FULL Simplicius Simplicissimus (Hartmann) Mannheim 2021 Kessler Stoughton Eikötter
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Simplicius Simplicissimus
- Composer: Hartmann Karl Amadeus
- Libretto: Wolfgang Petzet, Karl Amadeus Hartmann based on Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany
- Recorded: May 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Astrid Kessler, Jonathan Stoughton, Uwe Eikötter, Thomas Berau, Marcel Brunner, Thomas Jesatko
- Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
- Orchestra: Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim
- Chorus: Opernchor des Nationaltheater Mannheim
- Chorus Master: Dani Juris
- Choreographer: Teresa Rotemberg
- Stage Director: Markus Dietz
- Stage Designer: Mayke Hegger
- Costume Designer: Mayke Hegger
- Lighting Designer: Florian Arnholdt
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Nationaltheater Mannheim
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: mail.ru FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A young person named Simplicius Simplicissimus goes alone into a world marked by destruction, violence and mistrust. Simplicius observes and asks uncomfortable questions in order to understand suffering and inhumanity around him. Based on the baroque novel by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen from 1669, the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann wrote his chamber opera “Simplicius Simplicissimus” from 1934 to 1935. It is set in the middle of the Thirty Years’ War, but at the time it pointed to the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship and made Hartmann’s anti-fascist standpoint clear. Due to censorship and Hartmann’s decision to emigrate internally, »Simplicius Simplicissimus« could only be premiered in Germany after the end of World War II, in 1948. The revised second version for large orchestra was performed for the first time in 1957 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Director Markus Dietz, who most recently staged »Peter Grimes« on the NTM, brings Hartmann’s work into the present and questions what a destroyed world does to the people living in it. The second version of “Simplicius Simplicissimus” will be performed in a version for chamber orchestra under the musical direction of Johannes Kalitzke