Moses und Aron: Komische Oper Berlin

About the Event

The Komische Oper Berlin presents Arnold Schönberg's opus magnum "Moses and Aron", staged by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Ideas or deeds? Thoughts or images? Schönberg’s opera is anything but a dry piece about abstract religious concepts. It is a gripping musical drama about mankind’s never‐ending search for something greater, and the insatiable human longing for the "land of milk and honey". The fact that this piece had to remain unfinished may possibly be explained by the theme of the work itself. It is not only the contradiction between Moses, the man of ideas, and his brother Aaron, the man of words and images, which is ultimately irreconcilable. In the final analysis, the eternal search for the Promised Land must also remain unfulfilled, for Schönberg himself, for the Jewish people and by extension for mankind as a whole.

Opera in two acts (1957). Text by the composer.

Crew
Vladimir Jurowski, musical direction
Barrie Kosky, staging
Klaus Grünberg, stage design and light
Klaus Bruns, costume design
Ulrich Lenz, dramaturgy
David Cavelius, choir

Cast
Moses: Robert Hayward
Aron: Andreas Conrad
A Young Maiden / 1. Naked Virgin: Julia Giebel
A Youth: Adrian Strooper
Another Man / Ephraimite: Tom Erik Lie
Naked youth: Michael Pflumm
Sick Woman / 3. Naked Virgin: Karolina Gumos