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    Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz: La Monnaie

Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz: La Monnaie

About the Event

Andrea Breth returns to La Monnaie for a loyal staged interpretation of Wolfgang Rihm's deeply moving work. One of the most acclaimed chamber operas of the 20th century, Jakob Lenz is based on Georg Büchner’s novella about the German poet's unavoidable decline into madness.

‘I want to move and be moved. Everything about music is moving,’ these are the words in which Wolfgang Rihm once stated his musical credo. His chamber opera Jakob Lenz has in the meantime become one of the most frequently performed works in the 20th century German opera repertoire.

Musical direction: Franck Ollu
Stage direction: Andrea Breth
Set design: Martin Zehetgruber
Costumes: Eva Dessecker
Lights: Alexander Koppelmann
Dramaturgy: Sergio Morabito

Lenz: Georg Nigl
Oberlin: Henry Waddington
Kaufmann: John Graham‐Hall
Sopranos: Irma Mihelic, Olga Heikkilä
Altos: Sabrina Kögel, Stine Marie Fischer
Basses: Dominic Große, Eric Ander

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

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