Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Wed, Oct. 11, 2023, 7.30 pm - 10.10 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Stephanie Childress
Musical Direction
Stephanie Childress is making her mark as a conductor of remarkable skill and has been likened to “other notable young conductors of the past such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Simon Rattle” (Varsity). Her musicianship and command of a broad scope of repertoire has led to engagements with symphony orchestras and opera houses across the international stage.
Autumn of the 2022/23 season began with her Glyndebourne Festival debut conducting The Marriage of Figaro at home in Lewes and on tour. Alongside the opera production, Childress also conducted the Glydnebourne Festival orchestra and chorus for performances of Mozart’s Requiem.
Childress also has strong connections to the Opera de Paris and in Spring 2023 she joins Carlo Rizzi as assistant conductor for Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. She has been an assistant conductor at the English National Opera and during the summer of 2021 she joined the music staff at Glyndebourne Festival to assist on Il Turco in Italia and conduct the Glyndebourne Chorus for Luisa Miller. Previously, she conducted Jeremy Sams’ The Enchanted Island with the British Youth Opera, Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at St John’s College (Cambridge), Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement for the Cambridge University Opera Society, and the world premiere of Anna Semple’s The Next Station is Green Park at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Returning to St Louis to continue her position as Assistant Conductor of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, a role she has held since 2020, Childress will conduct New Years Eve concerts, subscription weeks and tour with the orchestra across Europe. In addition, she will continue her duties as Music Director of the St Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.
The 2022/23 season also includes debuts with Orchestre National de’ille de France, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and New World Symphony Orchestra as well as returns to North Carolina Symphony and Montpellier following the success of debuts last season.
Childress was awarded the 2nd prize of the inaugural conducting competition, La Maestra in 2020 and since then has conducted some of the top orchestras in France including Orchestre de Paris, Paris Mozart Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Opera et Orchestre National de Montpellier. In previous seasons she has also made several exciting appearances with UK orchestras, including conducting debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.
Childress has attended masterclasses with esteemed conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Paavo Järvi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet and Johannes Schlaefli and most recently took part in the Conducting Académie of the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
A passionate advocate of amplifying the role of music within today’s world, Childress has previously undertaken artistic residence at the Villa Albertine, a network for arts and ideas spanning France and the United States. As part of her residence, she assisted Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as well as observing rehearsals with the Atlanta, LA and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. As of 2022, she is also a Young Leader of the Franco-British Young Leaders’ Program, a scheme created by the Franco-British Council to further cooperation across both sides of the Channel. Stephanie is an active supporter of the Tri-borough Music Hub, an award-winning organisation for music education. She has taken part in a number of programmes with the association, including leading the junior string ensemble at an ‘Artists for Inclusivity’ event and speaking at the Youth Music Conference 2020 held at the Royal College of Music. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
photo: Karolina Heller
Bassa Selim
Burghart Klaußner
Actor
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Studies:
German and theatre at the Freie Universität Berlin,
drama course at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule in Berlin
Prizes:
Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2018 in the category Bestes Sachhörbuch für “Fritz Bauer. Sein Leben, sein Denken, sein Wirken” (2018), Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2016 in the category Bestes Sachhörbuch für Neil MacGregor “Deutschland. Erinnerungen einer Nation.” (2016), Preis der deutschen Filmkritik as Best Actor in “Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer” (2016), Bayerischer Filmpreis 2015 as Best Actor for the leading role in“Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer” (2016), Günther Rohrbach Filmpreis as Best Actor for his leading role as the uncompromising chief public prosecutor in “Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer” (2015), Deutscher Filmpreis, nomination in the category Best Supporting Actor in “Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert” (2015), Theaterpreis Der Faust as the Best Leading Actor in “Tod eines Handlungsreisenden” (2012), Rolf-Mares-Preis der Hamburger Theater for “Tod eines Handlungsreisenden” at the St. Pauli Theater (2012), Deutscher Hörbuchpreis in the category Best Interpreter for Ferdinand von Schirach’s “Schuld” (2011), Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (Best Actor) for his role in “Das weiße Band” (2010), Deutscher Filmpreis (Best Leading Actor) for his acting performance in “Das weiße Band” (2010), nominated for Goldene Kamera (Best German Actor) for “Der Novembermann” (2008), Goldener Leopard in Locarno (Best Actor) in “Der Mann von der Botschaft” (2006), nominated for Deutscher Filmpreis (Best Supporting Actor) for his acting performance in “Requiem” (2006), Deutscher Filmpreis (Best Supporting Actor) in “Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei” (2005)
Important parts/works:
Theater: “Reich des Todes” by Rainald Goetz (2020, premiere in Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg), “Galilei” by Brecht (2018, Düsseldorf), Dorfrichter Adam in “Der zerbrochene Krug” by Kleist (Dresden), Philipp in “Don Carlos” (Düsseldorf), “Heisenberg” by Simon Stephens (seit 2016, Düsseldorf), Willy Loman in “Tod eines Handlungsreisenden” by Arthur Millers (2012, St. Pauli Theater Hamburg / Ruhrfestspiele), “Pinkville” (1971, Berlin; Direction: George Tabori)
TV & Cinema: Brecht in “Brecht” (ARD Zeitpanorama, Direction: Heinrich Breloer), “Ziemlich weit weg” (1980, Direction: Dietrich Schubert), “Kinderspiele” (Direction: Wolfgang Becker) “Crazy” (Direction: Hans-Christian Schmid), “Requiem” (Direction: Hans-Christian Schmid), “Good Bye, Lenin!” (Direction: Wolfgang Becker), “Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei” (Direction: Hans Weingartner), “Der Vorleser” (Direction: Stephen Daldry), “Bridge of Spies” (Direction: Steven Spielberg), “Das weiße Band” (Direction: Michael Haneke), “Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer” (Direction, Regie: Lars Kraume), pedagogue Kurt Hahn in “The Crown” (Netflix series, Direction: Stephen Daldry)
Book: first novel “Vor dem Anfang” (Publication 2018, Kiepenheuer und Witsch)
Direction works:
“Der Gott des Gemetzels” by Yasmina Rezas (premiere in 2007, Bochum), “Die Ziege oder Wer ist Sylvia?” by Edward Albees (2006, Hamburger Kammerspiele)
Stages:
Nearly all big theatres in Germany, e.g. Düsseldorf, Burg- und Akademietheater; Schwerpunkte bilden Hamburg, Zurich, Bochum and Dresden
photo: Max Parovsky
Konstanze
Sofia Fomina
Soprano
Studies:
Orlovsky Music College and the Gnesin Academy of Music, Moscow
Prizes:
Grant by the Wagner Association in Bayreuth (2010)
Important parts:
Micaela (Carmen), Marzelline (Fidelio), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Amina (La Sonnambula), Elvira (I Puritani), Ludmila (Ruslan and Ludmila), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Konstanze/Blonde (Entführung aus dem Serail), Olympia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Musetta (La bohème), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marie (La fille du regiment), Jemmy (Guillaume Tell), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Gilda (Rigoletto), Nanetta (Falstaff), et al.
Stages:
Opéra de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Frankfurt Opera, , Hungarian National Opera, Royal Opera House, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Seattle Opera, Theater an der Wien, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, Norwegian opera, Seattle Opera, Festspiele Baden-Baden, Theater an der Wien, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Damiano Michieletto, Laurent Pelly, Johannes Erath, Barbe&Doucet
Cooperations with conductors:
Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi , Sir Antonio Pappano, Jakub Hrusa, Edward Gardner, Daniel Oren, Ivor Bolton, et al.
photo: Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi & Olga Martinez
Blonde
Narea Son
Soprano
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University, master's degree opera and concert exam opera at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg
Master class:
with Edita Gruberová, Jaume Aragall, Cheryl Studer, Mariella Devia, Thomas Quastoff, Edda Moser, Brigitte Fassbaender und Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall in New York with Live Stream by Arte TV, et al.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera 2016/17 and 2017/18
Important parts:
Adele (Die Fledermaus), Pamina (Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht!, Neufassung der Zauberflöte von J. Harneit), Marzelline (Fidelio), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Katze Ivanka ( U.A. Katze Ivanka ), Ljusja (Moskau, Tscherjomuschki ), Marthe, Sorge, Seliger Knabe und Sopran Solo ( Szenen aus Goethes Faust), Javotte (Manon), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Oberto (Alcina), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Theater Bremen, Sejong Center (Seoul Metropolitan Opera), Shanghai Grand Theater, Geumho-Konzerthalle, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Philipp Stölzl, Georges Delnon, Vera Nemirova, David Bösch, BARBE&DOUCET et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Alexander Joel, Johannes Fritzsch, Massimo Zanetti, Christopher Moulds, Renato Palumbo, Axel Kober, Jonathan Darlington, et al.
photo: Sangdon Lee
Belmonte
Oleksiy Palchykov
Tenor
Birthplace:
Kiev, Ukraine
Studies:
At the Vocal Faculty of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris
Prizes:
Grand Prix of the XVI International Lydia Abramova Vocal Student’s Competition “Bella voce” in Moscow, special prize of the Jury at the International Vocal Competition “Debut” in Wiekersheim, Prix Lyrique du Carpeaux, Prix Lyrique de L'AROP, finalist of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2017/18
Important parts:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Alfredo (La Traviata), Fenton (Falstaff), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Paris (La belle Hélène), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Cassio (Otello), Narraboth (Salome), Beppe (Pagliacci), Sinowi (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Lykow (The Tsar’s Bride), Gritsko (Sorochintsi Fair), Kudryash (Katia Kabanova), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
The Lyon Opera house, Opera Bastille, Opera Garnier, Athénée-Théâtre, Opernhaus Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Edinburg International Festival, Garsington Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Champs Elysees Theatre, National Opera of Monpellier, National Opera of Ukraine, M. Dzhalil Tatar Academic State Opera, Chaliapin Festival, Le Théâtre du Léman, Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker,
Renaud Doucet/André Barbe, Mariame Clement, William Kentridge, Christophe Perton, Àlex Ollé, Laurent Pelly, Olivier Py, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nello Santi, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Visiliy Petrenko, Michael Schønwandt, Riccardo Frizza, Kazushi Ono, Paolo Carignani, Alessandro De Marchi, Daniele Callegari, Henrik Nánási, Vakclav Luks, et al.
Find further information about Oleksiy Palchykov here.
photo: Antonia Sievierova
Pedrillo
Daniel Kluge
Tenor
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Klaus Dieter Kern
Master classes:
with Roman Trekel, Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as well as master classes for „Liedgesang“ with Markus Hadulla, Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Important parts:
Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Abdallo (Nabucco), Remendado (Carmen), Flavio (Norma), Knappe und 1. Gralsritter (Parsifal), Kilian (Freischütz), Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), Spoletta (Tosca), Schreiber (Chowanschtschina), Jacquino (Fidelio), Ein Soldat (Reigen), Chick (Der Schaum der Tage), Borsa (Rigoletto), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Orpheus (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu drei Orangen), Balakin (Charodeyka), Max (Der Freischütz), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Vierter Jude (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Wien, Volksoper Wien, Stadttheater Bern, Aalto-Theater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opéra National de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Kirill Serebrennikov, Nicola Hümpel , Tobias Hoheisel, Imogen Kogge, Armin Petras, Demis Volpi, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sylvain Cambreling, Georg Fritzsch, Roland Kluttig, Giacomo Sagripanti, Johannes Witt, Hans Christoph Bünger, Kirill Karabits, Willem Wentzel, Alejo Pérez, Christopher Schmitz, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Osmin
Peter Kellner
Bass
Geburtsort:
Krompachy, Slowakische Republik
Studium:
Am Konservatorium Košice bei M. Adamenko, am Mozarteum Salzburg bei B. Bakow, Bachelorstudium bei A. Sol an der Kunstuniversität Graz
Auszeichnungen:
Independent Opera Fellowship der Wigmore Hall Song Competition, 2. Preis und Publikumspreis des Internationalen Mozartwettbewerbs Salzburg 2018, erster Preis des Internationalen Wettbewerbs Feruccio Tagliavini in Deutschlandsberg
Wichtige Partien:
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Colline (La Bohème), Nachtwächter (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Colline (La Bohème), Leporello/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Brander (La Damnation de Faust), Panthée (Les Troyens), Ratcliffe (Billy Budd), Colas (Bastien und Bastienne), Dulcamara (Elisir d‘ amore), Bruder Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), König von Schottland (Ariodante), Theseus (Midsummer Night’s Dream) u. a.
Bühnen:
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Volksoper Wien, Glyndebourne Festival, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseur*innen:
Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Krzysztof Warlikowski
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigent*innen:
Philippe Jordan, Sir Antonio Pappano, Vasily Petrenko, Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Marco Armiliato, Ivor Bolton, Friedrich Haider, Christophe Rousset, u. a.
photo: Peter Kellner
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
Chor
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
The chorus members appear on stage at the Hamburg State Opera in a different role almost every night. From one day to the next, they might be sailors, pilgrims or conspirators, then courtiers, hunters, the deranged or the imprisoned. In the role of crusaders in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata they travel to Jerusalem, other nights they are invited to Madama Butterfly's marriage or acclaim Prince Igor. The ladies and gentlemen of the opera chorus demonstrate their artistic prowess, their flexibility, and their love of the stage in every performance.
With a membership around 70, the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera has been one of the world’s best opera choruses for many years. The varied repertoire – almost always in the original language – is multifaceted and includes baroque operas and dramatic operas, major works by Verdi and Wagner as well as contemporary pieces. At the start of the 2013/14 season, Eberhard Friedrich took over the post of Chorus Master.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
