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CONDUCTOR – Jonathan Darlington
DIRECTOR – Josef Gielen
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN – Tsugouharu Foujita

Cio-cio-san, genannt – Butterfly Kristīne Opolais
B.F.Pinkerton – Ivan Magrì
Sharpless – Paolo Rumetz

US-American Lieutenant Pinkerton marries Cio-Cio-San, but only for a short time; a commonly accepted convention at this time. Whilst for him it was but a fleeting affair, for her, it was true love. After his departure, she waits longingly for his return. When he finally reappears, Cio-Cio-San – the mother of his child – realises that he has remarried. Out of utter desperation, she kills herself: “He who can no longer live an honorable life must die honorably”.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreographie Pina Bausch
Set Design & Costume Design Pina Bausch, Jürgen Dreier
Choir Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Iphigenie N.N.
Thoas Markus Marquardt
Orest Sebastian Wartig
Pylades Joseph Dennis

In 1974 Pina Bausch created her dance-opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« to the music of the opera of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Accompanied by live singers and musicians, she employed her intensive and impulsive physical vocabulary to brilliantly interpret the story of the Greek princess Iphigenie, who serves as a priestess to Diana on the island of Tauris, and who is required to sacrifice her own brother – believed to be lost – to the goddess.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreographie Pina Bausch
Set Design & Costume Design Pina Bausch, Jürgen Dreier
Choir Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Iphigenie N.N.
Thoas Markus Marquardt
Orest Sebastian Wartig
Pylades Joseph Dennis

In 1974 Pina Bausch created her dance-opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« to the music of the opera of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Accompanied by live singers and musicians, she employed her intensive and impulsive physical vocabulary to brilliantly interpret the story of the Greek princess Iphigenie, who serves as a priestess to Diana on the island of Tauris, and who is required to sacrifice her own brother – believed to be lost – to the goddess.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreographie Pina Bausch
Set Design & Costume Design Pina Bausch, Jürgen Dreier
Choir Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Iphigenie N.N.
Thoas Markus Marquardt
Orest Sebastian Wartig
Pylades Joseph Dennis

In 1974 Pina Bausch created her dance-opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« to the music of the opera of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Accompanied by live singers and musicians, she employed her intensive and impulsive physical vocabulary to brilliantly interpret the story of the Greek princess Iphigenie, who serves as a priestess to Diana on the island of Tauris, and who is required to sacrifice her own brother – believed to be lost – to the goddess.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreographie Pina Bausch
Set Design & Costume Design Pina Bausch, Jürgen Dreier
Choir Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Iphigenie N.N.
Thoas Markus Marquardt
Orest Sebastian Wartig
Pylades Joseph Dennis

In 1974 Pina Bausch created her dance-opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« to the music of the opera of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Accompanied by live singers and musicians, she employed her intensive and impulsive physical vocabulary to brilliantly interpret the story of the Greek princess Iphigenie, who serves as a priestess to Diana on the island of Tauris, and who is required to sacrifice her own brother – believed to be lost – to the goddess.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreographie Pina Bausch
Set Design & Costume Design Pina Bausch, Jürgen Dreier
Choir Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Iphigenie N.N.
Thoas Markus Marquardt
Orest Sebastian Wartig
Pylades Joseph Dennis

In 1974 Pina Bausch created her dance-opera »Iphigenie auf Tauris« to the music of the opera of the same name by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Accompanied by live singers and musicians, she employed her intensive and impulsive physical vocabulary to brilliantly interpret the story of the Greek princess Iphigenie, who serves as a priestess to Diana on the island of Tauris, and who is required to sacrifice her own brother – believed to be lost – to the goddess.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.

Conductor Jonathan Darlington
Choreography Adam Cooper
Choir Cornelius Volke
Dramaturgy Kai Weßler
Großherzogin Anne Schwanewilms
Prince Paul Daniel Prohaska
Fritz Maximilian Mayer
Wanda Katerina von Bennigsen
General Bumm Martin Winkler
Baron Puck Jürgen Müller
Baron Grog Martin-Jan Nijhof
Erusine von Nepumukka Sigrid Hauser

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein loves men in smart uniforms. Although her duchy is really much too insignificant for war, the Grand Duchess loves to blow the trumpet to ready the fit soldiers for attack. She is particularly fond of the simple soldier Fritz, whom she quickly promotes from private to general – but, just as fast, he slips back down the career ladder. Jacques Offenbach’s cheeky comedy »The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein« will be directed at the Semperoper by Josef E. Köpplinger, a specialist for entertaining musical theatre.