Staatsoper Hamburg - Stück-Besetzung: Gustav Mahler

Musikalische Leitung und Einrichtung

Johannes Harneit

Conductor and composer

Johannes Harneit

Birthplace:
Hamburg, Germany

Studies:
Composition and music theory with György Ligeti at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Conducting with Klauspeter Seibel at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Assistance with Sergiu Celibidache in München

Prizes and scholarships:
1st prize “Internationaler Kompositionswettbewerb Hitzacker” (1986), composition scholarship Schloss Solitude Stuttgart (one-year scholarship 1990), “Composer in Residence” festival “Spannungen” in Heimbach (2000), “Composer in Residence” festival “Heidelberger Frühling” Heidelberg (2002), “Performance of the Year” (Opernwelt) for “Al gran sole carico d´amore” by Luigi Nono – musical director/conductor at the Staatsoper Hannover (2003), “Artist in Residence” Cantiere Internationale d´Arte di Montepulciano (2003), “World Premiere of the Year” (Opernwelt) for “i OPAL – Große Oper” by Hans-Joachim Hespos – musical director/conductor at the Staatsoper Hannover (2005), “Komponist für Heidelberg” Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2014/2015)

Repertoire music theatre / important works:
Lulu / Wozzeck (Alban Berg), Carmen (Georges Bizet), Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti), König Hirsch (Hans Werner Henze), Die Sache Makropulos (Leoš Janáček), Die lustige Witwe (Franz Lehár), Saint François d´Assise (Oliver Messiaen), Die Krönung der Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi), Don Giovanni / Die Zauberflöte / Entführung aus dem Serail (Wolfgang A. Mozart), Al gran sole carico d´amore / Prometeo (Luigi Nono), Hoffmanns Erzählungen (Jacques Offenbach), La Boheme / Tosca / Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini), L´heure espagnole (Maurice Ravel), Lear (Aribert Reimann), Jakob Lenz (Wolfgang Rihm), Il Barbiere di Siviglia / La Cenerentola (Gioacchino Rossini), Pierrot Lunaire (Arnold Schönberg), Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss), Salome (Richard Strauss), Eugen Onegin (Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski), Aida / Macbeth / Nabucco / La Traviata / Don Carlos / Ein Maskenball (Giuseppe Verdi), Der fliegende Holländer (Richard Wagner), Die Soldaten (Bernd Alois Zimmermann), et al.

Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Opernhaus Leipzig, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Bremen, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Wuppertaler Bühnen, Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach, Alte Oper Frankfurt, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theater Heidelberg, Edinburgh International Festival, Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater Chur, Nationaltheater Belgrad, Teatro Poliziano Montepulciano, Teatro la Fenice Venedig, Theatro Alighieri Ravenna, Schauspielhaus Graz, et al.

Compositions:
Orchestral works, chamber and vocal music (about 100 compositions) as well as music theatre, chamber operas and 4 major operas: IchundIch (after “IchundIch” by Else Lasker-Schüler, commissioned by the Staatsoper Hamburg, premiere 2019 at the Hamburgische Staatsoper directed by Christian von Treskow, composed 2016–2019), Alice im Wunderland (after “Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen, premiere 2015 at Theater Gera under the direction of Cornelia Poppe, composed 2012–2015), Abends am Fluss / Zwei Koffer im Keller – ein Opern-Doppelabend (based on texts by Gero Troike, commissioned by Leipzig Opera 2012, premiere 2015 at Heidelberg Theatre directed by Peter Konwitschny, composed 2009–2012), PYM (after “The Narrative of Arthur Gorden Pym of Nantucket” by Edgar Allan Poe, composed 1994–2000)

Collaboration with orchestras and ensembles:
Staatsorchester Darmstadt, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sinfonietta Leipzig, Staatskapelle Weimar, Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, Wuppertaler Sinfonieorchester, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, Neue Philharmonie NRW, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Münchner Kammerorchester, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, Scharoun-Ensemble Berlin, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Ensemble Oriol Berlin, Ensemble Phönix (Schweiz), Ensemble Zürich (Schweiz), Orchester le phénix (Schweiz), Minnesota Orchestra (USA), Belgrade Symphony Orchestra (Serbien), Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgarien), Radiosinfonieorchester Budapest (Ungarn), Cairo Symphony Orchestra (Ägypten), Dänisches Rundfunkorchester Kopenhagen, et al.

Performances

Darsteller:in

Magne Håvard Brekke

Darsteller:in

Kady Evanyshyn

Mezzo-Soprano

Kady Evanyshyn

Birthplace:
Winnipeg, Canada

Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music, The Juilliard School

Awards/Competitions:
First Prize of the New Orleans District and Second Prize of the Gulf Coast Region at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2023), Award from the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition (2017/18), Winner of the John Erskine Prize at The Juilliard School (2017) and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival (2015)

Masterclasses:
Lioba Braun, Brigitte Fassbänder, Elena Garanča, Thomas Hampson, Malcom Martineau, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bo Skovhus, Emmanuel Villaume, and others

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Was member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2022/23

Important parts:
Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Siébel (Faust), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercédès (Carmen), Meg Page (Falstaff), Tisbé (La Cenerentola), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), Fjodor (Boris Godunov), Frau Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), and others

Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Bregenzer Festspiele, Carnegie Hall, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Verbier Festival, Aspen Music Festival

Song:
World Premiere of “Drei Grabschriften” (Stefano Gervasoni), Performances of “Animus II” (Druckman), “Folk Songs” (Berio) and “Liebeslieder Walzer” (Brahms), Competitor of the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition

Cooperation with Directors:
Edward Berkeley, Frank Castorf, Georges Delnon, James Darrah, Axel Ransich, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Jana Vetten, Stephen Wadsworth

Cooperation with Conductors:
Nicolas André, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Daniele Callegari, William Christie, Jane Glover, Alexander Joel, Francesco Lanzillotta, Claire Levacher, Jeffrey Milarsky, Evelino Pidò, Teddy Poll, Avi Stein, Stephen Stubbs

Find further information about Kady Evanyshyn here.

Performances

photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

Darsteller:in

Ueli Jaeggi

Darsteller:in

Rosemary Hardy

Klavier

Bendix Dethleffsen

Kinderchor

Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Orchester

Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters 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, Sir Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev 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. 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 undertook a successful three-week concert tour in South America, a tour of Spain followed in 2019. 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 at ECM.

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

photo: Foto: Felix Broede