Breath Line – A Journey into Käthe Kollwitz in the Scenery Storage

With Nina Hoss and Olga Pashchenko (piano)

“I can hardly imagine that any art other than music can penetrate so deeply into the inner self,” Käthe Kollwitz writes about Schubert. What happens when her words meet his songs? A dialogue between two artists who never spoke – and yet understand each other. In this program, Nina Hoss meets Georg Nigl for the first time, and they take us behind the scenes of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nina Hoss, narrator
Olga Pashchenko, piano

Breath Line – A Journey into Käthe Kollwitz in the Scenery Storage

With Nina Hoss and Olga Pashchenko (piano)

“I can hardly imagine that any art other than music can penetrate so deeply into the inner self,” Käthe Kollwitz writes about Schubert. What happens when her words meet his songs? A dialogue between two artists who never spoke – and yet understand each other. In this program, Nina Hoss meets Georg Nigl for the first time, and they take us behind the scenes of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nina Hoss, narrator
Olga Pashchenko, piano

Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims

Martina Russomanno, Corinna
Salome Jicia, Madame Cortese
Sabine Devieilhe, La Comtesse de Folleville
Teresa Iervolino, La Marquise Melibea
Maxime Mironov, Le Comte de Libenskof
Jack Swanson, Le Chevalier Belfiore
Michael Mofidian, Lord Sidney
Georgiy Derbas-Richter, Don Alvaro
Michele Govi, Le Baron de Trombonok
Nicola Alaimo, Don Profondo
Jared Mac Werlein, Don Prudenzio
Mi Young Kim, Maddalena
Magali Duceau, Modestina
Louis Zaitoun, Don Luigino
José Pazos, Gelsomino / Zefirino
Rodrigo Garcia, Antonio
Fanny Soyer, Delia

Jader Bignamini, conductor
Laurent Pelly, stage director & costumes
Massimo Troncanetti, stage
Marco Giusti, light
Mark Biggins, chorus master
Chœur du Grand Théâtre de Genève
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Breath Line – A Journey into Käthe Kollwitz in the Scenery Storage

With Nina Hoss and Olga Pashchenko (piano)

“I can hardly imagine that any art other than music can penetrate so deeply into the inner self,” Käthe Kollwitz writes about Schubert. What happens when her words meet his songs? A dialogue between two artists who never spoke – and yet understand each other. In this program, Nina Hoss meets Georg Nigl for the first time, and they take us behind the scenes of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nina Hoss, narrator
Olga Pashchenko, piano

Sergei Prokofjew: Concert for piano No.. 3 in C major, op. 26
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major for orchstra and soprano solo

Yuja Wang, piano
Christiane Karg, soprano

Wiener Philharmoniker
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Breath Line – A Journey into Käthe Kollwitz in the Scenery Storage

With Nina Hoss and Olga Pashchenko (piano)

“I can hardly imagine that any art other than music can penetrate so deeply into the inner self,” Käthe Kollwitz writes about Schubert. What happens when her words meet his songs? A dialogue between two artists who never spoke – and yet understand each other. In this program, Nina Hoss meets Georg Nigl for the first time, and they take us behind the scenes of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nina Hoss, narrator
Olga Pashchenko, piano

John Adams: Doctor Atomic

Leigh Melrose, Robert Oppenheimer
Xiaomeng Zhang, General Leslie Groves
Matthew Rose, Edward Teller
Mauro Peter, Robert R. Wilson
Yannick Debus, Frank Hubbard
Nathan Haller, Captain James Nolan
Dominika Stefańska, Pasqualita

Elim Chan, musical direction
Vanessa Beecroft, stage direction and design
Rosa-Maria Presta, set design assistant
Tabatha McFadyen, assistant director
Martin Gebhardt, lighting design
Jana Beckmann, dramaturgy
Klaas-Jan de Groot, chorus master

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto

SeungJick Kim, Duke of Mantua
Grga Peroš, Rigoletto
Olga Jelínková, Gilda
Shavleg Armasi, Sparafucile
Anthea Barać, Maddalena
Frank Schneider, Count Monterone
Juhyeon Kim, Marullo
Jonathan Winell, Borsa

Tobias Wögerer, conductor
Karsten Wiegand, director
Ruben Michael, staging
Bärbl Hohmann, set design
Moritz Junge, costumes
Claus Ackenhausen, light design
Lorenzo Da Rio, chorusmaster 
Albrecht Puhlmann, dramaturgy

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover
Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Malin Byström, Feldmarschallin
Martin Summer, Baron Ochs von Lerchenau
Angela Brower, Octavian
Clemens Unterreiner, Herr von Faninal
Nikola Hillebrand, Sophie
Kang Wang, A Singer

Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Otto Schenk, stage director
Rudolf Heinrich, staging
Erni Kniepert, costume designer

Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise, D 911, op 89

Julian Prégardien, tenor
Kris Bezuidenhout, pianoforte