FULL Opernwerkstatt Mahler Szenen aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn Biel 2023

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Opernwerkstatt Mahler Szenen aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn  
• Composer: Mahler Gustav  
• Libretto: Clemens Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn  
• Venue & Opera Company: Theater Biel, Switzerland  
• Recorded: March 8, 2023
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: Simon S. Burkhalter, Gabriel De Jesus, Fabio Dorizzi, Anna Beatriz Gomes, Eszter Gyüdi, Raίsa Ierone, Gülden Kavakli, Alexandra Lewis, Ian Sherwood, Yuliia Sukhovych
• Conductor: Mladen Tarbuk  
• Orchestra: Musikakademie Zagreb  
• Stage Director: Mathias Behrends  
• Stage Designer: Mathias Behrends  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Schweizer Opernstudio, Hochschule der Künste Bern  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Inspired by the idea of showing music by Gustav Mahler on the opera stage, although Mahler did not compose any stage works, songs from his musical cosmos «Des Knaben Wunderhorn» are staged. As always, the main actors in this scenic-musical interpretation are the students in the Opera Master of the Swiss Opera Studio. On the orchestra stage, on the other hand, students from the University of Zagreb will play in a chamber orchestra formation for the first time thanks to a collaboration with the University of Zagreb. This opera production is made possible, realized and jointly developed as part of an international cooperation between students and universities (arrangements by Prof. Mladen Tarbuk). We are also setting an example for international understanding, international exchange and mutual rapprochement between two music colleges that are 1000km apart: quasi «ERASMUS live».

From a scenic point of view, this is a very unusual theater experience: the theater is “turned upside down”, the audience surprisingly takes a seat on the stage and the action, the scenic play, is moved to the audito