Duration96 Min
Production Date: 30/03/2019
Duration96 Min
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At the glittering court of Spain, a young princess is given a misshapen dwarf as a birthday gift. But even the smallest heart can be broken, and Zemlinsky's operatic re-telling of Oscar Wilde's fable draws on his own hopeless love for the future Alma Mahler. The result is one of the most wrenching (and beautiful) of late Romantic German operas, and Tobias Kratzer's striking, psychologically complex updating for the Deutsche Oper Berlin peels away its layers of fantasy, autobiography and allegory to devastating emotional effect. Conductor Donald Runnicles brings all his mastery and insight to Zemlinsky's ravishing score.
- Soloists:
- Elena Tsallagova (Soprano), Philipp Jekal (Baritone), Emily Magee (Soprano), Flurina Stucki (Soprano), Amber Fasquelle (Soprano), Maiju Vaahtoluoto (Mezzo-Soprano), So Young Park (Soprano), Kristina Häger (Soprano), David Butt Philip (Tenor)
- Ensembles:
- Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- Conductor:
- Sir Donald Runnicles
