GÜRZENICH ORCHESTER KÖLN – DIE SOLDATEN 1/3

KÖLN PHILHARMONIE

Ensemble and Guests of the Opera Cologne
Calixto Bieito, direction
Paul Jeukendrup, technical
Rustam Samedov, choirmaster
Wesener gallery owner, Pavel Daniluk
Marie his daughter, Emily Hindrichs
Charlotte his daughter, Judith Thielsen
Wesener’s mother, Kismara Pezzatti
Stolzius, Leigh Melrose
Stolzius’s mother, Dalia Schaechter
Obrist, Miroslav Stricevic
Desportes, Martin Koch
Pirzel, John Heuzenroeder
Eisenhardt, Oliver Zwarg
Haudy, Miljenko Turk
Mary, Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger
Countess de la Roche, Sharon Kempton
The young earl, his son, Alexander Kaimbacher

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
François-Xavier Roth, conductor

BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN
»The Soldiers« (1957-65) Opera in four acts based on the play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Cologne made musical history in 1965 with the premiere of Zimmermann’s »total theatre«. François-Xavier Roth and Calixto Bieito translate this dystopia about a brutalised society alienated from the principles of ethics and humanity into a concentrated version for the concert hall.