The Marschallin is relishing time with her young lover, when her cousin’s sudden arrival ignites a comic chain of events. With honour at risk, social status bartered and happiness illusive, the Marschallin accepts time cannot be stopped and she must set young love free. After opening the 2022-23 season in Brussels with Pikovaya Dama, La Monnaie / De Munt now streams Der Rosenkavalier live on OperaVision. The mystery of time resonates throughout Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s highly spiritual and nostalgic libretto, for which Richard Strauss took a step back in time to eighteenth-century Vienna. Waltzing in neoclassical style, with sublime lyricism and a refined orchestral palette, the opera looks back to the past, faded beauty, lost loves.
Vater Barré
Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.
Animal Trainer / Athlete
Alban Berg explores the power that Eros and Thanatos, in their rawest forms, have over our lives: Lulu, a femme fatale, will do anything to get ahead in a man’s world, but she ends up being destroyed.
Jupiter
그리스 신화에 등장하는 ‘오르페우스와 에우리디케’ 이야기를 풍자와 익살을 담아 재해석한 패러디이다. 유명 음악가 오르페우스와 아름다운 에우리디케는 오랜 결혼 생활 끝에 심한 권태를 느낀다. 서로 다른 사람과 바람을 피던 것이 발각되고 부부 싸움 끝에 남편이 풀어놓은 독사에 물려 에우리디케는 죽음을 맞는다. 서로에게서 작별을 하게 되어 기뻐하지만, 여론이 등장하여 오르페우스에게 죽은 아내를 저승에서 데려오는 것이 바람직하다고 충고하고, 그는 아내를 돌려받기 위해 여정을 떠난다.
Zuniga
The Animal Tamer / The Acrobat
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose lives she forever alters, are Johan Reuter as newspaper publisher Dr. Schön; Daniel Brenna as his composer son, Alwa; Paul Groves as the Painter; and Franz Grundheber as Schigolch. Susan Graham sings Countess Geschwitz, and Lothar Koenigs conducts Berg’s landmark score.
The Acrobat / The Animal Tamer
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose lives she forever alters, are Johan Reuter as newspaper publisher Dr. Schön; Daniel Brenna as his composer son, Alwa; Paul Groves as the Painter; and Franz Grundheber as Schigolch. Susan Graham sings Countess Geschwitz, and Lothar Koenigs conducts Berg’s landmark score.
