DIE SOLDATEN with GÜRZENICHORCHESTER KÖLN – FEBRUARY 2022

KÖLN, Philharmonie
PARIS, Philharmonie
HAMBURG, Elbphilharmonie

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.

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

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

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