FULL Berlin Alexanderplatz: Ein Roman wird Oper (Bhatti) Documentary Germany 2022
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Berlin Alexanderplatz: Ein Roman wird Oper
- Composer: Bhatti Vivan, Bhatti Ketan
- Libretto: Christiane Neudecker based on the novel by Alfred Döblin
- Venue & Opera Company: Theater Bielefeld
- Recorded: 2022
- Type: Other
- Singers: Evgueniy Alexiev, Lorin Wey, Veronika Lee, Thomas Wolff, Moon Soo Park, Franziska Hösli
- Conductor: Anne Hinrichsen
- Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
- Chorus: Bielefeder Opernchor
- Choreographer: Sommer Ulrickson
- Stage Director: Wolfgang Nägele
- Stage Designer: Okarina Peter, Timo Dentler
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: WDR Klassik, ARTE
- TV Director: Axel Fuhrmann
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: ARD FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The prison gates close behind Franz Biberkopf. He is free! He has served his sentence for manslaughter behind these walls for four years. And now? He has made up his mind: he wants to remain decent, to be an honest middle-class citizen. But how does one find his feet in a hectic, pulsating, constantly growing city when the orderly prison routine has almost become his home? The independent life as a free man is too much for Franz; there are too many impressions, too many noises, too many people. He makes the wrong friends, loses his new love and is drawn ever deeper into a maelstrom of crime, betrayal and violence. And the city around him changes its face…
With Berlin Alexanderplatz, published in 1929, Alfred Döblin wrote a key work of modernism and one of the first urban novels ever. Therefore, it was not the antihero Franz Biberkopf, but the city of Berlin with one of its most lively and chaotic squares that gave the book its name. This polyphony of a metropolis has already been adapted several times for stage, film and radio; now the multifaceted material will be experienced for the first time as a cross-genre musical theater. Not only the individuals, but also the background noise of the city are given their own voice in the libretto by Christiane Neudecker and are transformed by the composers Vivan and Ketan Bhatti into an urban sound that captures various sound worlds from 1920s hits to contemporary music. The city sings, speaks and dances.
Quoted from Theater Bielefeld