Ballet by John Neumeier after Homer | The Odyssey
Fri, Mar. 01, 2024, 7.30 pm - 9.45 pm
Odysseus
Christopher Evans
Principal
BORN
2.11.94 in Loveland, CO. American
EDUCATION
BalletMet Dance Academy
Canada's National Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Susan Dromisky, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2012, Soloist 2015, Principal since 2018
CREATIONS
Jim O'Connor in "The Glass Menagerie"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Turangalîla
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)
REPERTORY
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fabian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatjana"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Man I in "Bernstein Dances"
Gustav von Aeschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet 21"
Love/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Catalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Neufassung 2021)
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "Endstation Sehnsucht"
Odysseus in *Odyssey"
Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Mann in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Prince Florizel in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
St John Rivers in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Petrushka-Variations
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
At Midnight
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Soul Sketch"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"A Cosmic Second"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2010
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2015
Find further information about Christopher Evans here.
Penelope
Anna Laudere
Principal
BORN
19.2.83 in Sigulda. Latvian
EDUCATION
Riga Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Valentins Blinovs, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen, Irina Jacobson, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2001, promoted Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2011
CREATIONS
The Maiden-who-never-laughs in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Calliope in "Orpheus"
The Friend (Isadora Duncan) in "Duse"
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina in "Anna Karenina"
A Widow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
A Foreign Sound (Thiago Bordin)
At Asyl-Um (Luva-Andrea Tessarini)
Anima (Edvin Revazov)
REPERTORY
Lady Capulet and Rosalind in "Romeo and Juliet"
Cinderella, Cinderella's Mother, A Stepsister and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Eleonora Bereda in "Nijinsky"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise and La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Giselle and Myrtha in "Giselle"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
Solveig and Aase in "Peer Gynt"
Eurydice in "Orphée et Eurydice"
La Barbarina and Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
The Queen and The Rose in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Penelope in *Odyssey"
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Mauve and in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Wife and the Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Queen Hermione in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Blanche Ingram in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio I-VI (she danced this role for the premiere)
Verklungene Feste
Saint Matthew Passion
Requiem
Vaslav
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Adagietto
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Messias
Turangalîla
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2008
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2018
Latvian Excellence Award in Culture 2019
The Russian-Italian Prize Benois-Massine 2019
Order of the Three Stars – Highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia
Find further information about Anna Laudere here.
Telemachos
João Santana
Corps de Ballet
BORN
17.06.02 in Barra Bonita (São Paulo), Brazil. Brazilian
EDUCATION
Academia Roda Viva
MAIN TEACHERS
Jair Moraes, Erinaldo Conrado, Simone Malta, Ana Maria Campos, Olga Dolganova, Gisele Bellot
ENGAGEMENTS
Junior Company of Centro de Educação em Artes Basileu França in 2018
National Youth Ballet in 2020
Hamburg Ballet since 2023
REPERTORY
A Thorn Creature in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Telemachos in "Odyssey"
Photo © Silvano Ballone
He
Florian Pohl
Soloist
BORN
19.9.89 in Karlsruhe. German
EDUCATION
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHER
Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2009. Soloist since 2019
CREATIONS
A figure from the romantic novels Tatiana loves to read in "Tatiana"
and solos in
Einflüsse (Miljana Vracaric)
Rely on Trust (Florian Pohl)
I Giorni (Florian Pohl)
REPERTORY
The Man in the Shadowand Prince Siegfried in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Horvendel in "Hamlet"/"Hamlet 21"
Charles in "As You Like It"
Paris in "Romeo and Juliet"
The three wise men in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Ilya Afanasevich Shamrajev and The Star of the Revue in "The Seagull"
Stiva in "Anna Karenina"
The Wanderer, the Gondolier, a Dance Couple, Dionysos, the Hairdresser, the Guitar Player in "Death in Venice"
King Florestan XXIV and a Russian Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Balloon Man in "Liliom"
Monsieur Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
He in "Odyssee"
Prince Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Antigonus in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Birthday Dances
Saint Matthew Passion
HE CHOREGRAPHED
"Nobody Sees"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2012
"Rely on Trust"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"I Giorni"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"Embrace"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
"el la"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2018
Find further information about Florian Pohl here.
Calypso
Hayley Page
Corps de Ballet
BORN
29.3.94 in Sydney. Australian
EDUCATION
Lamont Dance Studio
Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Aryana Lamont, Tanya Pearson, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen, Carolina Borrajo
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2013
CREATIONS
A figure from the romantic novels Tatiana loves to read in "Tatiana"
and solos in
Winterreise
Poppy (Lennart Radtke)
I Giorni (Florian Pohl)
Bunker (Aleix Martinez)
Dogma (Aleix Martinez)
REPERTORY
La Barbarina in "Death in Venice"
Frau Konsul Stahlbaum in "The Nutcracker"
Cinderella's Mother in "A Cinderella Story"
The Queen and the Evening Star in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Queen Mother in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Calipso in "Odyssey"
Dolly in "Anna Karenina"
Tante Reed in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solo in
Broadway's Pavlova
SHE CHOREOGRAPHED
"De Voir"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
Find further information about Hayley Page here.
Pallas Athene
Xue Lin
Principal
BORN
9.11.91 in Beijing. Chinesin
EDUCATION
Beijing Dance Academy
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Yuanmei Cai, Kevin Haigen, Marianne Kruuse
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2011, Soloist since 2016, Principal since 2022
CREATIONS
The Ballerina Istomina as Cleopatra in "Tatiana"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Meine Vorstellung von der Wirklichkeit (Braulio Alvarez)
3x2 für M&M (Constant Vigier)
Mizaru – Kikazaru – Iwazaru (Miljana Vracaric)
Into this Wild Abyss (Braulio Alvarez)
Meant to Fly (Winnie Dias)
At Asyl-Um (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
REPERTORY
Odette, Princess Claire and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Rosalind and Emilia in "Romeo and Juliet"
Silvia in "Préludes CV"
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"
La Primavera in "Othello"
Moyna and Zulma in "Giselle"
Manon Lescaut and Olympia in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise, La Fille du Pharaon, The Chinese Bird and Pas de huit in "The Nutcracker"
The Ballerina, Tamara Karsavina in "Nijinsky"
Masha in "The Seagull"
Woman I in "Bernstein Dances"
Anna Karenina and Lidia Ivanovna in "Anna Karenina"
Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Princess Florine, The Rose and Aurora, the Dawn in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Pallas Athene in "Odyssey"
Pas de six in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Olga in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Amor and a Friend in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Princess Perdita in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Saint Matthew Passion
Messiah
The Song of the Earth
Turangalîla
Bach Suite 2
Nocturnes
Dialogue
Kinderszenen
Shall we dance?
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Broadway's Pavlova
At Midnight
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid" with the National Ballet of China in Wuhan, China
AWARD
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer Prize 2014
Find further information about Xue Lin here.
Nausicaa
Lormaigne Bockmühl
Corps de Ballet
BORN
25.10.2001 in Cavite, Philippines. Filipina
EDUCATION
ACTS Manila
School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Kevin Haigen, Raymond Hilbert, Chelo Gemina, Jun Saagundo, Stacey Denhamm, Gigi Hyatt, Leslie Hughes, Anna Urban
ENGAGEMENT
National Youth Ballet in 2021
Hamburg Ballet since 2023
REPERTORY
Nausicaa in "Odyssey"
photo: Silvano Ballone
Circe
Ana Torrequebrada
Soloist
BORN
3.5.2000 in Burgos, Spain. Spanish
EDUCATION
Escuela Profesional de Danza "Ana Laguna"
Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Ana González Barca, Juan Carlos Santamaría, Gigi Hyatt, Leslie Hughes, Ann Drower
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019, Soloist since 2023
REPERTORY
Marie, The Beautiful Girl from Granada and The Chinese Bird in "The Nutcracker"
Cupid's Blessing and the Moon in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Princess Claire in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Prudence Duvernoy in "Lady of the Camellias"
Circe in "Odyssey"
A Shepherdess in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Young Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
solos in
Broadway's Pavlova
Ghost Light
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Find further information about Ana Torrequebrada here.
The Sea
Yun-Su Park
Soloist
BORN
18.02.89 in Seoul. Korean
EDUCATION
Sun-Hwa Arts School, Seoul.
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Brian Yoo, Elena Selivanova, Kevin Haigen, Ingrid Glindemann, Marianne Kruuse, Christian Schön
EDUCATION
Hamburg Ballet since 2007, Soloist since 2018
CREATIONS
Beethoven Project I
The Rain (Miljana Vracaric)
Let's Keep it Black (Orkan Dann)
Happy Birthday (Orkan Dann)
My Dear Love (Orkan Dann)
Nobody Sees (Florian Pohl)
3x2 für M&M (Constant Vigier)
The Jealousy Theory (Eliot Worrell, Dale Rhodes)
Poppy (Lennart Radtke)
I Giorni (Florian Pohl)
Little Requiem (Aleix Martínez)
Oratio (Kristína Borbélyová)
From a "C-Utopia" (Lizhong Wang)
Countdown (Sasha Riva)
REPERTORY
La Fille du Pharaon and The Beautiful Girl from Granada in "The Nutcracker"
The Queen Mother and one of the Big Swan in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Isabella in "Romeo and Juliet"
Bianca in "Othello"
Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Cupid's Blessing and Mars in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
The Sea in "Odyssey"
The Queen of the Dryads and First Bridesmaid in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
Préludes CV
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
Messiah
The Nutcracker
Illusions – like Swan Lake
Shall we dance
Vaslav
Saint Matthew Passion
Nocturnes
Renku (Yuka Oishi und Orkan Dann)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
Find further information about Yun-Su Park here.
The Suitors / The War
Francesco Cortese
Corps de Ballet
BORN
7.11.2002 in Schio (Vicenza). Italian
EDUCATION
Domus Danza (Schio)
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Stacey Denham, Christian Schön, Anna Urban, Enrica Marcucci, Laura Nardi
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet 2021-2022
REPERTORY
Louis and Elmer in "Liliom"
Cupid's Blessing and a Thorn Creature in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
A Manon Lescaut's Admirer in "Lady of the Camellias"
A Suitor / The War in "Odyssey"
John Reed in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and soli in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Saint Matthew Passion
The Suitors / The War
Alessandro Frola
Principal
BORN
3.9.2000 in Parma, Italy. Italian
EDUCATION
Profession Dance Parma
Fomento Artístico Cordobés, Córdoba, Veracruz/Mexico
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Lucia Giuffrida, Francesco Frola, Adria Velásquez, Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Gigi Hyatt
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019, Soloist in 2022, Principal since 2023
CREATIONS
The Shadow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solo in
Peter and Igor
REPERTORY
Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Cupid's Blessing in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Wolf Beifeld in "Liliom"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Pas de deux in "A Cinderella Story"
The Man in the Shadow, Prince Siegfried and Prince Alexander in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Love in "Bernstein Dances"
Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Allan Gray in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker"
Armand in "Lady of the Camellias"
A Suitor / The War in "Odyssey"
Mr Brocklehurst in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
AWARD
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2023
Find further information about Alessandro Frola here.
Eurycleia
Ida Stempelmann
Corps de Ballet
BORN
29.5.2000 in Dusseldorf. German/Finn
EDUCATION
Ballet School Kaiserswerth
Royal Ballet School Antwerp
MAIN TEACHERS
Katrin Hansen, Kimmy Lauwens, Kevin Durwael, Genevieve Van Quaquebeke, Kevin Haigen, Raymond Hilbert
ENGAGEMENTS
National Youth Ballet 2018
Hamburg Ballet starting 2020/2021
CREATION
solo in
Beethoven Project II
REPERTORY
Nanina in "Lady of the Camellias"
One of the Big Swan in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Bronislava Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Eurycleia in "Odyssey"
Bertha Mason in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Find further information about Ida Stempelmann here.
Aikinoos
Lizhong Wang
Soloist
BORN
18.3.93 in Shanghai. Chinese
EDUCATION
Shanghai Dance School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Guo Min Wu, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2011. Soloist since 2019
CREATIONS
Renku (Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
#theStruggleisReal (Marcelino Libao)
Oratio (Kristína Borbélyová)
I Giorni (Florian Pohl)
REPERTORY
The Wild Warrior in "Othello"
Duse's Audience in "Duse"
Yevgeny Sergeyivich Dorn in "The Seagull"
A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
a wise man in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet 21"
An Indian Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Aikinoos in "Odyssey"
Espada in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Beethoven Project I
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Nocturnes
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Speechless"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"From a C-UTOPIA"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"Relative Theory"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
Find further information about Lizhong Wang here.
Anticlea
Laura Cazzaniga
Ballet Mistress
BORN
31.3.70 in Cassano d'Adda. Italian
EDUCATION
In Bergamo
Academie de Danse Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo.
The School of The Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Marika Besobrasova, Truman Finney
ENGAGEMENET
The Hamburg Ballet since 1988, Soloist in 1993,
Principal in 1998. Ballet Mistress since 2008
CREATIONS
Cinderella's Mother and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
The Sea in "Odyssey"
Revue Star in "The Seagull"
Geruth in "Hamlet" (1997, new version)
Pas de deux "Sheherazade III" (Easter Concert 1999, Munich)
Laura in "Préludes CV"
Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
Orgeluse in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Silver Fairy in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
and solos in
Time after Time from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
REPERTORY
Lykainion in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Olympia and Prudence in "Lady of the Camellias"
Penelope in "Odyssey"
Diana in "Sylvia"
Cinderella's Mother and a Stepsister in "A Cinderella Story"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Dulcinea in "Don Quixote"
Bianca in "Othello"
Bäsle and The Music in "Windows on MOZART"
The Good Fairy and The Queen in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Lady Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Olivia in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
The Queen Mother in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Myrtha in "Giselle"
Louise, Mrs. Stahlbaum, "La Fille du Pharaon" and Esmeralda and the Clowns" in "The Nutcracker"
Tamara Karsavina in "Nijinsky"
Ygerne in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Aase in "Peer Gynt"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina in "The Seagull"
Celia in "As You Like It"
Elizabeth in "Préludes CV"
Anticlea in "Odyssey"
Gamzatti and Hindu Dance in "La Bayadère" (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
The Old Madge, a witchin "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Madame Larina in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Veronica in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
and solos in
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Requiem
Kinderszenen
Trilogy M.R.: Secrets
Spring and Fall
Bernstein Dances
Vaslav
Le Sacre
Getting Closer
Bach-Suite 3
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Waltz
(Frederick Ashton after Isadora Duncan)
Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
Triple Self (Petr Zuska)
Fandango and Sinfonia Concertante (Lar Lubovitch)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
A la Françaix (George Balanchine)
Jewels – Emeralds (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Cesena, Vicenza, Legnago, Munich and Moscow.
She has been coaching the candidates of the Prix de Lausanne 2008
SHE STAGED NEUMEIER'S BALLETS FOR
The Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris: "Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler", the Norwegian National Ballet and the Pittsburg Ballet Theatre: "A Streetcar Named Desire", the Het National Ballet: "Sylvia", the National Ballet of Canada: "Nijinsky"
AWARDS
Half final of the "Prix de Lausanne" and Silver Medal in the "Concorso di Danza Viotti"
Conductor
Markus Lehtinen
Conductor
Markus Lehtinen absolvierte ein Klavier- und Dirigentenstudium an der Sibelius-Akademie in Helsinki. Zudem studierte er Komposition bei Aulis Sallinen und Einojuhani Rautavaara. 1988 wurde er an die Königliche Oper in Kopenhagen verpflichtet, der er bis 1993 angehörte. Er war Chefdirigent des Jyväskylä Sinfonieorchesters sowie Gastdirigent des Malmö Sinfonieorchesters. 1993 debütierte er an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, weitere Engagements in Deutschland waren unter anderem an der Deutschen Oper Berlin und an der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Seit 2004 hat Markus Lehtinen eine Professur an der Sibelius-Akademie.
Baritone
Georgios Iatrou
Baritone
Georgios Iatrou was born in Thessaloniki/Greece. He's one of the most promising and versatile greek singers. His repertoire varies from baroque to modern music and from opera to Lied, chanson and oratorio. He has performed in many theaters a.o. Hamburg Staatsoper, Cologne Opera, Aalto Theater Essen, Grand Theater Avignon, Greek National Opera, Toronto Opera, Theater Bonn, Olympia Music Theater and Theater Dortmund and halls a.o. Muziekgebow Amsterdam, National Concert Hall Ireland, Philharmonie Essen, Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Megaron of Thessaloniki. He has worked with important directors a.o. Graham Vick, Laurent Pelly, Lotte De Beer, Dietrich W. Hilsdorf, Philip Stölzl, Frank Hilbrich and important conductors a.o. Giacomo Sagripanti, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Manlio Benzi, Matteo Beltrami, Tomáš Netopil, Sébastien Rouland. He participated in important opera, theater and performance festivals a.o. Romaeuropa, Holland Festival, Festival de Marseilles, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Bachfest Leipzig.
At the age of five he received piano and cello lessons. At the age of 21 he got his first singing lessons at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki. In 2010 he was accepted in the Music University of Cologne (Prof. Mario Hoff). He completed his masters at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf (Prof. Konrad Jarnot). His current coaches are Margreet Honig, Jeremy Silver and Caroline Merz. Georgios also studied Molecular Biology at the Demokritus University of Greece.
As a member of the soloist ensemble at the Aalto Theater of Essen, Georgios performed the parts of a.o. Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Valentin (Faust), Schaunard (La Bohème), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Kostandis (The Greek Passion), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Marullo (Rigoletto) and Farfarello/Herold (L'Amour des trois oranges).
He guested as Marcello (La Bohème) and Dr. Falke at the Greek National Opera, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the Nouvelle Opera Fribourg in Switzerland, Eugene Onegin at Betty Oliphant Theater in Toronto Canada, Prometheus by C.Orff at the young artists festival of Bayreuth, Schaunard (La Bohème) at the Theater of Bonn, Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) at the Teatro Poliziano in Italy, Daniel (Anna Nicole) at the Theater of Dortmund,, Lehrbube (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) at the Opera of Cologne, Albert Herring, Deputato (Don Carlos) and Tancredi (Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda) at the Theater of Aachen, Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) at the Musikhochschule Köln, Frank Maurrant (Street Scene) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule etc.
He has done numerous world premiers of contemporary works a.o. Prometheus und Jupiter in "Prometheus Unbound" by F. Schwenk , Pavlos in "The Death of Anthony" by H. Goyos , Daniel in "Anna Nicole" von Mark-Anthony Turnage, Strella von M. Paraskakis, Jesus in "Christi Kreuz vor Augen" von E. Eckert, He in "The Fall of the House of Commons" by O. Papaioannou.
In the summer of 2011 he sang at the Young artists festival of Bayreuth. The WDR-radio produced with him and Amina Taikenova Lieder by Hanns Eisler. In 2014 he won the 1st prize at the "Schmolz und Bickenbach" competition. He also won one of the additional prizes in the "Nei Stemmen" international singing competition in Luxemburg and in 2016 he won the song prize at the "Antonio Bertolini” international contest in Milano. In 2017 he won the best interpretation prize at the Riccardo Zandonai competition in Italy and in 2019 the 3rd Prize. He did his first CD participation at the "Jubiläums-CD für Staatskanzlei" with songs by R.Schumann. He has given concerts in many halls in Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Israel and Greece.
He took part in masterclasses with Jorma Hynninen, Margreet Honig, Cheryl Studer, Daphne Evangelatos, Edda Moser, Jeannet Pilou, Enza Ferrari, Laurent Pillot. He is a scholar of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung , DAAD and Deutschlandstipendium.
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Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
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, Adam Fischer 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 and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. 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 toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. 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 by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
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
