Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute, KV 620

Sarastro, Georg Zeppenfeld
Tamino, Julian Prégardien
Sprecher, Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Königin der Nacht, Serena Sáenz
Pamina, Slávka Zámečníková
1. Dame, Jenni Hietala
2. Dame, Alma Neuhaus
3. Dame, Stephanie Maitland
Papageno, Ludwig Mittelhammer
Papagena, Ilia Staple
Monostatos, Matthäus Schmidlechner

Musical Director, Franz Welser-Möst
Director, Barbora Horákova
Staging & Video, Falko Herold
Costumes, Eva Butzkies
Lighting, Stefan Bolliger

A chorus of whistles

Having made audiences roar with laughter and enchanted them in the previous two seasons in Halle E with La Périchole and Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen, Nikolaus Habjan now tells them they can go whistle for the big stage and the entire opera genre (for one night only, of course!) because the director and puppeteer is also well known as a virtuoso whistler. In Austria, this art form was practised by the likes of Baron Jean and Baroness Lips von Lipstrill, and the tradition is now being continued by Habjan, more or less on his own. He has long since made a name for himself as one of the best whistlers in the world. And his speciality is nothing less than the art of coloratura arias. Accompanied by the pianist Ines Schüttengruber he makes a whistle stop in the “Hölle”.

Nikolaus Habjan, Artistic whistler
Ines Schüttengruber, Piano

Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka

Christiane Karg, Rusalka
Brian Jagde, The Prince
Anna Samuil, The foreign princess
Jongmin Park, Vodník
Anna Kissjudit, Ježibaba
Jaka Mihelač, Gamekeeper
Clara Nadeshdin, Kitchen boy
Maria Kokareva, First wood sprite
Rebecka Wallroth, Second wood sprite
Sandra Laagus, Third wood sprite
Taehan Kim, Hunter

Tomáš Hanus, musical director
Kornél Mundruczó, director
Monika Pormale, set design & costumes
Felice Ross, light
Rūdolfs Baltiņš, video

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute, KV 620

Sarastro, Georg Zeppenfeld
Tamino, Julian Prégardien
Sprecher, Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Königin der Nacht, Serena Sáenz
Pamina, Slávka Zámečníková
1. Dame, Jenni Hietala
2. Dame, Alma Neuhaus
3. Dame, Stephanie Maitland
Papageno, Ludwig Mittelhammer
Papagena, Ilia Staple
Monostatos, Matthäus Schmidlechner

Musical Director, Franz Welser-Möst
Director, Barbora Horákova
Staging & Video, Falko Herold
Costumes, Eva Butzkies
Lighting, Stefan Bolliger

Patricia Nolz, Mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau, Piano

Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben op. 42
& Lieder by Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky and Robert Schumann

Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka

Christiane Karg, Rusalka
Brian Jagde, The Prince
Anna Samuil, The foreign princess
Jongmin Park, Vodník
Anna Kissjudit, Ježibaba
Jaka Mihelač, Gamekeeper
Clara Nadeshdin, Kitchen boy
Maria Kokareva, First wood sprite
Rebecka Wallroth, Second wood sprite
Sandra Laagus, Third wood sprite
Taehan Kim, Hunter

Tomáš Hanus, musical director
Kornél Mundruczó, director
Monika Pormale, set design & costumes
Felice Ross, light
Rūdolfs Baltiņš, video

Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka

Christiane Karg, Rusalka
Brian Jagde, The Prince
Anna Samuil, The foreign princess
Jongmin Park, Vodník
Anna Kissjudit, Ježibaba
Jaka Mihelač, Gamekeeper
Clara Nadeshdin, Kitchen boy
Maria Kokareva, First wood sprite
Rebecka Wallroth, Second wood sprite
Sandra Laagus, Third wood sprite
Taehan Kim, Hunter

Tomáš Hanus, musical director
Kornél Mundruczó, director
Monika Pormale, set design & costumes
Felice Ross, light
Rūdolfs Baltiņš, video

Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Sunnyboy Dladla, Graf Almaviva
Morten Staugaard, Doktor Bartolo
Patricia Nolz, Rosina
Theodore Platt, Figaro

Matteo Beltrami, Conductor
Martin Lyngbo, Stage Director
Line Kromann, Staging Revival
Kristjan Ingimarsson, Choreographer

Antonín Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel. Symphonic Poem, op. 109
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G-Major for orchestra and soprano solo

Christiane Karg, Soprano
Gewandhausorchester
Andris Nelsons, Conductor

With  members of the opera studio of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz