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

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

Francis Poulenc: Les Dialogues des Carmélites

Nicole Car, Blanche
Bernard Richter, Le Chévalier
Michaela Schuster, Madame de Croissy
Maria Motolygina, Madame Lidoine
Julie Boulianne, Mère Marie
Michael Kraus, Le Marquis de la Force
Sabine Devieilhe, Soeur Constance

Bertrand de Billy, musical direction
Magdalena Fuchsberger, stage direction
Monika Biegler, stage
Valentin Köhler, costumes
Aron Kitzig, video
Rudolf Fischer, light

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

Franz Schubert: Die Geselligkeit D 609 "Lebenslust"
Franz Schubert: Der Einsame, Op.41, D.800
Franz Schubert: Das Abendrot (Kosegarten) D 236
Franz Schubert: Trauer der Liebe, D 465
Franz Schubert: Gott im Ungewitter, D 985
Franz Schubert: Hymne an den Unendlichen, D 232
Franz Schubert: An die Sonne, D 439
Franz Schubert: Der Traum D 213
Franz Schubert: Licht und Liebe, D 352
Franz Schubert: Der Hochzeitsbraten D 930
Franz Schubert: Gott der Weltschöpfer, D 986

Lieder and ensemble music by Franz Schubert

Esther Dierkes, Soprano
Hagar Sharvit, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Kluge, Tenor
David Steffens, Bass
Markus Hadulla, Piano & Director

After the rather pensive and philosophical male ensemble project Nachthelle!, this second Schubertian ensemble programme, conceived by pianist Markus Hadulla, is much more cheerful. This time, women are also involved, allowing for a performance of Schubert's delicious and unfortunately far too rarely heard tercet "Der Hochzeitsbraten". There won't be a dry eye in the house!

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.

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

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

Vocal chamber music by Brahms and Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Jan Petryka, Tenor
Helena Dearing, Soprano
Martha Hirschmann, Mezzo-soprano
Andreas Lebeda, Baritone
Claus Christian Schuster, Piano

Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45

Regula Mühlemann, Soprano
Florian Boesch, Bass-baritone

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe, Conductor