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Salome
OPERA in one act, by Richard Strauss. Libretto Oscar Wilde's drama, translated by Hedwig Lachmann. Directed by Peter Konwitschny. .
Premiere 10 September 2011
Since its first performance, the opera, Salome, has had an aura of scandalous success, where the catastrophe is anticipated from the very first chord. The young Salome is rejected by John the Baptist and demands his head on a plate from her stepfather Herod as a reward for her dancing. The ecstatic final scene takes the breath of both the public and the singer away and Oscar Wilde's text is steaming with decadence and lust. This is a co-production with De Nederlandse Opera and our own Annalena Persson sings the title role. The legendary director, Peter Konwitschny, will be directing.
West Side Story
MUSICAL Based on a concept by Jerome Robbins. Script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein. Song lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Stina Ancker. Performed in Swedish.
Premiere 17 September 2011.
West Side Story is called ”the best musical in the world”. It is about the two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, and the forbidden love of Tony and Maria. The classic hit songs were written by Leonard Bernstein. In an ingenious way, the big dance numbers move the plot forward. Our production is directed by Stina Ancker, who has taken the timelessness of the drama into consideration. Nick Davies and Finn Rosengren are directing. In the principal parts, we will see the new promising talents, Sofie Asplund and Bruno Mitsogiannis
Leinonen/Franzén/Zappalà
DANCE Three-part dance programme by Susanna Leinonen, Helena Franzén and Roberto Zappalà.
World premier 14 October 2011.
Three choreographers and three world premiers for totally newly written music. Susanna Leinonen is based in Helsinki and her style is described as ambitious, bright and polished with thousands of details. The music for her new work was created by Kasperi Lane.
In a review, DN wrote the following about Helena Franzén: "Few Swedish choreographers are so generous, stimulatingly witty and physically intelligent". Her new work is called Fading. Music by Jukka Rintamäki.
Roberto Zappalà is artistic director of Zappalà Danza in Sicily. His new work Sud-virus (South virus) is an ironic observation of how the south can be seen as a virus of the north. The music by Puccio Castrogiovanni is played live.
Tosca
OPERA in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Directed by Lorenzo Mariani.
Premiere 19 November 2011.
In the Tosca opera classic, beautiful Puccini melodies meet a thriller-like plot where love and jealousy, passion and violent and sudden deaths are given a free rein. It is about the singer, Floria Tosca, who is in love with the artist, Mario Cavaradossi – and about the police chief, Scarpia, who, in turn, also wants Tosca. The three principal characters are all based on historical models. We see and hear the well-reputed singer, Ingela Brimberg, as Tosca, Tomas Lind as Cavaradossi and Anders Lorentzson as Baron Scarpia.
Lady Macbeth från Mzensk
OPERA in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich. Libretto Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexander Preiss. Directed by Graham Vick.
Premiere 4 February 2012.
Shostakovich's dramatic opera was a success at its premier in Leningrad in 1934. Two years later, Stalin saw the performance and the production was banned. The opera is about the rich man's wife, Katerina Ismailova, who falls in love with the workman, Sergei. She poisons her father-in-law, assists in murdering her husband and is deported to a prison camp. International soprano, Gitta-Maria Sjöberg from Western Sweden, plays the title role, Sergei is sung by Pär Lindskog and father-in-law Boris by Mats Almgren. The British director, Graham Vick, famous for his innovative staging makes his Swedish production debut.
noBody
DANCE WORK by Sasha Waltz. Music by Hans Peter Kuhn.
Premiere 25 February 2012.
Sasha Waltz is one of the absolutely greatest choreographers in contemporary dance. We are very proud to produce her well-known work, noBody, for the first time in Gothenburg. noBody discusses ideas and feelings about our mortality and asks what the immortal in us actually is. The title means both "no body" and "nobody". The dancers move in magical flowing formations and complex patterns in a magnificent, poetic and moving production.
Lucrezia Borgia
OPERA in prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Felice Romani following Victor Hugo's drama. Directed by Christof Loy.
Premier 31 March 2012.
With Lucrezia Borgia, we are continuing the bel-canto line, along with director Giancarlo Andretta. The production is full of singing and the story is full of intrigue. The heroine, Lucrezia Borgia, is a notorious poisoner who falls in love with a young man, who turns out to be her own son. The director, Christer Loy, is one of the great European directors (he previously directed Arabella and Faust with us) and he focuses on Lucrezia Borgia's different guises. The title role is sung by the Russian, Katja Levin. We will hear Bülent Bezdüz as the son, Gennaro.
