Name: Die tote Stadt
Start: 2020-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: La Monnaie

Admin

Organization

Tenor

Roberto Saccà

Paul

Singer

Marlis Petersen

Marietta

Baritone

Georg Nigl

Frank

Mezzo-soprano

Bernadetta Grabias

Brigitta

Nikolay Borchev

Fritz

Mateusz Zajdel

Count Albert

Conductor

Lothar Koenigs

Stage director

Mariusz Treliński

Set designer

Boris Kudlička

Costume designer

Marek Adamski

Video designer

Bartek Macias

Lighting designer

Marc Heinz

Choreographer

Tomasz Jan Wygoda

Chorus master

Alberto Moro

Dramaturge

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk

Florian Hoffmann

Victorin

Silent

Gaston

Lilly Jørstad

Lucienne

Soprano

Marie

Maria Stasiak

Juliette

La Monnaie/De Munt

Orchestra

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

German

Die tote Stadt -  (The Dead City)

Brussels

Belgium

La Monnaie

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Public

The Dead City

French

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Die tote Stadt Korngold

Performing ‘Die tote Stadt’ in a coronaproof way, is that even possible? For our newest production, Korngold’s most luscious score was re-orchestrated and ever so slightly reduced cut by composer Leonard Eröd. In this video interview, conductor Lothar Koenigs explains why that doesn’t diminish the overwhelming Korngold sound at all.

Die tote Stadt | Lothar Koenigs - “Everything is there”

A restrained psychological thriller, a muted portrait of a city, and one of the masterpieces of Belgian Symbolism: in Bruges-la-Morte, a gloomy Venice of the North reflects the grieving process of a man who, following the death of his wife, sinks into a mood of obsession and delusion. The operatic adaptation of the novel was a huge hit for 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose ecstatic, at times exuberant music prefigured his later career as a film composer. The work has inspired the director Mariusz Treliński to create a production in which the lines between reality and the imaginary are constantly blurred, while the La Monnaie Symphony orchestra reaps the benefits of conductor Lothar Koenigs’ unerring feeling for the late-Romantic repertoire.

To celebrate the centenary of Die tote Stadt in safe conditions, we have had to radically adapt the originally announced production. La Monnaie and Theater an der Wien ordered a complete reorchestration of the piece for 57 musicians, and the runtime was reduced to under two hours, as to avoid the need for an intermission. The artistic team is working on an adapted staging.

English

The Dead City by Korngold, Fri 13 Nov 2020, From (2020/2020), Directed by Mariusz Treliński,, Conductor Lothar Koenigs, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

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