That’s it for my witchy! Tomorrow we start staging of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in the morning, and Weinbergs’s Kain und Abel in the evening. Crazy, but fun crazy!
That’s it for my witchy! Tomorrow we start staging of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in the morning, and Weinbergs’s Kain und Abel in the evening. Crazy, but fun crazy!
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15 minutes till my last Hänsel und Gretel! (There’s one more on March 6, with the wonderful Katrin Gerstenberger as Hexe.)
#opera #HänselUndGretel #Humperdinck #Darmstadt #operaSinger
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
🗓️ Feb. 15
🕓 16:00
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
Gretel: Ofeliya Pogosyan
Hänsel: Lena Sutor-Wernich
Vater: Johannes Martin Kränzle
Mutter: Solgerd Isalv
Hexe: Megan Marie Hart
Sandmännchen/
Taumännchen: Aki Hashimoto
Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Alessandro Palumbo
Director: Nicola Raab
Stage & Video design: Danila Travin
Costumes: Lisa Moro
Dramaturg: Stefan Czura
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/haensel-gretel.2034
#opera #HänselUndGretel #Humperdinck #Darmstadt #Hessen #operaSinger #Hexe
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🧹 10 minutes till Hänsel und Gretel! … so early … 🥱
#opera #HänselUndGretel #Humperdinck #Darmstadt #Matinée #operaSinger
Staatstheater Darmstadt encourages us to shoot random shorts for social media. There was literally no reason to make any during the final Aida, since it was, well, the last one. However, I documented how I psyched myself up to sing a high E-Flat anyway – and we made a fun little clip from the videos!
(I mention Aris, but forgot to explain who he is: Aris Argiris was Amonasro, the father of my character Aida.)
#opera #Aida #Verdi #Darmstadt #operaSinger #backstage #EFlat #goingRogue
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
🗓️ Feb. 9
🕚 11:00 (am)
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
Gretel: Jana Baumeister
Hänsel: Lena Sutor-Wernich
Vater: David Pichlmaier
Mutter: Solgerd Isalv
Hexe: Megan Marie Hart
Sandmännchen/
Taumännchen: Aki Hashimoto
Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Marcus Merkel
Director: Nicola Raab
Stage & Video design: Danila Travin
Costumes: Lisa Moro
Dramaturg: Stefan Czura
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/haensel-gretel.2034
#opera #HänselUndGretel #Humperdinck #Darmstadt #Hessen #operaSinger #Hexe
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That’s a wrap!!
Our Intendant had a surprise for us: This Aida production will come back to Darmstadt the season after next. … that’s 2027/2028 I think? Very exited about that!!
Oh, and also: I sang a high E-flat in the finale, like Maria Callas! So, yeah. That happened! 😸
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CAST UPDATE: Liangliang Zhao is singing Il Re, the Pharao of Egypt in tonight’s Aida, instead of Johannes Seokhoon Moon!
And now it’s only 13 minutes till our 10th and last performance of Noa Naamat’s staging of Verdi’s AIDA in Darmstadt! Sold out again!!🥳
AIDA
🗓️ February 6
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
Aida: Megan Marie Hart
Radamès: Matthew Vickers
Amneris: Katrin Gerstenberger
Amonasro: Aris Argiris
Ramfis: Zaza Gagua
Il Re: Liangliang Zhao
Sacerdotessa: Ofeliya Pogosyan
Messaggero: Marco Mondragón
Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Johannes Zahn
Staging: Noa Naamat
Costume: Bettina John
Set: Bettina John/Noa Naamat
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/aida.2015/#event-12091
📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOkwF5apwI
And here we go. 😎 Merry Widow tonight. 😊
#art #opera #opereta #operasinger #theater
Attending the dress rehearsal of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, staged by the amazing Dirk Schmeding!
Arkel: Johannes Seokhoon Moon
Geneviève: Lena Sutor-Wernich
Pelléas: David Pichlmaier
Golaud: Georg Festl
Mélisande: Jana Baumeister
Yniold: Theodor Wahl
Conductor: Lucie Leguay
Premiere is on Saturday!
🗓️ Jan. 31
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/pelleas-und-melisande.2057/
#opera #Darmstadt #Hessen #Debussy #PelléasEtMélisande #operaSinger
Aujourd’hui je vous emmène à Melbourne en Australie dans un recueil d'histoires et aussi le premier album sorti il y a 20 ans maintenant d’Oliver Mann. Il est chanteur d’opéra (je vous aurais tout fait les amis, la DA est éclatée), il est baryton-basse, et peut descendre comme Brad Roberts et monter comme Anohni. Une dinguerie comme dises les gosses. Il dit: ne croyez pas les gens qui vous parlent de bonheur, ils ne font que l’imaginer et ça ne ressemble jamais à tout ça. Vous trouverez 3 albums à dévorer qui s’en approchent et si vous accrochez sur ce premier titre absolument délicieux la discographie vous attends.
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CAST UPDATE: Leonardo Lee will perform as Amonasro in tonight’s Aida instead of Aris Argiris!
And our penultimate Aida starts in 10 minutes!
LETTERS TO FRED
For Holocaust Remebrance Day I’m going to perform “Letters to Fred” by Bracha Bdil in North Rhine-Westphalia. Sunday at Landestheater #Detmold and Tuesday in #Hagen at the Kunstquartier.
Please come and see this important work—the letters are beyond, they simply must be heard.
📍 LandestheaterDetmold
🗓️ Jan. 25
🕦 11:30
📍 Kunstquartier Hagen
🗓️ Jan. 27
🕢 19:30
#Holocaust #HolocaustGedenktag #LandestheaterDetmold #TheaterHagen #LettersToFred #BrachaBdil #SongCycle #NRW #operaSinger
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CAST UPDATE: Irina Ignata will take over the role of Amneris in tonight’s performance in place of Katrin Gerstenberger!
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If you want to see our Aida in Darmstadt and don’t have a ticket yet, the penultimate performance on Friday is your last chance! (The final performance in February is sold out.)
AIDA
🗓️ January 23
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
Aida: Megan Marie Hart
Radamès: Matthew Vickers
Amneris: Irina Ignata
Amonasro: Leonardo Lee
Ramfis: Zaza Gagua
Il Re: Johannes Seokhoon Moon
Sacerdotessa: Ofeliya Pogosyan
Messaggero: Kiduck Kwon
Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Johannes Zahn
Staging: Noa Naamat
Costume: Bettina John
Set: Bettina John/Noa Naamat
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/aida.2015/#event-13008
📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOkwF5apwI
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As of now, there are still tickets available in all price categories for tomorrow’s Aida, so if you’re interested in going, get them quickly!
(Our production will be performed only three more times in Darmstadt (including tomorrow), after which it will go to the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.)
Ernestine Schumann - Heink [1920]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows German American opera singer Ernestine (Rössler) Schumann-Heink (1861-1936) when she played a concert at Ellis Island in 1920. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017 and 2024)
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there; as many as two-fifths of Americans may be descended from these immigrants. It has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 and is accessible to the public only by ferry. The north side of the island is a national museum of immigration, while the south side of the island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is open to the public through guided tours.
#ErnestineSchumannHeink #OperaSinger #EllisIsland #Concert #BainNewsService #Photograph #glassnegatives #news #photography #Ernestine #SchumannHeink
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