Credits etc from Die Tote Stadt

This is the cast list and credits for the production, and an intro from Giordano, the director of the Jyske Opera.

After the successful Danish premiere of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West (August 2009), The Danish National Opera once again presents, in August 2010, a masterpiece from the great opera repertoire that people have not previously been able to experience in Denmark: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. With its extremely expressive style the opera is a milestone in the late-romantic German opera repertoire after Wagner and Strauss. The music as well as the dramaturgy point towards the great epic movies which became the popular art form of the 20th century.
“Die tote Stadt is about the loneliness of deep sorrow, about the dark side of life when we are struck by an existential crisis where the meaning of life and death itself fills and tortures our soul. Never has this theme been more present or relevant than in our seeming welfare society”, Artistic Director Giordano Bellincampi states. Hallucinations, thrills and reality get tangled up in this surreal drama of one of the 20th century’s most breathtaking operas. “With its intense, psychological plot and ingenious music Die tote Stadt is a performance worth experiencing”,


Composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Libretto
Paul Schott (Erich Wolfgang & Julius Korngold, [Erich's papa])

Conductor
Jaroslav Kyzlink

Director and stage designer
Mikael Melbye

Projection designer
Wendall Harrington

Lighting designer
Anja Myung Hansen

Costume designer
Deirdre Clancy

Choreographer
Marie Brolin-Tani

Cast.

Paul
Torsten Kerl

Marietta, dancer / Marie's revelation
Ann Petersen

Frank, Paul's friend
Jørn Pedersen

Brigitta, Paul's housekeeper
Anette Bod

Juliette, a dancer in Marietta's troupe
Elsebeth Dreisig
Lucienne, a dancer in Marietta's troupe
Trine Bastrup Møller
Victorin, the director in Marietta's troupe
Jan Lund
Fritz / Pierrot in Marietta's troupe
Daniel Hällström
Count Albert
Jens Krogsgaard
Gaston - a dancer
Ahmad Salhi

Kor
The Chorus of the Danish National Opera
Orkester
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra