Synopsis
- When one concentrates the work and sheds the historical "costume," RIENZI is the story of the rise and fall of a dictator. Many subjects are set up in this connection: how do power, propaganda and mass suggestion work? What gives the individual the aura of a leader? The 19th century anticipates the history of the 20th century in a visionary way. One can establish amazing analogies to many despots from this period: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Ceausescu, as far as I’m concerned Saddam Hussein, too. That’s why it immediately suggested itself to me to transfer RIENZI to these times. We show a mixture of power-conscious design of the 1920s to the 1950s. Rienzi’s palace alternates between Stalin’s empire, Speer’s neo-classicism and the totalitarian sepulchre of an Orwell filming of 1984. Construction intended to overwhelm. [Philipp Stölzl about RIENZI]
Conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing | Stage Director Philipp Stölzl
Cast Torsten Kerl, Camilla Nylund, Kate Aldrich et al.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Crew
- Director: Philipp Stölzl
- Costume Design: Kathi Maurer, Ursula Kudrna
- Production Design: Ulrike Siegrist
- Score: Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Richard Wagner
- Line producer: Andreas Bolle
- Production company: Deutsche Oper Berlin
Cast
- Leading actor / Actress: Kate Aldrich, Torsten Kerl, Camilla Nylund
