La Traviata

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Melodramma in 3 acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novelle
„La dame aux camélias“ by Alexandre Dumas fils
First performed on 6. March, 1853 in Venice
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 20. November, 1999


Recommended from 13 years on


In Italian with German and English surtitles


2 hrs 45 mins / 1 interval

Program and cast

Conductor: Ido Arad
Director: Götz Friedrich
Stage-design: Frank Philipp Schlößmann
Costume-design: Klaus Bruns
Lighting: Ulrich Niepel
Chorus Master: Thomas Richter
Choreographer: Klaus Beelitz
Violetta Valéry: Mané Galoyan
Alfredo Germont: Giovanni Sala
Giorgio Germont: Thomas Lehman
Flora Bervoix: Arianna Manganello
Annina: Alexandra Hutton
Gaston: Gideon Poppe
Baron Douphol: Michael Bachtadze
Marquis D'Obigny: Philipp Jekal
Doktor Grenvil: Andrew Harris
Giuseppe: Patrick Cook
A messenger: N. N.
A servant: N. N.
Chorus: Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

From 21.12

CAST

Conductor

Ivan Repusic

Director

Götz Friedrich

Stage-design

Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Costume-design

Klaus Bruns

Lighting

Ulrich Niepel

Chorus Master

Thomas Richter

Choreographer

Klaus Beelitz

Violetta Valéry

Aida Garifullina

Alfredo Germont

Pene Pati

Giorgio Germont

Thomas Lehman

Flora Bervoix

Arianna Manganello

Annina

Alexandra Hutton

Gaston

Ya-Chung Huang

Baron Douphol

Michael Bachtadze

Marquis D'Obigny

Dean Murphy

Doktor Grenvil

Gerard Farreras

Giuseppe

Chance Jonas-O'Toole

A messenger

Kyle Miller

A servant

Holger Gerberding

Chorus

Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.

The company's history goes back to the Deutsches Opernhaus built by the then independent city of Charlottenburg—the "richest town of Prussia"—according to plans designed by Heinrich Seeling from 1911. It opened on November 7, 1912 with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, conducted by Ignatz Waghalter. After the incorporation of Charlottenburg by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act, the name of the resident building was changed to Städtische Oper (Municipal Opera) in 1925.

 

Deutsches Opernhaus, 1912
With the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, the opera was under control of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Minister Joseph Goebbels had the name changed back to Deutsches Opernhaus, competing with the Berlin State Opera in Mitte controlled by his rival, the Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring. In 1935, the building was remodeled by Paul Baumgarten and the seating reduced from 2300 to 2098. Carl Ebert, the pre-World War II general manager, chose to emigrate from Germany rather than endorse the Nazi view of music, and went on to co-found the Glyndebourne opera festival in England. He was replaced by Max von Schillings, who acceded to enact works of "unalloyed German character". Several artists, like the conductor Fritz Stiedry or the singer Alexander Kipnis followed Ebert into emigration. The opera house was destroyed by a RAF air raid on 23 November 1943. Performances continued at the Admiralspalast in Mitte until 1945. Ebert returned as general manager after the war.

After the war, the company in what was now West Berlin used the nearby building of the Theater des Westens until the opera house was rebuilt. The sober design by Fritz Bornemann was completed on 24 September 1961. The opening production was Mozart's Don Giovanni. The new building opened with the current name.

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