed Giuseppe Verdi's TV production "Aida am Rhein", which was broadcasted live on Swiss television and on 3Sat.
In 2012, he directed the world premiere of Alfred Zimmerlin's music theatre "Das Licht" for the Lucerne Festival and in 2013 "Anschlag", also for the Lucerne Festival and märz musik Berlin.
From 2009 to 2016, Georges Delnon was Artistic Director of the Music Theatre of the Schwetzinger SWR Festival. The two world premieres "Proserpina" in 2009 and "Koma" in 2016 were honored in the critics' poll of the opera world as "premiere of the year".
Since 2015, he is the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Under his leadership, Alban Berg's "Lulu" is voted "Performance of the Year" in the critics' survey of the opera world in 2017, and director Christoph Marthaler receives the Faust Prize for this production. In the summer of 2018, Georges Delnon's Hamburg staging of the Zauberflöte for young people "Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht", was screened in Shanghai. In 2019 he staged the chamber opera "THERÈSE", which was premiered at the Salzburg Easter Festival and celebrated its German premiere in the Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie at the Hamburg International Music Festival.
photo: Peter Schnetz
Ausstattung
Marie-Thérèse Jossen
Stage and costume designer
Birthplace:
Luzern, Switzerland
Studies:
Dressmaking
Important productions:
“THERÈSE” (Osterfestspiele Salzburg UA / Elbphilharmonie, directed by: Georges Delnon), “Saul” (Staatstheater Mainz, directed by: Georges Delnon); “Don Giovanni” (Staatstheater Mainz, directed by: Georges Delnon); “...22,13...” (Co-production of the Munich Biennale with the Staatstheater Mainz and the Festival d'automne à Paris); “Der Alte vom Berge” (Koproduktion des Theater Basel mit den Schwetzinger SWR Festspielen, 2007); seit 2004 Kostümbilder zu Martin Schläpfers Balletten “Frogs and Crows”, “Ritirata notturna”, “Diabelli-Variationen”, “Reformationssymphonie”, “3” und “Pezzi und Tänze”; “Unleashing the Wolf” (Ballett am Rhein), “La Traviata” (Staatstheater Mainz, directed by: Vera Nemirova); “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (Theater Erfurt/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, directed by: Vera Nemirova), et al.
Career stages:
Costumes management at Luzerner Theater; Guest engagements at the theaters in Saarbrücken, Hannover, Wuppertal, Dortmund, Mainz, Theater in der Josefstadt Wien, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, several Swiss stages (Opera and drama productions)
Cooperations:
Georges Delnon, Martin Schläpfer, Vera Nemirova, et al.
photo: Philipp Göbel
Dramaturgie
Ralf Waldschmidt
Dramaturgy
Birthplace:
Hanau on the Main, Germany
Studies:
Studied German, English and Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on the Main; received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on Richard Wagner's “Parsifal” (1987)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera
leading Dramaturge at the Hamburg State Opera since the 2021/22 season
Career stages:
Intendant of the Osnabrück Theatre (2011–2021), opera director at the Augsburg Theatre (2007–2011), chief dramaturge and deputy to the general director at the Bremen Theatre, dramaturge at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden (1999–2003), Engagements as head dramaturge and member of the artistic management at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Freiburg Theatre, dramaturge at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1987–1992), assistant director and dramaturge at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken and the Frankfurt Opera
Cooperations:
Ruth Berghaus, Jürgen Flimm, Nicolas Brieger, Bruno Klimek, Harry Kupfer, Urs Troller, Rosamund Gilmore, Urs Schaub, Peter Mussbach, Percy Adlon, Alexander May, Barrie Kosky, Yona Kim, Reinhild Hoffmann und Dirigenten wie Friedemann Layer, Marc Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Lawrence Renes, Stefan Klingele, Sebastian Weigle, Dirk Kaftan, Andreas Hotz, Daniel Inbal, et al.
photo: Uwe Lewandwoski
Mallory
Christian Miedl
Baritone
Birthplace:
Passau, Germany
Studies:
Lied interpretation at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Wolfgang Holzmair and international business studies
Prizes:
Concert prize at the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona
Important parts:
Prince Artur Friedrich von Homburg (Der Prinz von Homburg), Valmont (Quartett), Achilles (Penthesilea), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Peter Besenbinder (Hänsel und Gretel), Amfortas (Parsifal), Malaspina (Luci me traditrici), Prior Walter (Angels in America), Il Conte d'Almaviva (Die Hochzeit des Figaro), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Hans Scholl (Weiße Rose), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Bavarian State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Bonn Opera, Cologne Opera, Malmö Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Basel Theatre, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Lucerne Festival, Casa da Musica Porto, Spoleto Festival USA, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Renaud Doucet, Barbara Frey, Claus Guth, Tatjana Gürbaca, Peter Konwitschny, Christof Nel, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Marc Albrecht, Pierre Bleuse, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Eötvös, Daniel Harding, Susanna Mälkki, Kent Nagano, Simone Young, et al.
photo: Heike Steuer
Gotti
Michael Heim
tenor
Origin:
Thüringen (Vorarlberg), Austria
Studies:
Study of pedagogy (music teacher); then ten years as a journalist for "Vorarlberger Nachrichten"; Singing Studies with Prof. Habib Samadzadeh, Nicolai Gedda and Franzisco Araiza; since 2009 with KS Irmgard Boas in Dresden, Germany
Prizes:
Scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner Stiftung, Order of Honour for the Arts of Cordon Bleu du Saint Esprit
Important parts:
Siegfried (Siegfried), Erik (Fliegender Holländer), Lohengrin (Lohengrin), Max (Der Freischütz), Florestan (Fidelio), Alfredo (La traviata), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Narraboth (Salome), Paganini (Paganini), Graf Tassilo (Gräfin Mariza), Gabriel von Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Adam (Der Vogelhändler), Edwin (Die Csárdásfürstin), Herzog Guido von Urbino (Eine Nacht in Venedig), et al.
Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Luzerner Theater, Staatsoperette Dresden, Oper Leipzig Musikalische Komödie, Theater St. Gallen, Wiener Kammeroper, Musik Theater Schönbrunn, Opera di Genova Teatro Carlo Felice, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Theater Chemnitz Opernhaus, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, Seebühne Bregenz, Tiroler Landestheater (Innsbruck), Lincoln Center New York, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Die Glocke (Das Bremer Konzerthaus), Brucknerhaus Linz, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Philharmonie Essen, Kölner Philharmonie, Münchner Residenz, Frauenkirche Dresden, Dresdner Philharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Schubertiade Hohenems, Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, Seefestspiele Mörbisch, Tokio, Aberdeen, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kurt Masur, Peter Schreier, Manfred Honeck, Robin Ticciati, Jörg Demus, Kirill Petrenko, Ralf Weikert, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Vladimir Jurowski, Johannes Wildner, Herbert Mogg, Franz Bauer-Theussel, Alfred Eschwé, Lukas Beikircher, Ernst Theis, Laurence Dale, et al.
Sibyl
Layla Claire
Soprano
Birthplace:
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Studies:
The Curtis Institute of Music
Member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program
Prizes:
Hildegard Behrens Award, Metropolitan Opera
Mozart Prize, Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy
Laureate Queen Elisabeth Competition
Important parts:
Alcina (Alcina), Nitocris (Belshazzar), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights), Donna Elvira/Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Sandrina (La Finta Giardiniera), Tebaldo (Don Carlo), Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress), Marenka (The Bartered Bride) et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera House, Opéra National de Lorraine, Karlsruhe Handel Festival, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne Festival, Salzburg Festival, Hamburg State Opera, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Robert Carsen, Nicholas Hytner, Willy Decker, Stephen Wadsworth, Sebastian Baumgarten, James Darrah, Stephen Lawless, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Andreas Spering, Riccardo Minasi, Laurence Cummings, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, James Gaffigan, James Levine, Jakub Hrusa, William Christie, Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson-Thomas et al.
photo: Simon Pauly
Orchester
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016 Nagano and the Philharmonic undertook a successful three-week concert tour in South America, a tour of Spain followed in 2019. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released at ECM.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede