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