The Idiot by H.W. Henze and I. Bachmann

Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin

6^th September 1997 Hebbel-Theater

The Idiot

Text by Ingeborg Bachmann
Music by Hans Werner Henze (*1926)
with scenes from the novel of the same name by Fyodor M. Dostojewsky
First performance: 1952, Berlin
2. version: 1960, Berlin

Coproduction with the Berliner Festwochen and the Hebbel-Theater

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Claire Birrfelder May (Natassia) and Doreen Windolf (Aglaja)

Musical Director
Stage Director
Choreography
Costume Design

Myschkin
Natassia
Rogoschin
Aglaja

Rüdiger Bohn
Andreas Rochholl
Thorsten Händler
Gabriele Wasmuth

Ralf Grobel
Claire Birrfelder May
Leopold von Verschuer
Doreen Windolf

Orchestra of the Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
(11 musicians)

The novel "The Idiot" by F. M. Dostoievski was the model for a ballet pantomime of the choreographer Tatiana Gsovski, for which Henze wrote the music. After the first performance Ingeborg Bachmann, at Henze’s request, wrote a new, lyrical text. The resulting work is not an opera, not a ballet, not a drama.

Henze himself: "This work is the attempt to bring music, poetry, dance and drama together in a new fashion."

	Ralf Grobel
	Doreen Windolf

	Leopold von Verschuer
	Thorsten Händler

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