Name: Die Passagierin
Start: 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatstheater

Organization

Conductor

Hermann Bäumer

Stage director

Nadja Loschky

Set designer

Etienne Pluss

Costume designer

Irina Spreckelmeyer

Lighting designer

Sebastian Alphons

Video designer

Christian Weissenberger

Dramaturge

Marlene Hahn

Elena Garcia Fernandez

Oper Graz

Staatstheater Mainz

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Karina Repova

Liese

Tenor

Florian Stern

Walter

Soprano

Nadja Stefanoff

Marta

Margarita Vilsone

Baritone

Brett Carter

Tadeusz

Julietta Aleksanyan

Katya

Lamia Beuque

Krzystina

Luisa Sagliano

Vlasta

Contralto

Karolina Makuła

Hannah

Lucie Ceralová

Bronka

Alexandra Samouilidou

Yvette

Ruth Müller

Old Woman

Bass

Stephan Bootz

1. SS Officer

Collin André Schöning

3. SS Officer

Dogus Güney

Elderly Passenger

Kruna Savic

Oberaufseherin

Spoken

Ina Meyer

Kapo

Georg Schießl

Steward

Heide-Marie Böhm-Schmitz

Alte Lisa

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

Others

Chor des Staatstheater Mainz

Statistry of the Mainz State Theater

Frederik Wollek

Chorus master

Sebastian Hernandez-Laverny

Liudmila Maytak

Anika Baumann

Gregor Loebel

2. SS Officer

German

Polish

Russian

Die Passagierin -  (The Passenger)

Mainz

Germany

Staatstheater

Großes Haus

Public

Private

Opera

The Passenger

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

„Wenn eines Tages eure Stimmen verhallt sind, dann gehen wir zugrunde.“ Mit diesen Worten macht sich Marta am Ende von Mieczysław Weinbergs Oper Die Passagierin ihre Verantwortung bewusst, all jene nie zu vergessen, die in Konzentrationslagern ums Leben kamen.
Fünfzehn Jahre nach Kriegsende reisen Lisa und ihr Mann Walter, ein bundesdeutscher Diplomat, nach Brasilien, um dort ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch plötzlich fährt Lisa der Schrecken in alle Glieder: In einer Frau auf dem Schiff glaubt sie Marta wiederzuerkennen, eine ehemalige Insassin im KZ Auschwitz, wo sie selbst als Aufseherin tätig war. Szenen aus dem Jahr 1944 in Auschwitz werden wieder lebendig und zwingen Lisa, ihrer Vergangenheit ins Auge zu blicken.
Basierend auf der gleichnamigen Novelle der polnischen Autorin und Auschwitz-Überlebenden Zofia Posmysz schuf Weinberg eine Oper über Schuld und die erneute Konfrontation mit der Vergangenheit. Der polnisch-jüdische Komponist, der seine Familie im Holocaust verlor, lässt die Gefangenen in verschiedenen Sprachen singen und verbindet in seiner 1968 vollendeten, jedoch erst 2010 szenisch uraufgeführten Oper spätromantische Opulenz mit Zwölftontechnik, Volkslied und Tanzmusik zu einem eindringlichen Mahnmal gegen das Verschleiern und Vergessen.

Deutsch

“If one day your voices have faded away, then we will perish.” With these words at the end of Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger, Marta makes herself aware of her responsibility to never forget all those who died in concentration camps.
Fifteen years after the end of the war, Lisa and her husband Walter, a German diplomat, travel to Brazil to start a new life there. But suddenly Lisa is overcome with terror: in a woman on the ship she thinks she recognizes Marta, a former inmate in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she herself worked as a guard. Scenes from 1944 in Auschwitz come to life again and force Lisa to confront her past.
Based on the novella of the same name by the Polish author and Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz, Weinberg created an opera about guilt and renewed confrontation with the past. The Polish-Jewish composer, who lost his family in the Holocaust, has the prisoners sing in different languages ​​and in his opera, completed in 1968 but not staged for the first time until 2010, he combines late romantic opulence with twelve-tone technique, folk songs and dance music to form a haunting memorial against obfuscation and forgetting .

English

The Passenger by Weinberg, From (2024/2024), Directed by Nadja Loschky,, Conductor Hermann Bäumer, Staatstheater, Mainz, Germany

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