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Jakob Lenz: Festival d’Aix‐en‐Provence

About the Event

Andrea Breth comes to the Festival of Aix‐en‐Provence and offers 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.

Cast / Production

Musical Direction — Ingo Metzmacher

Staging — Andrea Breth

Set Design — Martin Zehetgruber

Costumes — Eva Dessecker

Lights — Alexander Koppelmann

Lenz — Georg Nigl

Oberlin — James Platt

Kaufmann — John Daszak

Soprano 1 — Josefin Feiler

Soprano 2 — Olga Heikkilä

Alto 1 — Sabrina Kögel

Alto 2 — Beth Taylor

Basse 1 — Dominic Große

Basse 2 — Eric Ander

Orchestre — Ensemble Modern

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