FOKUS ’33
Streaming...
From February 17 until August 17 2024, the complete recording of the production DER SINGENDE TEUFEL by Franz Schreker can be streamed on OperaVision.
The Research Project
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Oper! Award 2023
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An exploratory journey towards the causes of disappearing and remaining
Since 2013/14, Theater Bonn’s opera has placed a central focus on the exploration of musical theatre works from the first third of the 20th century that, for various reasons, never found their way into the canon or lost their place in it over the course of time (such as Walter Braunfels: DER TRAUM EIN LEBEN; Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek: HOLOFERNES; Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen: OBERST CHABERT; Othmar Schoeck: PENTHESILEA).
Until at least the summer of 2023, but intended to continue beyond this period, we will pursue the issue of the mechanisms of forgetting or preserving with special intensity and from a broader perspective in the context of a special series of event.
As part of a performative and academic research project entitled FOKUS ‘33 – Forschungsreise zu den Ursachen von Verschwinden und Verbleiben (FOKUS ’33 – An exploratory journey towards the causes of disappearing and remaining), Oper Bonn will put forward a significantly increased number of productions of works that disappeared from theatre programming after 1933 or from 1945, or that were created during this period and were only premiered afterwards – for reasons that are in turn connected to factors that are to be investigated with the means of musical theatre and its complementing academic subjects. Productions of works by Alberto Franchetti, Clemens von Franckenstein, Rolf Liebermann, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Arnold Schönberg, Franz Schreker, Richard Strauss and Kurt Weill will be created and the causes of disappearing and remaining will be investigated in exhibitions and lectures.
Am 27. Februar 2023 wurde das Forschungsprojekt FOKUS '33 mit dem OPER! AWARD in der Kategorie "Beste Wiederentdeckug" ausgezeichnet.
Programmhefte zu ausgewählten Produktionen der Reihe FOKUS ´33 sind an der Theaterkasse zu erwerben.
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Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat.
Productions
Arabella | Leonore 40/45 | Ein Feldlager in Schlesien | Li-Tai-Pe | Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | Asrael | Der Singende Teufel | Moses und Aron | COLUMBUS
Seit 17. FEB 2024 im Stream
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Performances 2023|24
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Performances 2022|23
Der singende Teufel
Franz Schreker (1878 – 1934)
Premiere on mai 21, 2023 -
Performances 2022|23
Ein Feldlager in Schlesien
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 –1864)
Premiere on märz 13, 2022RADIO CONTRIBUTION on Deutschlandfunk Kultur OPERA
on 18 Feb 2023 | 7.05 pm
with a recording of the Bonn production -
The Exhibition
Paul Haferung | MOSES AND ARON Zürich 1957
MOSES UND ARON stand vom 10.12.23 bis 13.1.24 auf dem Spielplan der Oper Bonn. In diesem Zeitraum war die Ausstellung zu Vorstellungszeiten geöffnet und unabhängig von einem gebuchten Vorstellungstermin bei Vorlage einer Eintrittskarte frei zugänglich.
LEBEN UND WERK ARNOLD SCHÖNBERGS
Am 10. Dezember 2023, dem Premierentag der Oper MOSES UND ARON von Arnold Schönberg am Bonner Opernhaus, eröffnete um 16.30 Uhr im Garderobenfoyer des Opernhauses eine Ausstellung, die Einblick in Arnold Schönbergs Leben und Schaffen gab.
Mit Arnold Schönbergs fragmentarisch gebliebenem Werk MOSES UND ARON setzt die Oper Bonn das erfolgreich geführte szenische und wissenschaftliche Rechercheprojekt FOKUS‘ 33 fort.
Supporting programs
Introductory matinee
In conversation with Opera dramaturge Polina Sandler, director Jakob Peters-Messer talks about his approach to the interpretation of this while the musical director of the production, Hermes Helfricht, together with some members of the ensemble members give a few insights into the musical world of the COLUMBUS opera.
Accompanying exhibition to the opera COLUMBUS
Opening
The accompanying exhibition in cooperation with the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung of the University of Cologne tells the performance history of the COLUMBUS opera in pictures: stage and costume designs, photographs, newspaper articles. The exhibition runs until July 4, 2024.
Post-Show Discussion
after the performances on the foyer stage | no admission
Opera meets the city
Culture of remembrance in Bonn
Guest: Astrid Mehmel, Director of the Bonn Memorial
In 2019, the staff of the Werner Egk elementary school in Augsburg submitted an application to the city council to renaming the school, which was rejected after a long discussion was rejected. The issue is being taken up taken up again today. How the culture of remembrance is cultivated in the city and what mechanisms and mechanisms and processes for this are discussed with the director of the memorial and the NS Documentation Center in Bonn.
MÚSICA MESTIZA
Encounter of the Old and New Worlds
This discussion concert by the vocal ensemble ClarOscuro is a historical-musical journey through 200 years of conquest history: Selected works of Latin American baroque music will be performed, interpreted and commented on.
OPERA MEETS SCIENCE
Fantasies of colonization in the NS state
Guest: Professor of History and African Studies at Hamburg University, Prof Dr Jürgen Zimmerer
In order to build a bridge from the opera's plot to German colonial history and to explain the reasons for the positive reception of the work in the NS state the Nazi state, we are investigating with the scholar scholar Jürgen Zimmerer (ed. Erinnerungskämpfe. Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein, 2023) the continuities between the ideologies of racism and anti-Semitism.
Shifts in the German culture of remembrance: WERNER EGK's reception after 1945
Guest: Musicologist Prof. Dr. Michael Custodis, University of Münster
In the 1940s, Werner Egk was one of the most prominent figures on the German music scene, in the 1960s he was publicly denounced as “one of the most evil figures of National Socialist music policy”, in the 1970s he lived as a local celebrity in Bavaria. In conversation with the editor of the extensive research work Die Reichsmusikkammer. Kunst im Bann der Nazi-Diktatur and Netzwerke der Entnazifizierung, we use the example of Werner Egk to explore the causes of his disappearance and whereabouts.
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Supporting Program 2023|24
Opera Opernhaus 19:30Moses und Aron
Arnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)
Im Anschluß an die Vorstellung Nachgespräch mit Marco Medved, Leiter des Opernchores, und Polina Sandler, Cheframaturgin der Oper
Opera Opernhaus 18:00Moses und AronArnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)
Mit: Kirsten M. Schäfers
Moderation: Polina Sandler
Opera Opernhaus 18:00Moses und AronArnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)
Einführungsgespräch zu MOSES UND ARON mit Dirk Kaftan
16.30 Uhr | BAR65Final Performance Opera Opernhaus 19:30Moses und AronArnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)
OPER TRIFFT WISSENSCHAFT
Gespräch direkt vor Beginn der Vorstellung. 18 Uhr | Bar 65
Prof. Dr. Tobias Janz, Musikwissenschaftler und Leiter der Abteilung Musikwissenschaft / Sound Studies | Moderation: Barbara Dallheimer, Referentin für FOKUS‘33Nachgespräch im Anschluß an die Vorstellung mit Generalmusikdirektor Dirk Kaftan & Chefdramaturgin Polina Sandler
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Supporting Program 2022|23
Opera Bar 65 16:30Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)
Dr. Katharina Opalka im Gespräch mit Barbara Dallheimer über Alberto Franchettis ASRAEL
Die Veranstaltung ist auf den 14. Januar 2023 um 18 Uhr verlegt.
Opera Eingangsfoyer 17:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Verissage
The exhibition is open during performance hours and free of charge for ticket holders.
Opera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Dr Katharina Opalka discusses with Barbara Dallheimer on Alberto Franchettis ASRAEL.
The event was originally planned for November 6, 2022.
Opera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Prof. Dr. Stefan Klöckner, Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen im Gespräch mit Fokus’33-Referentin Barbara Dallheimer über »Kirche.Macht.Musik - oder: Warum der Teufel niemals sang ...«
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Supporting Program 2021|22
Premiere Opera Opernhaus 18:00Leonore 40/45
Rolf Liebermann (1910 –1999)
Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer: Vom Kanon zum Einerlei – warum die Oper ihre Vielfalt liegenlässtOpera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Anmeldung unter johanna.gremme@bonn.deOpera Foyerbühne 20:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Anmeldung unter johanna.gremme@bonn.deOpera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Thomas Kliche (Vorsitzender Meyerbeer-Gesellschaft)
Eintritt frei | Verlegt auf den 8. Mai 2022
Opera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)PD Dr. Sven Oliver Müller und Andreas K. W. Meyer
Expertengespräch | Eintritt frei
Opera Bar 65 18:00Fokus '33 (Begleitveranstaltung)Dr. Michael Werner
Gespräch | Eintritt Frei