Leonard Bernstein: Candide

Matthew Newlin, Candide
Nikola Hillebrand, Cunegonde
James Newby Maximilian
Ben McAteer, Dr. Pangloss
Helene Schneidermann, Old Lady
Vincent Glander, Voltaire
Mark Milhofer, Captain/Governor/Vanderdendur

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (choir director: Erwin Ortner)
Marin Alsop, conductor
Lydia Steier, staging
Momme Hinrichs, stage and video
Ursula Kudrna, costumes
Elana Siberski, light
Kai Weßler, dramaturgy

Aribert Reimann: Medea

Nicole Chévalier, Medea
Christina Bock, Kreusa
Monika Bohinec, Gora
Daniel Frank, Kreon
Adrian Eröd, Jason
Lawrence Zazzo, Herold

Michael Boder, conductor
Marco Arturo Marelli, director, light and stage
Dagmar Niefind, costumes

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

Tómas Tómasson, Wesener, a pet dealer in Lille
Emiliy Hindrichs, Marie, his daughter
Judith Thielsen, Charlotte, his daughter
Kismara Pezzati, Weseners old mother
Nikolay Borchev, Stolzius, cloth merchant in Armentières
Alexandra Ionis, Stolzius' mother
Lucas Singer, Obrist, count of Spannheim
Martin Koch, Desportes, a nobleman
John Heuzenroeder, Pirzel, ein captain
Oliver Zwarg, Eisenhardt, a field preacher
Miljenko Turk, Haudy
Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger, Mary
Seungjick Kim, Young Woo Kim und Artjom Korotkov, three young officers
Laura Aikin, countess de la Roche
Alexander Kaimbacher, the young count, her son
Alexander Fedin, the servant of the countess de la Roche
Ján Rusko, the young sergeant
Frederik Schauhoff, the drunk officer
Heiko Köpke, Carsten Mainz und Anthony Sandle, three captains

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor
Calixto Bieito, staging
Paul Jeukendrup, sound director

Giacomo Puccini: Il trittico

Lucas Meachem, Gianni Schicchi
Elbenita Kajtazi, Lauretta
Katja Pieweck, Zita
Oleksiy Palchykov, Rinuccío
Jürgen Sacher, Gherardo
Hellen Kwon, Nella
David Minseok Kang, Betto di Signa
Tigran Martirossian, Simone
Alexey Bogdanchikov, Marco
Ida Aldrian, La Ciesca
Han Kim, Maestro Spinelloccio
Mateusz Ługowski, Ser Amantio di Nicolao
Lucas Meachem, Michele
Stefano La Colla, Luigi

Alexander Joel, conductor

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Leonard Bernstein: Candide

Matthew Newlin, Candide
Nikola Hillebrand, Cunegonde
James Newby Maximilian
Ben McAteer, Dr. Pangloss
Helene Schneidermann, Old Lady
Vincent Glander, Voltaire
Mark Milhofer, Captain/Governor/Vanderdendur

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (choir director: Erwin Ortner)
Marin Alsop, conductor
Lydia Steier, staging
Momme Hinrichs, stage and video
Ursula Kudrna, costumes
Elana Siberski, light
Kai Weßler, dramaturgy

Aribert Reimann: Medea

Nicole Chévalier, Medea
Christina Bock, Kreusa
Monika Bohinec, Gora
Daniel Frank, Kreon
Adrian Eröd, Jason
Lawrence Zazzo, Herold

Michael Boder, conductor
Marco Arturo Marelli, director, light and stage
Dagmar Niefind, costumes

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Elena Guseva, Cio-Cio San
Ida Aldrian, Suzuki
Claire Gascoin, Kate Pinkerton
Robert Watson, Pinkerton
Simone Piazzola, Sharpless
N.N., Goro
Mateusz Ługowski, Il Principe Yamadori
Tigran Martirossian, Lo zio Bonzo
Chorsolist, Yakusidè
Grzegorz Pelutis, Il Commissario Imperiale

Alexander Joel, conductor
Christian Günther, choir director
Anna Bergamo, language coach

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Peter Eötvös: Sleepless

Tetiana Miyus, Alida
Mario Lerchenberger, Asle
Mareike Jankowski, Mother
Anna Brull, Midwife
Iris Vermillion, Old Woman
Tetiana Zhuravel, Girl
Neven Crnić, Innkeeper
Daeho Kim, Man in black
Martin Fournier, Jeweler

Vassilis Christopoulos, Musical Director
Georgi Mladenov, Choirmaster
Philipp M. Krenn, Production
Heike Vollmer, Stage design

Nikolaus Habjan, text, puppet making and puppeteer
Simon Meusburger, staging

Habjan's solo performance of the life story of Friedrich Zawrel, tortured in Nazi Austria by the "expert" prison doctor who officially met him again in the later Republic and locked him away once more, is ingenious puppetry for a story that no other genre could have handled so coherently. With sparingly dosed film inserts and linguistically and playfully sovereign handling of the angular loudmouth characters, it became grandiose documentary and emotional theatre in mutual embrace, which was awarded the Nestroy Prize.

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Matthias Rexroth, altus
Ludovic Tézier, baritone

Kazuki Yamada, conductor
Orchestre National de France
Chœur de Radio France
Maîtrise de Radio France