Jens Larsen
2021Wozzeck
William Kentridge, Tiziano Mancini
Matthias Goerne, John Daszak
A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge. Is there just one thing that proves to be too much for Franz Woyzeck, or is it an accumulation of miseries and torments of a wretched existence? Woyzeck is perhaps not so much a bleak account of how miserable life can be as how much strength is required to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life and how delicate and fragile a balance the human psyche rests on.
Wozzeck
Sorochintsy Fair
Barrie Kosky
Jens Larsen, Agnes Zwierko
A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not allowed to marry her lover because her quarrelsome stepmother is against it.
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)
Der Feurige Engel - Bayerische Staatsoper
Barrie Kosky
Svetlana Sozdateleva, Evgeniy Nikitin
A couple and their hallucinatory journey to the dark side of passion. Renata is driven by a longing for the consummate sexual encounter. Since her youth she has had a vision of an ecstatic conjugation with a shining angel. Ruprecht falls for Renata and follows her unreservedly on her obsessive quest to fulfil this fantasy. The couple cross the boundaries of perception, leaving behind all traces of morality or reason, until their willingness to devote body and soul completely to one another threatens to pull their previous existence apart.
Der Feurige Engel - Bayerische Staatsoper
