Cast

Director

Calixto Bieito

Birthplace:
Miranda de Ebro, Spain

Studies:
Hispanic studies and art history at the University of Barcelona (1980 to 1985), performance at the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Tarragona and stage direction at the Theater Institute of the Diputació de Barcelona

Prizes:
Premios Ópera Actual (2019), Premios Líricos Ópera XXI (2018), Premios Líricos Campoamor (2014), Premio Franco Abbiati (2012), European Cultural Award (2009)

Important productions:
"War and Peace" (Geneva, Budapest), "Tristan und Isolde", "Von der Liebe Tod", "Elias" (Vienna), "Marienvesper", "Der Silbersee" (Mannheim), "Moses und Aron" (Dresden, 2018), "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (Zurich), "Johannes-Passion" (Bilbao and Paris), "Messa da Requiem", "¡Gesualdo! ", "Otello", "Falstaff" (Hamburg), "Turandot", "Die Trojaner" (Nuremberg), "Carmen" (Paris, Vienna, Venice, Madrid, etc. ), "Oresteia", "Aida", "Don Carlos" (Basel), "Der feurige Engel" (Zurich and Madrid), "Tosca" (Oslo, 2017), "The Fairy Queen", "Parsifal", "Der fliegende Holländer", "Platée" (Stuttgart), "Lear", "The Exterminating Angel", "Simon Boccanegra" (Paris), "Boris Gudonov", "Fidelio", "La Juive" (Munich), "War Requiem" (London, Basel, Oslo), "Tannhäuser" (Antwerp, Leipzig and Venice), "Die Wohlgesinnten" and "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (Antwerp), "Katya Kabanova" (Prague and Dresden), "La forza del destino" (London), "Wilde" (Schwetzingen), "Die Soldaten" (Zurich, Berlin and Madrid), "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (Berlin), "Don Giovanni", "La traviata" (Hanover), "Macbeth" (Salzburg), et al.

Career Stages:
Artistic Director of the Teatro Arriaga Bilbao (since 2017), Artist in Residence at Theater Basel (2013 to 2015), Artistic Director of the Barcelona Internacional Teatre (2011 to 2012), Artistic Director of the FACYL in Salamanca (2010 to 2012), Director of the Festival Internacional de las Artes de Castilla y León (2010 and 2011), Artistic Director of the Teatre Romea in Barcelona (1999 to 2011), et al.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Monika Rittershaus

General Music Director of Hamburg

Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano is considered one of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is committed as Artistic Director of the Ring project “The Wagner Cycles” of Dresdner Musikfestspiele with Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, and as patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival. He has been Honorary Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2006, Concerto Köln since 2019, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 2021 and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester since 2023.

The 2024/25 season is Kent Nagano's last season as General Music Director in Hamburg and brings four new productions to the Staatsoper under Nagano's musical direction: Carl Orff's Trionfi, Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Unsuk Chin's The Dark Side of the Moon, and Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier's The Illusions of William Mallory. Furthermore, he conducts symphony concerts with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester in the Elbphilharmonie as he does every season, including the New Year's performance and the world premiere of Alex Nante's symphony Anahata, a work commissioned by the Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons in Hamburg have included opera productions such as Boris Godunov, Salome, performances of Sciarrino's Venere e Adone and Britten's Peter Grimes, Les Troyens, Lulu, Lessons in Love and Violence and the world premiere of Stilles Meer as well as Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the new production by Daniele Finzi Pasca (released on DVD by EuroArts, February 2022), the “Philharmonic Academy” in St. Michaelis, open-air concerts at the Rathausmarkt and the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's work Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie. Orchestral tours with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have taken Kent Nagano to Japan, Spain and South America.

In the 2024/25 season, Kent Nagano conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Passau, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Montréal and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, among others. He also conducts Dusapin's Il Vaggio, Dante in a production by Claus Guth at the Paris Opera and the revival of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

As a much sought-after guest conductor, Kent Nagano regularly works with leading international orchestras worldwide, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de l'Opéra national in Paris, the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the Wiener Symphoniker. A special project was the Bernstein opera A quiet place at the Paris Opera. Other opera productions include the world premiere of Dusapin's Il viaggio, dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Hindemith's Cardillac, Henze's Die Bassariden and the world premiere of Saariaho's L'amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Other world premieres conducted by Nagano include Bernstein's A White House Cantata and the operas Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös and The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño by John Adams.

Under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano and the Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy will be performed in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into Wagner and performance practice, and integrated into an extensive supporting program as part of the multi-year project The Wagner Cycles of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele from 2023 to 2026. The first performance in 2023 was Das Rheingold at the Dresden Music Festival and the tour to Cologne, Ravello and Lucerne under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. Die Walküre followed in 2024 as the second work in the epochal narrative in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and Lucerne. In 2025, the project devotes itself to Richard Wagner's Siegfried and gives historically informed concert performances in international concert halls and opera houses.

Highlights of Kent Nagano's collaboration with the OSM as Music Director from 2006 to 2020 included the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall La Maison Symphonique in September 2011, performances of the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, concert versions of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Das Rheingold, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bücher, and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada including the Northern Territories, Japan, South Korea, Europe (latest 2019), Latin America and the USA. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM at the Salzburg Festival opening concert.
His recordings with the OSM on Sony Classical/Analekta include Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Christian Gerhaher in 2013 and a complete recording of all of Beethoven’s symphonies in 2015. Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert in 2016, conducted by Nagano in 2015. Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in 2016 as well as a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in 2018 on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. John Adams' Common tones in simple time & harmony (Decca) was released in 2019, the Lukas Passion by Penderecki (BIS) and works by Ginastera, Bernstein and Moussa (Analekta) in 2020.

At the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was General Music Director from 2006 to 2013, Kent Nagano commissioned new operas such as Babylon by Jörg Widmann, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin. New productions included Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Frau ohne Schatten, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise, Berg’s Wozzeck, George Benjamin's Written on skin and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tours took Nagano and the Bavarian State Orchestra through Europe and Japan. In addition to Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (Sony), Kent Nagano has released several opera performances with the Bavarian State Orchestra on DVD: Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland (2008) and Mussorgsky's Chowanschtschina (2009) with unitel classica/medici arts, Dialogue des Carmélites with Bel Air Classiques (2011) and Lohengrin (2010) with Decca.

Another very important period in Nagano’s career was his time as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 2000-2006. He performed Schönberg’s Moses und Aron with the orchestra (in collaboration with Los Angeles Opera) and took them to the Salzburg Festival to perform both Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules and Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, as well as to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Parsifal and Lohengrin in productions by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Recordings with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Harmonia Mundi include repertoire as diverse as Bernstein’s Mass, Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge, Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Schönberg’s Die Jakobsleiter and Friede auf Erden, as well as Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Schönberg’s Variationen für Orchester Op. 31. In June 2006, at the end of his tenure with the orchestra, Kent Nagano was given the title Honorary Conductor by members of the orchestra – only the second recipient of this honour in their 60-year history. To this day he maintains a close friendship with the orchestra.

In October 2019, Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama expanded their joint recordings of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 E-flat Major WoO 4, a nearly unknown work from the composer’s youth, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The complete edition of Beethoven’s piano concerti was released on the Berlin Classics label.

Nagano was awarded Grammys for his recordings of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with Opéra National de Lyon, Prokofjew’s Peter and the Wolf with the Russian National Orchestra and Saariaho’s L’amour de Loin with the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin. He has worked with labels such as BIS, Decca, Sony Classical, FARAO Classics and Analekta for many years, and has also recorded CDs with Berlin Classics, Erato, Teldec, Pentatone, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi.

To celebrate Kent Nagano's 70th birthday in 2021, a 3-CD box set of works by Olivier Messiaen was released in October on the BR Klassik label. The release includes live recordings of the works Poèmes pour Mi, Chronochromie and La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ from his concerts with the Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, demonstrating Nagano's close familiarity with Messiaen's musical language in a special way.

In September 2021, Kent Nagano published his second book with Berlin Verlag. In "10 Lessons of my Life", he recalls ten deeply personal encounters from which he learned important lessons, not only for his career but for his life more broadly. Among those experiences are encounters with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and the Nobel Prize winner in physics Donald Glaser.
In 2015 Kent Nagano published "Erwarten Sie Wunder!" also in Berlin Verlag, a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today's world. In 2019 the book was released in English by the Canadian McGill-Queen's University Press under the title ″Classical Music - Expect the Unexpected" and in 2015 under "Sonnez, merveilles!" in French by Éditions du Boréal.

Born in California, Nagano maintains close connections with his home state and was Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1978-2009. His first major successes came with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1984, when Messiaen appointed him assistant to conductor Seiji Ozawa for the premiere of his opera Saint François d'Assise. Nagano’s success in America led to European appointments: Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1988-1998) and Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra (1991-2000). Kent Nagano became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003 having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years.

Kent Nagano was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill University in Montréal in 2005, an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal in 2006, and an honorary doctorate from San Francisco State University in 2018. Since 2017, Kent Nagano has been a "Compagnon" of the "Ordre des arts et des lettres" of Québec and in the fall of 2023, Kent Nagano was also awarded the title of "Chevalier" in the "Ordre des art et des lettres" of France. In February 2024, Kent Nagano was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President and in June 2024 he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. Kent Nagano is the recipient of the 2024 Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.

Find further information about Kent Nagano here.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• 1st Academy Concert - Program I
• 1st Academy Concert - Program II
• 1st Academy Concert - Program III
• Trionfi
• 1st Philharmonic Concert
• Boris Godunov
• Special chamber concert
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• 3rd Philharmonic Concert
• Elektra
• New Year's Eve concert
• Der fliegende Holländer
• Orchesterprobenbesuch
• 5th Philharmonic Concert
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• 6th Philharmonic Concert
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• Opening concert of the Hamburg International Music Festival
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Die Illusionen des William Mallory
• Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
• 10th Philharmonic Concert

photo: Dominik Odenkirchen

Stage Designer

Rebecca Ringst

Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany

Studies:
Stage and costume design with Andreas Reinhardt at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (graduated in 2002), followed by studies in video art at the Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona

Prizes:
Stage Designer of the Year (2019, Opera Awards London), Premio Max (Spain), Hedda Prize (Norway), Stage Designer of the Year (2010, Opernwelt) for "Der Rosenkavalier" with Stefan Herheim at the Stuttgart Opera

Important productions:
"La vida breve" (Theater Freiburg), "Don Carlos", "Aida", "Aus einem Totenhaus" (Theater Basel, re-performed: Staatstheater Nürnberg, Janáček Festival Brno), "Agrippina" (Bavarian State Opera Munich, transferred: Royal Opera House Londno), "Fidelio", "Boris Godunov", "La Juive", "Der feurige Engel" (Bavarian State Opera Munich), "La forza del destino", "Fidelio" (English National Opera London), "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" (Nørske Opera), "Hamsuns Mysterien" (Nationaltheatret Oslo), "Die Soldaten" (Opernhaus Zürich, reprised: Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid), "Der feurige Engel", "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (Zurich Opera House), "Der fliegende Holländer" (Württembergische Staatsoper Stuttgart), "Lear" (Opéra de Paris, re-performed: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro Real Madrid), "Tannhäuser" (Vlaamse Opera, re-performed: Stadttheater Bern, the Teatro La Fenice Venice, Opernhaus Leipzig), "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny", "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", "Parras Les Bienveillantes" (Vlaamse Opera), "Bluebeard's Castle", "Die Gezeichneten" (Komische Oper Berlin), "Turandot" (Staatstheater Nürnberg), "Moses und Aron", "Le Grand macabre" (Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden), "Mendelssohn's Elijah" (Theater an der Wien), "Meistersinger von Nürnberg" (Bayreuth Festival), "Die ersten Menschen", "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", "Il trittico" (Amsterdam Opera), "Krieg und Frieden" (Grand Théâtre Genève and Budapest State Opera), "Lohengrin" and "Aida" (Berlin State Opera), "Tristan und Isolde", "Von der Liebe Tod" (Vienna State Opera), et al.

Cooperations:
Calixto Bieito, Barry Kosky, Simon McBurney, Stefan Herheim, Andrea Moses et al.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Andrea Grambow & Joscha Kirchknopf

Mitarbeit Bühne

Annett Hunger

Birthplace:
Meißen, Germany

Studies:
Studies of architecture, TU Dresden
Master's degree in stage and costume design, Berlin

Important productions:
„Marie! Romy! Petra!“ (Theater Ulm/Theater Plauen-Zwickau) , „Elektra“ (Theater Gießen/Harztheater Halberstadt), „Die kahle Sängerin“ (Semperoper Dresden), „Don Carlos“ Staatstheater Braunschweig, „Rusalka“ (Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen), „Hamlet“ (Theater Hildesheim/Landesbühnen Sachsen), „Dido und Äneas“ (Landesbühnen Sachsen), „Giselle“ (Theater Plauen-Zwickau), „ÜberLeben“ und “Babel“ (perform/d/ance Stralsund/Haus der Berliner Festspiele), et al.

Career stages:
- freelance work as an architect in Dresden
- following her master's degree, permanent engagement as stage and costume designer at Theater Hildesheim
- since 2001 own set designs, since 2007 freelance stage and costume designer, primarily in the field of music and dance theater, e.g. for Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Theater Ulm, Theater Plauen-Zwickau, Theater Gießen, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Theater des Westens Berlin, Harztheater Halberstadt, acta teatro Faro/ Portugal.
- Regular stage design work at the Munich State Opera, Berlin State Opera and Komische Oper, National Opera Amsterdam, Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Bayreuth Festival, L'Opéra national Paris, Grand Théâtre Genève, National Theatre Oslo, Salzburg Festival.

Cooperations:
- Collaboration for many years with the choreographers Annett Göhre, Tarek Assam, Carlos Matos and perform/d/ance Stralsund.
- In opera, she has worked with Andrea Moses, Elisabeth Stöppler and Babora Horakova Joly, among others, as well as regularly in the team of Calixto Bieito and Barrie Kosky.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Privat

Costume Designer

Anja Rabes

Birthplace:
Munich, Germany

Education and training:
tailoring apprenticeship at the Bayerische Staatsoper, theatre studies in Munich

Prizes:
Invitations for theatre meetings 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, Faustpreis Team 2007, 2011 , Nestroy Team 2009, et al.

Important productions:
“Prinz von Homburg“ (Oper Stuttgart 2019), “King Arthur” (Oper Basel 2018), “Tosca“ (Oslo, 2017), “Fairy Queen“ (Stuttgart 2016), “Schaum der Tage“ (Oper Stuttgart 2012 ), “Angst“ (Salzburger Festspiele 2010 ), “Don Giovanni“ (Bayerische Staatsoper 2009 ), “Das letzte Band/Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet oder eine Frage des Lichts“ (Salzburger Festspiele 2009), “Rechnitz“ (Münchner Kammerspiele, 2008), “Rusalka“ (Salzburger Festspiele 2008; assumption London, Geneva), Mozart/da Ponte-cycle (Het Muziektheater Amsterdam 2006), “Mittagswende“ (MünchnerKammerspiele 2004), et al.

Career stages:
costume assistant at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (with Anna Viebrock), Burgtheater in Wien (with Axel Manthey), Münchner Kammerspiele (with Johannes Grützke), Equipment for music videos, stage and costume designer in Hamburg, Munich and Zurich since 2004, Guest lecturer scenography class at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, teaching position at the Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Hamburg, et al.

Cooperations:
Jossi Wieler / Sergio Morabito , Stephan Kimmig, Johan Simons, Christoph Marthaler, Calixto Bieito, Carolyn Carlson, Verena Weiss, Anselm Weber, et al.

Performances

• Trionfi

Light Designer

Michael Bauer

Work of recent years:XCo
2021: Kiril Serebrennikov The Nose (Bavarian State Opera), with Calixto Bieto Decalogue at the
Munich Residenztheater, War and Peace at the Geneve Opera House, Johannes Passion
Theatre Chatelet Paris, Faust at the Opera de Bastille Paris with Tobias Kratzer
2022: with Calixto Bieto Tristan und Isolde (Staataoper Vienna), Bluthaus at the Munich
Cuvilliéstheater with Claus Guth, La Gazza Ladra at Theater an der Wien with Tobias Kratzer,
2023: Giulio Cesare (Netherlands National Opera) with Calixto Bieto,

Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Cuvilliés Theater Munich,
Prinzregententheater Munich, Residenztheater Munich, Den Norske Opera, Opera
Vlaanderen, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Opera House, Theater Basel,
Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao, Opéra National de Paris, Oper Leipzig, Theater an der
Wien, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Staatsoper Unter den Linden,
Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden , Teatro Comunale di Bologna, English National Opera,
Teatro Real, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Grand Théâtre de
Genève, Greek National Opera, Theater Sankt Gallen, Theater Bern, theatro la fenice,
Vienna State Opera, Theatro dell'Opera di Roma, Budapest State Opera, Komische Oper
Berlin, Teatro di San Carlo Naples

Stations:
Head of the lighting department at the Bavarian State Opera for more than 20 years.

Cooperation:
Calixto Bieito, David Bösch, August Everding, Luc Bondy, Yannis Kokkos, David Alden,
Leander Haußmann, Georges Delnon, Antú Romero Nunes, Roland Schwab, Andreas
Dresen, Peter Konwitschny, Claus Guth, Barbara Frey, Jürgen Rose, Tobias Kratzer, Amelie
Niermayr, Götz Friedrich, Hans Neuenfels, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Doris Dörrie, Axel Ranisch,
Christian Stückl, Andy Ammer, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Schorsch Kamerun, Andreas
Kriegenburg, Saar Magal,

Previous cooperation with Hamburg State Opera:
Il Trovatore, the Ring of the Nibelungs, Ariadne auf Naxos, Palestrina, Manon Lescaut,
Falstaff, Otello, Fidelio

Performances

• Trionfi

Video

Sarah Derendinger

Birthplace:
Lucerne, Switzerland

Studies:
Bern University of Art and Design, Diploma in Photography
Theaterschool AHK Amsterdam, Modern Dance
Basel School of Design, Diploma in Audiovisual Design
Participation in the Ekran+ course for European film directors in Warsaw

Prizes:
Vision du réel in Nyon: PRIX CINEMA SWISS 2009 for "Familientreffen"
Premis de la critica for video design of "Obabakoak" at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao

Important productions:
Die Soldaten (Opernhaus Zürich), Der feurige Engel (Opernhaus Zürich), L'incoronazione di Poppea (Opernhaus Zürich), The Force of Destiny (La forza del destino) (English National Opera London), Lear (Opéra national de Paris), La Juive (Bavarian State Opera), Moses und Aron (Semperoper Dresden), Le Grand Macabre, La traviata (Semperoper Dresden), Elijah (Theater an der Wien), "Lear", "Simon Boccanegra" (Opéra national de Paris), "Die ersten Menschen" (Amsterdam), et al.

Career stages:
Freelance director, author and video artist since 1993
As a TV director, realization of new television formats, mostly for Swiss television SRF
Video installations for exhibitions, in public spaces, on stages and at festivals

Cooperations:
Calixto Bieito, Barbora Horáková, et al.

Find further information about Sarah Derendinger here.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Dominique Uldry

Dramaturge

Bettina Auer

Birthplace:
Heidelberg, Germany

Studies:
Musical theater directing at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, musicology and German studies at the University of Hamburg and the TU Berlin

Career stages:
As a freelance production dramaturge (since 2012): Amsterdam Opera, Teatro Argentino (Pepita Jiménez), Teatro Canal Madrid, Antwerp Opera (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth), Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Salzburg Festival (Mozart trilogy, Aida), Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo National Theatre (Ein Traumspiel), Theater an der Wien (incl. Capriccio, Ring Trilogy, Elijah), Oslo Opera (The Tales of Hoffmann, La Traviata, Tosca), Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao (St. John Passion), Opéra National de Paris (Lear, The Exterminating Angel), Grand Théâtre de Genève (Jenufa, Katya Kabanova), Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatsoper Berlin and others.
Permanent engagements as music dramaturge and head dramaturge: Theater in Bern, Theater Darmstadt, Theater Basel, Komische Oper Berlin

Cooperations with directors:
Calixto Bieito, Tatjana Gürbaca, Stefan Bachmann, Karin Beier, Claus Guth, Jasmina Hadziahmetovic, Andreas Homoki, Barrie Kosky, Hans Neuenfels, Stefan Pucher, Corinna von Rad, Joachim Schlömer, Nicolas Stemann, Michael Thalheimer, et al.

Teaching:
Directing class at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts, Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, lecturer at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Theater and Music Leipzig, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Heidelberg University

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Herwig Prammer

Choir Director

Eberhard Friedrich

Birthplace:
Darmstadt, Germany

Studies:
Studies with Helmuth Rilling in Frankfurt am Main

Prizes:
Under his direction, the Bayreuther Festspielchor was awarded the International Opera Award for Best Choir of the Year in 2014. Under his direction, the choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden was named Choir of the Year in 2004 and received the European Cultural Award (2009). Eberhard Friedrich also received a Grammy for his recording of "Tannhäuser" at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Daniel Barenboim (2003)

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Choir director of the Hamburg State Opera since 2013/14

Career stages:
Choir director of the Festspielchor / Bayreuther Festspiele (since 2000), choir director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1998 to 2013), assistant at the Bayreuther Festspiele (since 1993), choir director at the Theater der Stadt Koblenz (1986 to 1991) as well as at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (1991 to 1998)

Cooperation with choirs:
MDR-Rundfunkchor, Amsterdam Opera Choir, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Chor des Niederländischen Rundfunks, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rias Kammerchor, Bayerischer Rundfunkchor, Chöre des Westminster Choir College, et al.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Trionfi
• Boris Godunov
• La clemenza di Tito
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
• Der fliegende Holländer
• Maria Stuarda

photo: Enrico Nawrath

Choir director Liatoshinsky Capella

Bogdan Plish

Place of birth:
Mukachevo, Ukraine

Studies:
National Music Academy of Ukraine (2001, choral conducting; 2006, opera and symphony conducting), assistantship-internship with Lev Venedyktov

Awards:
As the founder and conductor of chamber choir Credo:
⁃ Winner of the XXIV International Competition of Sacred Music 'Hainuwka-2005' (Poland),
⁃ Grand Prix of the 44th International Choir Competition in Tolosa (Spain),
⁃ finalist of the European Grand Prix in choral singing-2013 (Arezzo, Italy).
Other awards:
⁃ Winner of the Grand Prix of the All-Ukrainian competition of choral conductors (2005)
⁃ Laureate of the award named after L.Revutsky (2007)
⁃ Honored Artist of Ukraine (2013), honorary state award given by the President of Ukraine
⁃ People's Artist of Ukpaine (2021), honorary state award given by the President of Ukraine
⁃ Ordine della Stella d’Italia (2024), honorary state award given by the President of Italy

Stations and important work:
In 2002 – prompter, in 2007 – choirmaster, since 2013 – chief choirmaster and conductor of the National Opera House of Ukraine. Combines his work at the theater with creative activities as a chief conductor of the Liatoshynskyi Capella of the National House of Music. Leads the chamber choir ‘Credo, which he founded in 2002

Production choirmaster of such operas as Boyarynya by V. Kyreyko, L’elisir d’amore, The Barber of Seville by G. Donizetti, Cinderella by J. Rossini, Don Carlos, Nabucco by G. Verdi, Floria Tosca, Bohemia by J.Puccini, Natalka Poltavka by M.Lysenko, choral scenes in the ballet Zorba the Greek by M. Theodorakis and Daphnis and Chloe by M.Ravel

Toured with the choir in Poland, Hungary, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, Italy, Japan and others

Cooperation:
With Ukrainian and European composers – Y.Stankovych, L.Dychko, V.Sylvestov, V.Stepurko, O.Rodin, V.Poliova, Arvo Part, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Andrew Lawrence King and others. As a conductor-choirmaster he cooperated with maestro Riccardo Muti (Ravenna Festival, Italy), maestro Kent Nagano (Hamburg State Opera, Germany), maestro Asher Fish (Bologna Municipal Theater, Italy), maestro Markus Stenz (La Fenice Opera House, Italy)

Performances

• Trionfi
• Special chamber concert

photo: Privat

Musical Direction

Luiz de Godoy

Birthplace:
Mogi das Cruzes, Brasil

Studies:
Piano at Universidade de São Paulo (Bachelor) and at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Master), Erasmus stay with focus on piano and conducting at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Diploma course conducting at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (with honors)

Prizes:
Würdigungspreis der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (2019), Scholarship from UNESCO, the European Union and the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Erwin-Ortner-Preis zur Förderung der Chormusik (2016)

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Leader Alsterspatzen since 2019/20

Repertoire:
Focus on choral symphonic repertoire (spiritual and secular oratorios; in particular Wiener Klassik and Deutsche Romantik), special relationship to performance practices of old and new music

Career stages:
conductor of the Wiener Sängerknaben (2016–2019), choir director of Chorakademie des Wiener Staatsopernchores (2016–2018), assistent of the artistic director of the Wiener Singakademie at the Wiener Konzerthaus (2015–2019), musical director of Opera Studio at Sommerfestival „ Música nas Montanhas“ in Poços de Caldas, Brasilien (2010–2012), corepeater of opera projekts at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2005–2009)

Stages:
Esplanade Singapur, Peking National Opera, Seoul Lotte Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Taiwan National Theater, Teatro Real Madrid, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein; Carinthischer Sommer, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Grafenegg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival

Cooperations with orchestras (as conductor):
Camerata Schulz, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Orquestra de la Armada de Chile, Orquestra Juvenil da Bahia, Polish Baltic Filharmonic, Schubert-Akademie Wien, Youth-Orchestra Singapur et al.

cooperations (choral rehearsal / assistance):
Berliner Philharmoniker, Les Sciècles, Mariinsky-Theaterorchester Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker et al.

Cooperations with artists:
Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Ton Koopman, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Franz Welser-Möst

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Trionfi
• Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

photo: Fernanda Nigro

Soprano

Nicole Chevalier

Birthplace:
Tampa, Florida, USA

Studies:
Music and singing with Virginia Zeani, also acting and history of literature, at Indiana University Bloomington (USA), singing with Trish McCaffrey at the Juilliard School in New York City

Prizes:
German Theatre Prize DER FAUST (2016, category "Singer-Actress Musical Theatre", on the occasion of The Four Female Leads in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" in Barrie Kosky's production at the Komische Oper Berlin)

Important parts:
Semele (Semele), Elettra (Idomeneo), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Maria Stuarda (Maria Stuarda), Violetta Valery (La Traviata), Antonia, Giulietta, Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Helena (Die Schöne Helena), Eva (Meistersinger), Medea (Reimann’s Medea), et al.

Stages:
Festival d’Aix, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Staatsoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Leipzig, National Opera Athens, La Monnaie Brussels, Teatro Real Madrid, ENO Coliseum London, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, et al.

Cooperations with directors:
Calixto Bieito, Richard Jones, Peter Konwitschny, Barrie Kosky, Christoph Marthaler, Laurent Pelly, Benedikt von Peter, Peter Sellars, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Krzysztof Warlikowski, et al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Teodor Currentzis, Titus Engel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Manfred Honeck, Karen Kamensek, Kent Nagano, Raphaël Pichon, Ivan Repušić, Jérémie Rhorer, Stefan Soltész, et al.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Doris Spiekermann-Klaas

Soprano

Sandra Hamaoui

Birthplace:
New York City, NY, US

Studies:
Bachelor of Music degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2015,
Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division

Prizes:
National Semi-Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions,
First place winner in the New England Regional Finals,
Top Prize, Audience Favorite, Irene Patti Memorial Award from Florida Grand Opera's Young Patronesses of The Opera Competition,
Scholarships from Fondation des Treilles, The Opera Foundation, The Schuyler Foundation, and the Henry & Maria Holt Memorial Fund

Important parts:
Lisa (La Sonnambula), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Ninette (L'amour des trois oranges), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), Constance (Les Dialogues des Carmèlites), Sophie (Werther), Juliette (Romeo and Juliette), et al.

Stages:
Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, et al.

Cooperations with directors:
Rolando Villazon, et al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Riccardo Frizza, et al.

Find further information about Sandra Hamaoui here.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Trionfi

photo: Thomas Erlank

Tenor

Oleksiy Palchykov

Birthplace:
Kiev, Ukraine

Studies:
At the Vocal Faculty of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris

Prizes:
Grand Prix of the XVI International Lydia Abramova Vocal Student’s Competition “Bella voce” in Moscow, special prize of the Jury at the International Vocal Competition “Debut” in Wiekersheim, Prix Lyrique du Carpeaux, Prix Lyrique de L'AROP, finalist of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2017/18

Important parts:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Alfredo (La Traviata), Fenton (Falstaff), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Paris (La belle Hélène), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Cassio (Otello), Narraboth (Salome), Beppe (Pagliacci), Sinowi (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Lykow (The Tsar’s Bride), Gritsko (Sorochintsi Fair), Kudryash (Katia Kabanova), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), et al.

Stages:
The Lyon Opera house, Opera Bastille, Opera Garnier, Athénée-Théâtre, Opernhaus Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Edinburg International Festival, Garsington Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Champs Elysees Theatre, National Opera of Monpellier, National Opera of Ukraine, M. Dzhalil Tatar Academic State Opera, Chaliapin Festival, Le Théâtre du Léman, Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, et al.

Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker,
Renaud Doucet/André Barbe, Mariame Clement, William Kentridge, Christophe Perton, Àlex Ollé, Laurent Pelly, Olivier Py, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Nello Santi, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Visiliy Petrenko, Michael Schønwandt, Riccardo Frizza, Kazushi Ono, Paolo Carignani, Alessandro De Marchi, Daniele Callegari, Henrik Nánási, Vakclav Luks, et al.

Find further information about Oleksiy Palchykov here.

Performances

• Trionfi
• La clemenza di Tito
• La Traviata

photo: Antonia Sievierova

Jake Arditti

Birthplace:
London, UK

Studies:
BMus - Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Mperf and Opera Diploma - Royal College of Music

Prizes:
Finalist and special prize winner at the Cesti Competition

Important parts:
Title role (Rinaldo, Handel), Title role (Serse, Handel), Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi), David (Saul, Handel), Adone (Venere e Adone, Salvatore Sciarrino), Erissena (Alessandro nell’India, Vinci), Nerone (Agrippina, Handel), Sesto (Giulio Cesare, Handel) Prince Go-Go (Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti).

Stages:
Theater an der Wien, Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opernhaus Zurich, Festival d’Aix en Provence, Opéra National du Rhin (Strasbourg), Opéra national de Lorraine, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Lille, Opera Vlaanderen, Teatro Real (Madrid), Liceu Opera (Barcelona), Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, Internationale, Händel Festspiele Göttingen, Pinchgut Opera (Sydney)

Cooperations with directors:
Robert Carsen, Claus Guth, Mariame Clement, Calixto Bieto, Peter Konwitschny, Keith Warner, Jetske Mijnssen, Clarac & Deloeuil, Ted Huffman, Wayne McGregor.

Cooperations with conductors:
Kirill Karabits, Thomas Hengelbrock, Ivor Bolton, Christophe Rousset, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ottavio Dantone, Laurence Cummings, Stefano Montanari, Christopher Moulds, Rubén Dubrovsky.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Trionfi

photo: Clemens Tiefenthaler

Bass-baritone

Cody Quattlebaum

Birthplace:
Maryland, USA

Studies:
The Juilliard School, the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Opernhaus Zürich International Opera Studio, Dutch National Opera studio

Prizes:
Sara Tucker grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation

Important parts:
Masetto (Don Giovanni), Schaunard (La Boheme), Bhishma (Until The Lions), Ratefreund (Die Vögel), Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Larkens (La Fanciulla del West)

Stages:
Teatro Real, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National du Rhin, Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv, Dutch National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich

Cooperations with conductors:
Raphaël Pichon, Klaus Mäkelä, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Andris Nelsons, Ivor Bolton, Richard Egarr, Marc Minkowski, Laurence Cummings


Find further information about Cody Quattlebaum here.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Altin Kaftira

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.

During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.

Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.

The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.

In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.

The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• 1st Academy Concert - Program I
• 1st Academy Concert - Program II
• 1st Academy Concert - Program III
• 4th Academy Concert
• Trionfi
• Carmen
• The Times Are Racing
• 1st Philharmonic Concert
• Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
• Boris Godunov
• Special chamber concert
• Tosca
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• La clemenza di Tito
• Orchesterprobenbesuch
• 2nd Philharmonic Concert
• Don Giovanni
• Jane Eyre
• 3rd Philharmonic Concert
• Elektra
• Der Freischütz
• Luisa Miller
• La Bohème
• Slow Burn
• 4th Philharmonic Concert
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
• The Nutcracker
• New Year's Eve concert
• Der fliegende Holländer
• 5th Philharmonic Concert
• THE ART OF Lise Davidsen
• Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Manon
• 6th Philharmonic Concert
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• Mitridate, re di Ponto
• Eugene Onegin
• 7th Philharmonic Concert
• PhiSch - das Staatsorchester hautnah...
• Don Pasquale
• Rigoletto
• Maria Stuarda
• La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
• Il trovatore
• Falstaff
• 8th Philharmonic Concert
• La Traviata
• The Odyssey
• Parsifal
• Pique Dame
• Opening concert of the Hamburg International Music Festival
• Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
• Romeo and Juliet
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
• 9th Philharmonic Concert
• Salome
• National Youth Ballet
• Nijinsky
• Frühlings Erwachen
• Così fan tutte
• Le Nozze di Figaro
• 10th Philharmonic Concert
• Demian
• Nijinsky Gala L

photo: Foto: Felix Broede

Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

The chorus members appear on stage at the Hamburg State Opera in a different role almost every night. From one day to the next, they might be sailors, pilgrims or conspirators, then courtiers, hunters, the deranged or the imprisoned. In the role of crusaders in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata they travel to Jerusalem, other nights they are invited to Madama Butterfly's marriage or acclaim Prince Igor. The ladies and gentlemen of the opera chorus demonstrate their artistic prowess, their flexibility, and their love of the stage in every performance.

With a membership around 70, the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera has been one of the world’s best opera choruses for many years. The varied repertoire – almost always in the original language – is multifaceted and includes baroque operas and dramatic operas, major works by Verdi and Wagner as well as contemporary pieces. At the start of the 2013/14 season, Eberhard Friedrich took over the post of Chorus Master.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Hamburg Theatre Night
• Trionfi
• Carmen
• Tosca
• La clemenza di Tito
• Der Freischütz
• Luisa Miller
• La Bohème
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
• Der fliegende Holländer
• Manon
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• Eugene Onegin
• Don Pasquale
• Rigoletto
• Maria Stuarda
• La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
• Il trovatore
• Falstaff
• La Traviata
• Parsifal
• Pique Dame
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
• Così fan tutte
• Le Nozze di Figaro

photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke

Choir of the Liatoshynski Capella, Kyiv, Ukraine

Chor der Liatoshynski Capella, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukrainian artistic team, which is a part of the National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine. The Capella is named after the outstanding Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshinskyi. In addition to the choir, the Capella includes orchestra and early music ensemble, together more than 70 professional musicians. The chief conductor is Bogdan Plish.

The history of the Capella began in 1964 with the creation of an amateur choir by Viktor Ikonnyk. Lately the choir acquired the status of professional and in 1992 was joined by a newly created orchestra. The team got the title - Ensemble of Classical Music named after Borys Liatoshynsky, known today as Liatoshynskyi Capella.

The repertoire of the ensemble includes masterpieces of musical art from different countries, eras and styles. The Capella has a tight concert schedule, performing at the most prestigious concert venues in Kyiv, touring the cities of Ukraine and Europe. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the activity of the Capella has acquired a special meaning and an important mission - to support the spirit and mental health of Ukrainians during war time, to commemorate war victims, as well as to conduct cultural diplomacy, representing Ukraine at famous music venues around the world.

Performances

• Trionfi
• Special chamber concert

Choir

Hamburger Knabenchor

For more than fifty years, boys have discovered their love of music at Hamburg's Boys Choir. They grow up and mature with masterworks from music history that are simply part of their everyday lives, and they take many unique experiences and skills into their adult lives.

Established in 1960 as the Boys Choir of Northern Germany Radio, currently about one hundred boys and young men aged from 5 to 25 sing in Hamburg's Boys Choir. At various choral levels, they are comprehensively prepared for the choir’s demanding repertoire and active concert schedule.

The choir’s repertoire comprises both an extensive range of a capella works as well as large oratorios. Bach’s passions and Christmas Oratorio are performed annually. Other works of their core repertoire include Haydn's Creation (performed in 2019 in Tokyo), Mozart's "Mass in C-minor" and "Requiem", Schubert's Mass in E flat-major, Mendelsohns' "Elias" and "Paulus", Faure's "Requiem", Britten's "War Requiem", as well Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and "Mass".

The choir can be regularly heard performing motets in the services of Hamburg’s main protestant Church St. Nikolai, with which it is associated. These numerous performances ensure a regular fine-tuning of the choir, something that also characterizes boarding school choirs. The Hamburg Boys Choir is a regular guest of professional ensembles as well as concert halls and opera houses. Soloists from the choir have taken on the parts of the three boys in Mozart's "Magic Flute" at opera houses from Kiel and Lübeck to Lisbon. In October 2021, they sang Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" at Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Zubin Metha. The choir sang in 2022, for example with Kent Nagano and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Concert tours both in Germany and abroad are also part of the Hamburg Boys Choir's established traditions. The choir has toured in Asia several times, as well as in Argentina and several European countries. In 2022, the Choir performed in São Paulo and Vienna.

LUIZ DE GODOY
Artistic Director

Luiz de Godoy discovered his love of music at the age of five. He completed his training in piano solo, choral and orchestral conducting over several stages in Brazil, the USA, France, Germany and Austria. In 2019, he received the appreciation award from his Viennese alma mater, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He has also worked as a choral conductor for renowned ensembles such as the Vienna Singakademie and the Chorakademie of the Vienna State Opera and has worked with many greats such as Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Ton Koopman, Sir Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst and Simone Young, as well as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, among others. He made his debut as an orchestral conductor in Brazil in 2015 and subsequently conducted in several countries in Europe, Asia and South America, including the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in productions of the Hamburg State Opera.

In 2016, Luiz de Godoy was appointed Kapellmeister of the Vienna Boys' Choir, with whom he toured over 20 countries. At the same time, he was awarded the Erwin Ortner Prize for the Promotion of Choral Music. The Hamburg State Opera brought him to the Hanseatic city for the 2019/20 season and entrusted him with the direction of its children's and youth choir. Since January 2021, Luiz de Godoy has also been the artistic director of the Hamburg Boys' Choir.

Find further information about Hamburger Knabenchor here.

Performances

• Trionfi

photo: Marcelo Hernandez

Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Die Alsterspatzen bezaubern seit vielen Jahrzehnten als Lebkuchen- oder Straßenkinder, als Ministranten und Elfenchor. In der Spielzeit 2019/20 übernahm Luiz de Godoy die Leitung des Kinder- und Jugendchores der Hamburgischen Staatsoper. Die jungen Sängerinnen und Sänger stehen in Produktionen wie „Hänsel und Gretel“, „Carmen“ oder „La Bohème“ neben Ensemblemitgliedern und internationalen Gästen auf der großen Bühne der Staatsoper. Darüber hinaus sind sie mit dem Philharmonischen Staatsorchester unter anderem in der Elbphilharmonie und im Rahmen eigener Projekte in der opera stabile zu erleben.

Wir danken der Alster-Hof Melzner-Stiftung für die Unterstützung.

Find further information about Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper here.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• Trionfi
• Carmen
• Boris Godunov
• Tosca
• La Bohème
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Frühlings Erwachen

photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke