Opera

Lear

Opera by Aribert Reimann
Libretto by Claus H. Henneberg
Based on William Shakespeare

In German with surtitles

For adults and young people from age 14

Dates and tickets

Sa, 10.02.2024 | 19:30 h
26,50 € – 78,50 € | red. from 7,00 €
Opernhaus |  
Premiere |  
26,50 € – 78,50 € | red. from 7,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Yannick Spanier Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Philipp Kapeller Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi Ritter Chorsolist:in

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
We, 14.02.2024 | 19:30 h
21,50 € – 58,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Opernhaus |  
21,50 € – 58,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Richard Walshe Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Marco Lee Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Narr Nico Holonics Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Su, 03.03.2024 | 16:00 h
23,50 € – 65,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Opernhaus |  
23,50 € – 65,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Yannick Spanier Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Philipp Kapeller Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Narr Nico Holonics Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Fr, 08.03.2024 | 19:30 h
24,50 € – 69,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
24,50 € – 69,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Richard Walshe Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Marco Lee Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Narr Nico Holonics Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Su, 10.03.2024 | 16:00 h
23,00 € – 62,00 € | red. from 5,00 €
Opernhaus |  
23,00 € – 62,00 € | red. from 5,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Yannick Spanier Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Marco Lee Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Narr Nico Holonics Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Th, 21.03.2024 | 19:30 h
21,50 € – 58,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Opernhaus |  
Last performance in this season |  
21,50 € – 58,50 € | red. from 5,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias

König Lear Michael Kupfer-Radecky König von Frankreich Richard Walshe Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek Graf von Kent Philipp Kapeller Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders Edgar, Glosters Sohn Andrew Watts Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli Goneril Angela Denoke Regan Kiandra Howarth Cordelia Meredith Wohlgemuth Narr Nico Holonics Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

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„They are all wrong. Where does truth lie?“
What to do when power and strength are fading? King Lear assembles his daughters to divide his realm – a cry for love, unheard by power-hungry ears. Only his youngest daughter Cordelia appreciates him and is cast out immediately. Soon, the older daughters Regan and Goneril become caught up in fierce machinations. The family structure develops into a cyclone of violence and insanity that destroys everything the monarch once loved and that once loved him. Everything that is still alive.

Revolving around a hunger for power and suspicion, jealousy and narcissism, family constraints and the disillusions of old age, Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of the most important works of world literature. Composer Aribert Reimann created a radical piece of musical theatre that has become an opera classic in its own right: With hellishly difficult vocal parts and a huge orchestra, with impulsive rhythms and crystal-clear words, with spectacular effects and a breath-taking theatricality of sounds. Lear was premiered in Munich in 1978 with great success. It brings Shakespeare’s cruel play relentlessly close to us; it moves, impresses and appals. This monumental work, one of the most frequently performed contemporary operas, will now be presented in Hanover for the first time.

The internationally acclaimed vocalists Angela Denoke, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Nils Wanderer will feature in the main roles, while General Music Director Stephan Zilias takes on the challenge of this complex total machinery. The British team of director Joe Hill-Gibbins, who staged the opera Greek as a “resounding comic” (HAZ) at the State Opera in 2021, and star set-designer Tom Scutt will develop the story in overwhelming images of a modern-abstract aesthetic.

Musikalische Leitung Stephan Zilias
Inszenierung Joe Hill-Gibbins
Bühne Tom Scutt
Kostüme Evie Gurney
Movement Director Jenny Ogilvie
Licht Andreas Schmidt
Chor Lorenzo Da Rio / Johannes Berndt
Dramaturgie Sophia Gustorff
Xchange Siiri Niittymaa


König von Frankreich Yannick Spanier / Richard Walshe
Herzog von Albany Darwin Prakash
Herzog von Cornwall Pawel Brozek
Graf von Kent Philipp Kapeller / Marco Lee
Graf von Gloster Frank Schneiders
Edgar, Glosters Sohn Nils Wanderer / Andrew Watts
Edmund, Bastard Glosters Robert Künzli
Goneril Angela Denoke
Narr Nico Holonics
Bedienter Fabio Dorizzi
Ritter Chorsolist:in


Chor der Staatsoper Hannover,