Die Weiden
music by Johannes Maria Staud
libretto by Durs Grünbein
08, 11, 14, 16, 20 | 12 | 2018
CONDUCTOR
Ingo Metzmacher
DIRECTOR
Andrea Moses
SET DESIGN
Jan Pappelbaum
COSTUMES
Kathrin Plath
LIGHTING
VIDEO
Arian Andiel
DRAMATURG
Moritz Lobeck
Lea, eine junge Philosophin
Rachel Frenkel
Peter, ein junger Künstler
Tomasz Konieczny
Edgar, Peters alter Schulfreund
Thomas Ebenstein
Kitty, Edgars Geliebte
Andrea Carroll
Die Fernsehreporterin
Sylvie Rohrer
Krachmeyer, Komponist, Freund von Peters Familie
Udo Samel
Leas Mutter
Monika Bohinec
Leas Vater/Der Angler am Ufer
Herbert Lippert
Peters Mutter
Donna Ellen
Peters Vater
Alexandru Moisiuc
Johannes Maria Staud has received composition commissions from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as from the Cleveland Orchestra and Salzburg Festival. He has also had his operas premièred at the Munich Biennale and the Lucerne Festival. Together with librettist Durs Grünbein he has now written a political opera for the Wiener Staatsoper, making reference to the general shift to the right in Europe. At the centre of the action is the newly enamoured couple Peter and Lea, who set off on a journey down a river, – to the very heart of Europe, a continent recently torn apart again...