Everyone (rock opera)

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Opera dates
Title: Anyone
Shape: Rock opera
Original language: German
Music: Wolfgang Böhmer
Libretto : Peter Lund
Literary source: Everyone from Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Premiere: July 10, 2014
Place of premiere: Theater Erfurt , DomStufen Festival
Place and time of the action: Open place and time
people
  • Anyone
  • The death
  • The dearest
  • The mother
  • God
  • gardener
  • The good fellow
  • Works
  • Debtor's wife
  • The debtor
  • mammon
  • devil
  • The Vogt
  • The Cook
  • The servant
  • The fat cousin
  • The thin cousin
  • The base
  • young lady
  • Anyone as a child
  • Works as a child

Everyone is a rock opera by the composer Wolfgang Böhmer and the author Peter Lund . The libretto is based on the original by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . The rock opera was premiered by Theater Erfurt on July 10, 2014 as part of the DomStufen Festival in Erfurt.

action

Death has decided. Everyone should die.

Everyone is rich, insolently rich. Nevertheless, he thoughtlessly leaves a defaulting debtor to his fate and instead gives his loved one a silver paradise. Because everyone fears everything that is perishable and wants to live forever. Even his mother admonishes him in vain to have an heir. Everyone dismisses their old gardener because of a triviality.

The devil appears and mocks the old man: No one recognizes the good God in him. But the devil is also worried about his future career. People lack the right faith. Death calms allegories; dying will bring everyone back to faith.

At a party in the loved ones' house, death heralds the near end of everyone and only gives them a brief respite. But everyone has not learned to die. Desperately he is looking for a companion for his last trip and suddenly finds himself all alone. Personnel and family distribute the inheritance with foresight, and his riches in the person of Mammon also refuse to serve him.

The loved one tries in vain to convince everyone to make their peace with their fate. In his anger everyone turns away from her and rejects her. Everyone alone must realize that no one in the world will miss them. "Works" appears there. The one good deed that everyone committed in their life will accompany them on their final journey. Where is this going? Only death knows that. And he doesn't reveal it to - anyone.

layout

The rock opera Jedermann stands musically between the opera and the musical. There are also elements of oratorio and musical comedy. The style combines hard rock music with the symphonic orchestral sound of modern opera.

Instrumentation

The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:

Work history

The rock opera Jedermann was commissioned by the Erfurt Theater . The text by Peter Lund is based on the play Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . The music was composed by Wolfgang Böhmer .

The world premiere took place on July 10, 2014 on the cathedral steps on Domberg in Erfurt as part of the DomStufen festival . The Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra , opera choir and extras of the Erfurt Theater were under the musical direction of Jürgen Grimm. In addition, the band Lidenbrock joined. The production was done by Peter Lund , the set by Hank Irwin Kittel, the costumes by Ulrike Reinhard and the choreography by Cedric Lee Bradley. It sang Andreas Lichtenberger (Everyone), Brigitte Oelke (Death), Nadja Mchantaf (The Dearest), Katja Bildt (The Mother), Robert Worle (God / Gardener), Jörg Rathmann (The Good Gesell) Marysol Ximenez-Carrillo ( Debtor's wife / works), Máté Sólyom-Nagy (the debtor / Mammon), Martin Schäffner (devil), Stefan Voigt (the bailiff), Keren Trüger (the cook), Matthias Knaab (the servant), Maciej Salamon (the fat cousin ), Andres Esteban (The Thin Cousin), Teresa Scherhag (Die Base), Venera Jakupov (Miss) and Tim Ludwig and Tina Schöltzke (Swing).

For the music festival Oper Oder-Spree the composer created a new version as a chamber music folk opera. It was first performed on July 19, 2018 in a production by Rainer Holzapfel in the Kreuzhof of Neuzelle Monastery .

literature

  • Program Everyman - The Rock Opera. DomStufen Festival, Theater Erfurt, 2013/14 season

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jedermann - Die Rockoper published by Felix Bloch Erben , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Jedermann - Die Rockoper am Theater Erfurt ( Memento from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Thomas Molke: The Art of Learning to Die. Performance review in Online Musik Magazin , accessed April 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Gunda Bartels: "Everyone" in the Neuzelle Monastery - your luggage, give it away. In. Der Tagesspiegel from July 20, 2018, accessed on July 20, 2018.