Das Wunder der Heliane

© 2018, Ruth Tromboukis
© 2018, Ruth Tromboukis
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Brian Jagde als Fremder, Sara Jakubiak als Heliane, Josef Wagner als Herrscher
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Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane
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Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Okka von der Damerau as Die Botin, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Okka von der Damerau as Die Botin, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher, Burkhard Ulrich as Der blinde Schwertrichter, Okka von der Damerau as Die Botin
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Brian Jagde as Der Fremde, Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher et al.
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Brian Jagde as Der Fremde, Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher, Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Staged by Christof Loy
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Staged by Christof Loy
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Brian Jagde as Der Fremde
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Okka von der Damerau as Die Botin et al.
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Sara Jakubiak as Heliane
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Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher, Gideon Poppe as Der junge Mann
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Brian Jagde as Der Fremde, Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher, Derek Welton as Der Pförtner
© 2018, Monika Rittershaus
Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
© 2018, Monika Rittershaus
Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Gideon Poppe as Der junge Mann et al.
© 2018, Monika Rittershaus
Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Josef Wagner as Der Herrscher
© 2018, Monika Rittershaus
Brian Jagde as Der Fremde, Sara Jakubiak as Heliane, Derek Welton as Der Pförtner

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957)

Fri 06.04.2018 / 19:30 h / C-Prices: € 95,– / 76,– / 53,– / 29,– / tickets / Last performance this season

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen, based on Hans Kaltneker's „Die Heilige“
First performed on 7th October 1927 at the Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 18th March 2018

In German with German and English surtitles

3 hrs 15 mins / 1 interval

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

Sun 18. March 2018, 18.00 h / D-Prices: € 128,– / 94,– / 67,– / 39,– / tickets / Subscription: P

Thu 22. March 2018, 19.30 h / B-Prices: € 79,– / 59,– / 39,– / 22,– / tickets / Subscription: NP, WM, R, D

Fri 30. March 2018, 18.00 h / C-Prices: € 95,– / 76,– / 53,– / 29,– / tickets / Subscription: NP, R, D

Sun 01. April 2018, 18.00 h / C-Prices: € 95,– / 76,– / 53,– / 29,– / tickets / Subscription: NP, S, R, D

Fri 06. April 2018, 19.30 h / C-Prices: € 95,– / 76,– / 53,– / 29,– / tickets / Subscription: NP, R, D

Conductor

Stage direction

Set design

Costume design

Light design

Chorus Master

Dramaturge

Dorothea Hartmann
Thomas Jonigk

Heliane

Sara Jakubiak

The ruler, her husband

The stranger

The messenger

The doorman

The blind judge

The young man

The six judges

Andrew Dickinson
Dean Murphy
Thomas Florio
Clemens Bieber
Philipp Jekal
Stephen Bronk

2 seraphic voices

Sandra Hamaoui
Meechot Marrero

Chorus

Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

The Concert Programme

Erich Wolfgang Korngold spoke of this work as his “masterpiece”. HELIANE’S MIRACLE bears all the hallmarks of Korngold’s musical theatre - and goes one step further in scale, with a huge score and orchestra, intoxicating pathos and exquisitely expressive harmonies that play with polytonality - resulting in a gripping and sensuous drama. The world premiere in Hamburg in 1927 was a triumph, with more than a dozen houses booking the latest work by Korngold, at the time the second most performed composer of opera after Richard Strauss. In 1928 the work was presented at the Städtische Oper Berlin, with Bruno Walter directing, but here, as at other venues, the reception was cool, due in part to intrigues, in part to the charge that his Late Romantic score was behind the times. With the Jewish Korngold prevented by the Nazis from presenting his works to the public, HELIANE’S MIRACLE vanished from the repertoire, never to return. This is a timeless fairy tale portraying a cold ruler incapable of loving anyone, his wife Heliane, devoted to a Dionysian stranger, and a people waiting for a redemptory miracle to occur.

A precise psychological analysis of a work’s protagonists is what interests director Christof Loy, who is returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin after stints here presenting JENUFA, FALSTAFF and EDWARD II. And it falls to Marc Albrecht, for many years a close collaborator with the opera house, to waken Korngold’s grand and opulent music from decades of slumber.

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