Name: Lear
Start: 2024-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Conductor

Stephan Zilias

Stage director

Joe Hill-Gibbins

Set designer

Tom Scutt

Costume designer

Evie Gurney

Choreographer

Jenny Ogilvie

Chorus master

Lorenzo Da Rio

Dramaturge

Sophia Gustorff

Bass-baritone

Michael Kupfer-Radecky

König Lear

Bass

Yannick Spanier

König von Frankreich

Richard Walshe

Darwin Prakash

Herzog von Albany

Tenor

Paweł Brożek

Herzog von Cornwall

Marco Lee

Graf von Kent

Singer

Frank Schneiders

Graf von Gloster

Countertenor

Nils Wanderer

Edgar

Andrew Watts

Robert Künzli

Edmund

Soprano

Kiandra Howarth

Regan

Meredith Wohlgemuth

Cordelia

Fabio Dorizzi

Bedienter

Spoken

Nico Holonics

Narr

Angela Denoke

Goneril

Staatsoper Hannover

Others

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Ingolf Kumbrink

Ritter

Lighting designer

Andreas Schmidt

Johannes Berndt

Tomas Möwes

Fredrik Zetterström

German

Lear -  (King Lear)

Hanover

Germany

Opernhaus

Lear Reimann

Public

King Lear

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Dancer

Actor

Video designer

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Contralto

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

What to do when power and strength dwindle? King Lear gathers his daughters to divide his inheritance - a cry for love that dies in power-hungry ears. Only his youngest daughter Cordelia notices him and is immediately cast out. The older daughters Regan and Goneril soon become entangled in violent intrigues. The family structure develops into a cyclone of violence and madness that destroys everything the ruler once loved and loved him. Everything that is still alive.

Revolving around lust for power and distrust, jealousy and narcissism, family pressures and the disenchantment of old age, Shakespeare's King Lear belongsamong the most important subjects of world literature. The composer Aribert Reimann created a radical form of music theater out of it, which in the meantime has itself become an opera classic: with hellish vocal parts and a huge orchestra, with impulsive rhythms and crystal-clear words, with spectacular effects and breathtaking sound theatrics. Lear , premiered with great success in Munich in 1978, brings the cruel Shakespeare play ruthlessly close to us, it grips, impresses and shakes. The monumental work, one of the most frequently performed operas of our time, can now be experienced in Hanover for the first time.

With Angela Denoke, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Nils Wanderer, internationally sought-after singers can be seen in the leading roles, while General Music Director Stephan Zilias takes up the challenge of musically shaping the complex overall machinery. A British team consisting of director Joe Hill-Gibbins, who staged the opera Greek as a "sounding comic" ( HAZ ) at the State Opera in 2021 , and star set designer Tom Scutt develops the story in overwhelming images of modern-abstract aesthetics.

English

Was tun, wenn Macht und Kräfte schwinden? König Lear schart seine Töchter um sich, um sein Erbe aufzuteilen – ein Schrei nach Liebe, der in machtgeilen Ohren verhallt. Nur seine jüngste Tochter Cordelia nimmt ihn wahr und wird sogleich verstoßen. Die älteren Töchter Regan und Goneril verstricken sich schon bald in heftige Intrigen. Das Familiengefüge entwickelt sich zum Zyklon aus Gewalt und Irrsinn, der alles zunichtemacht, was der Herrscher einst geliebt und was ihn geliebt hat. Alles, was noch lebt.

Um Machtgeilheit und Misstrauen, Eifersucht und Narzissmus, familiäre Zwänge und die Ernüchterung des Alters kreisend, gehört Shakespeares King Lear zu den bedeutendsten Stoffen der Weltliteratur. Der Komponist Aribert Reimann hat daraus ein radikales Musiktheater geschaffen, das inzwischen selbst zum Opernklassiker geworden ist: Mit höllenschweren Vokalpartien und einem Riesenorchester, mit impulsiven Rhythmen und glasklaren Worten, mit spektakulären Effekten und einer atemberaubenden Klangtheatralik. Lear, 1978 mit großen Erfolg in München uraufgeführt, rückt das grausame Shakespeare-Stück schonungslos in unsere Nähe, es ergreift, beeindruckt und erschüttert. Das Monumentalwerk, eine der meistgespielten Opern unserer Zeit, ist nun erstmals in Hannover zu erleben.

Mit Angela Denoke, Michael Kupfer-Radecky und Nils Wanderer sind international gefragte Sänger:innen in den Hauptrollen zu erleben, Generalmusikdirektor Stephan Zilias stellt sich der Herausforderung, die komplexe Gesamtmaschinerie musikalisch zu gestalten. Ein britisches Team aus Regisseur Joe Hill-Gibbins, der 2021 an der Staatsoper die Oper Greek als „tönenden Comic“ (HAZ) inszeniert hat, und Star-Set-Designer Tom Scutt entwickelt die Geschichte in überwältigenden Bildern modern-abstrakter Ästhetik.

Deutsch

King Lear by Reimann, Wed 14 Feb 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins,, Conductor Stephan Zilias, Opernhaus, Hanover, Germany

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