Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | La clemenza di Tito
Wed, May 01, 2024, 5.00 pm - 7.30 pm
Inszenierung
Jetske Mijnssen
Director
Birthplace:
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Studies:
Dutch literature and poetics at the University of Amsterdam
Directing at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Prizes:
Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique for "Orfeo" at the Opera national de Lorraine in Nancy
Important productions:
Königskinder (Semperoper Dresden), La traviata (Konzert Theater Bern), Almira (Hamburg State Opera), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Theater Essen), Le Cid (Saarländisches Staatstheater), Madama Butterfly (Theater Basel), Don Pasquale (Komische Oper Berlin), L'enfant et les sortilèges (Komische Oper Berlin), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Zuid), Orfeo (Opera national de Lorraine in Nancy and Opéra national de Bordeaux), Idomeneo (Zurich Opera House), Haydn's Orlando paladino (Zurich Opera House), Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (Zurich Opera House), Eugene Onegin (Graz Opera), Don Carlo (Graz Opera), Dialogues des Carmélites (Zurich Opera House), L'Orfeo and La Clemenzia di Tito (Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen), Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux (Amsterdam, Naples, Valencia), Kleider machen Leute (Prague State Opera), Rameau's Platée (Zurich Opera House), et al.
Find further information about Jetske Mijnssen here.
photo: Keke Keukelaar
Musikalische Leitung
Adam Fischer
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Budapest, Hungary
Studies:
Composition and conducting in Budapest as well as in Vienna with the legendary Hans Swarowsky
Prizes:
International Classical Music Award for lifetime achievement (2022), Wolf Prize in Music for his outstanding artistic achievements and his humanitarian commitment (2018), International Classical Music Award for the complete recording of all Mozart symphonies (2015), two Echo Klassik-Awards for the recordings of all Joseph Haydn symphonies (2006 and 2008), "Conductor of the Year" for his production "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Opernwelt-Magazin, 2002), two Grand Prix du Disque awards (1980 and 1987), et al.
Adam Fischer is an honorary member of the Wiener Staatsoper and the Musikverein für Steiermark in Graz. He is the bearer of the Order of Dannebrog awarded by the Danish Queen and was awarded the title of Honorary Professor by order of the Austrian Federal President.
Repertoire:
Extensive German and Italian opera repertoire
Career stages:
Founder and Artistic Director of the Budapest Wagner Days (since 2008), Principal Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker (since 2015) and Artistic Advisor of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Chief Conductor of the Danish Chamber Orchestra (since 1998), Founder of the Haydn Days in Eisenstadt (founded in 1987) and founder as well as honorary conductor of the Haydn Philharmonie, Artistic director of the Budapest Opera (2007 to 2010), general music director in Mannheim (2000-2005), Kassel (1987 to 1992), Freiburg (1981 to 1983), as well as after his studies répétiteur and conductor in Graz, Helsinki, Karlsruhe and Munich
Stages:
Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Zürich, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayreuther Festspiele, Musikverein Wien, New York Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall London, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Symphoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, et al.
Find further information about Adam Fischer here.
photo: Szilvia Csibi (Mupa Budapest)
Bühnenbild und Kostüme
Ben Baur
Stage Design and Costumes
Ben Baur (*1982) comes from Reinheim in southern Hesse and studied at the Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Art. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, where he subsequently also staged Leoš Janáček's Katja Kabanowa and Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. This was followed by Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni and Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen. He has staged Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Verdi's Il trovatore at the Graz Opera, Vincenzo Bellini's Il pirata and Charles Gounod's Faust at the Theater St.Gallen, Giacomo Puccini's La bohème at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and August Enna's Cleopatra at the Danish National Opera.
His work as a stage and costume designer has taken him to many of Europe's leading theaters and opera houses, including. Maxim Gorki Theater and Deutsches Theater Berlin, Volkstheater Munich, the Schauspielhäuser in Bochum, Zurich and Frankfurt, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opernhaus Zürich, Oper Köln, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy and Opéra royal du château de Versailles, National Opera Amsterdam, Staatsoper Hamburg, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London and Burgtheater Wien.
Works for Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen and the Staatstheater Nuremberg as well as again for the Opera House Zurich and the National Opera Amsterdam are in planning.
Own direction works are in preparation for the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen as well as again in Graz and Braunschweig.
photo: Sven Serkis
Licht
Bernd Purkrabek
Lighting Designer
Birthplace:
Austria
Studies:
Lighting design at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich
Important productions:
“Caruso a Cuba” (Dutch National Opera, 2018), “Maria Stuarda” (Theater an der Wien, 2018), “Saul and Jephtha” (Opéra National de Paris/Opéra Bastille, 2018), “Beatrice Cenci” (Bregenzer Festspiele/Festspielhaus, 2018), “Kontrapunkt.” (Oper Graz, 2017), “Der Ferne Klang” (Oper Graz, 2015), “Peter Grimes” (Theater an der Wien, 2015), “Charodeyka” (Theater an der Wien, 2014), “Lohengrin” (Oper Graz, 2013), “Suster Bertken & Troparion” (Holland Festival, 2013), “Lazarus“ (Theater an der Wien, 2013), “La fanciulla del West” (Oper Frankfurt, 2013), “Jenufa” (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2012), “Macbeth” (Grand Théâtre de Genève, 2011), “I verspri siciliani” (Dutch National Opera & Ballet, 2010), “Der Prinz von Homburg” (Theater an der Wien, 2009)
Career stages:
International Lighting Designer for dance, theater and opera (since 2011)
Cooperations:
Christof Loy, Claus Guth, Florentine Klepper, Pierre Audi, Johannes Erath, Stefan Herheim, Mariame Clément, Nicola Raab, Johannes Erath, Frank Hilbrich, Jetske Mijnssen, Silvia Costa et al.
Find further information about Bernd Purkrabek here.
Dramaturgie
Janina Zell
Geburtsort:
Ehringshausen, Deutschland
Studium:
Gesang und Musikwissenschaften mit der Studienrichtung Konzert- und Musiktheaterdramaturgie an der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen
Auszeichnungen:
Folkwang Preis für ihre Masterarbeit über die Inszenierung von Richard Wagners „Der Ring des Nibelungen“ am Aalto-Theater Essen (2014), Stipendiatin der „Akademie Musiktheater heute“ der Deutsche Bank Stiftung (2014-2016)
Bezug zur Staatsoper:
Dramaturgin der Staatsoper Hamburg und des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg seit 2015
Stationen:
Hospitanzen beim Klavier-Festival Ruhr, dem Konzerthaus Dortmund und der Oper Frankfurt, Dramaturgin für Oper, Ballett und Konzert am Aalto-Theater Essen (2013-2015)
Zusammenarbeit:
Calixto Bieito, Philipp Stölzl, Mariame Clément, Vera Nemirova, Andreas Kriegenburg, Toshio Hosokawa, Jan Bosse, u. a.
Dramaturgie
Angela Beuerle
Dramaturge
Origin:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Musicology, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Hamburg; doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on medieval language theory
Career stages:
Freelance dramaturge for music theatre (since 2014), teaching at the theatre academy of the HfMT Hamburg (since 2014), dramaturge for music theatre at Staatstheater Stuttgart (2006-2014), freelance artistic participation at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Ruhrtriennale (until 2006); publishes regularly in the fields of opera, concert, music and literature
Cooperations:
Peter Konwitschny, La fura dels baus, Joachim Schlömer, Igor Bauersima, Yona Kim, Thomas Bischoff, Markus Dietz, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Moses, Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito, Lydia Steier, Philipp Himmelmann, u. a.
Tito
Bernard Richter
Birthplace:
Switzerland
Studies:
Opera Studio Biel
Prizes:
Finalist at the Concours International de Paris 2001
Important parts:
Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Lurciano (Ariodante), Grimoaldo (Rodelinda), Belfiore (La finta Giardiniera), Idomeneo (Idomeneo), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Hylas (Les Troyens), Froh (Das Rheingold), Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des carmélites), Castor (Castor et Pollux), Des Grieux (Manon), Camille de Rossillon (Die lustige Witwe), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Mitridate (Mitridate), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatr Wielki Warsaw, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra National de Paris, Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, Theater an der Wien, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Laurent Pelly, Christof Loy, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Keith Warner, Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau, Jean-Marie Villégier, Christophe Honoré, Zabou Breitman and Kasper Holten, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Philippe Jordan, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Adam Fischer, Kent Nagano, Marc Minkowski, Jeffrey Tate, Ivor Bolton, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Sir Neville Marriner, Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Schneider, Iván Fischer, William Christie and Raphaël Pichon, et al.
photo: Kiran West
Sesto
Michèle Losier
Mezzosoprano
Birthplace:
Montréal, Canada
Studies:
Graduate of McGill University, member of the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera, the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Montréal and the Juilliard Opera Center in New York.
Fellowships from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Sylva-Gelber Foundation
Prizes:
Queen Elisabeth Competition, The Metropolitan Opera Audition, First Prize winner at the Journées de la Musique Française, Canadian Music Competition and the Mélodie Française category of the Chant de Marmande International Competition in France
Important parts:
Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Carmen (Carmen), Siébel (Faust), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Ascagne (Les Troyens), Judith (Duke Bluebeard's Castle), Charlotte (Werther), Jane Seymour (Anna Bolena), Idamante (Idomeneo), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), et al.
Stages:
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Opéra Bastille, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Teatro alla Scalla, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Salzburg Festival, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Dmitri Tcherniakov, Terry Gilliams, Damiano Michieletto, Matthias Hartmann, Romain Gilbert, André Heller-Lopes, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Louis Langrée, Patrick Fourmilier, Emmanuel Plasson, Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rhorer, Stephane Denève, Kent Nagano, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir Andrew Davis, François-Xavier Bilger, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicola Luisetti, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evelino Pido, Placido Domingo, James Conlon, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simone Young, et al.
photo: Isabele Francaix
Annio
Kangmin Justin Kim
Countertenor
Birthplace:
Born in Masan, South Korea; raised in Hoffman Estates, Chicago, U.S.
French citizen
Studies:
Northwestern University in Evanston, Royal Academy of Music, London
Prizes:
Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year Award from Dallas Opera, 2023
Important parts:
Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Idamante (Idomeneo), Sesto and Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Hyacinthus (Apollo et Hyacinthus), Romeo (Giulietta e Romeo), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Ruggiero (Alcina), Ruggiero (Orlando furioso), Barzane (Arsilda), Hänsel und Knusperhexe (Hansel and Gretel), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Oreste (La Belle Hélène), Song Liling (M. Butterfly)
Stages:
Royal Opera House London, Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro San Carlo, Glyndebourne, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Paris Opéra Comique and Théâtre du Châtelet
Cooperations with directors:
Sam Brown, Davide Livermore, David McVicar, Jossie Wieler, Sergio Morabito
Cooperations with conductors:
Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie, Diego Fasolis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Jaroussky, Andrea Marcon, Mark Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon, Emmanuel Villaume, Lorenzo Viotti, Simone Young
photo: Justin Barbin
Servilia
Marlene Metzger
Soprano
Berlin soprano Marlene Metzger grew up in a musical household and studied her Bachelor's degree at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Supported by the DAAD scholarship, she moved to Copenhagen for her Master's degree, where she has been part of the Young Artist Program at the Royal Danish Opera since this season.
This season, she has taken on roles such as Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito, First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Children's opera productions with the Taschenoper Lübeck have taken her to the Lucerne Festival, the Bremen Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel.
An important part of her musical work is her collaboration with Lars Ulrik Mortensen and the baroque ensemble Concerto Copenhagen.
Find further information about Marlene Metzger here.
Vitellia
Tara Erraught
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Dundalk, Ireland
Studies:
Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, singing with Veronica Dunne
2008 - 2018 Member of the opera studio and ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera
Important parts:
Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Maria Stuarda (title role), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Angelina (Cenerentola), Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Nicklausse (Tales of Hoffmann), Hansel (Hänsel und Gretel), Iphigenie (Iphigenie en Tauride), Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Susanna (Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Annius (Clemenza di Tito), Octavian (Rosenkavalier), et al.
Stages:
Opéra de Paris, Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden, Irish National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Washington National Opera, Theater an der Wien, Glyndebourne Festival and at the BBC Proms, Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Liceu Barcelona, Metropolitan Opera New York, Munich Opera Festival, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Barrie Kosky, Axel Ranisch, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Richard Jones, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Philippe Jordan, Herbert Blomstedt, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alexander Soddy, Ivor Bolton, et al.
Publio
Han Kim
Bass
Birthplace:
Pohang, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor, Seoul National University with Kwangchul Youn; Master Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner; Soloist’s Diploma Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner
Master class:
with Ann Murray, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019), with David Selig, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2023/24 season
Was Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera 2021/22 and 2022/23
Important parts:
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Il conte Rodolfo (La sonambula), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Colline (La Bohème), Zuniga (Carmen)
Stages:
Theater Heidelberg
Cooperation with directors:
Sonja Trebes
Cooperation with conductors:
Dietger Holm
photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin
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
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