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Award of the Götz Friedrich Prize

Lisenka Heijboer Castañón receives the Götz Friedrich Prize 2024

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The Götz Friedrich Prize for the 2023/2024 season goes to Lisenka Heijboer Castañón for her production of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY by John Adams at the Vienna Volksoper. Chaired by the artistic director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dietmar Schwarz, the jury voted in favor of awarding the 5,000 euro prize to the Dutch-Peruvian director. The award ceremony will take place on October 16, 2024 in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

For over twenty years, the Götz Friedrich Prize has been one of the most important institutions for the promotion of outstanding talent in the field of music theater directing - award winners such as Stefan Herheim, Nadja Loschky and Sebastian Baumgarten are just a few examples. After being organized by the German-Speaking Opera Conference in recent years, the Götz Friedrich Prize has returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the main place of activity of its dedicatee, since the 2022/2023 season.

The members of the jury are Viktor Schoner (Stuttgart State Opera), Ina Karr (Lucerne Theater), Andrea Moses (Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar), Jörg Königsdorf (Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Martin G. Berger (director). The Götz Friedrich Prize is financially supported by the Förderkreis of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The Dutch-Peruvian director Lisenka Heijboer Castañón made her debut on the main stage of the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam in 2020 with the world premiere of FAUST (WORKING TITLE) and, following this success, was entrusted with directing the music theater project I HAVE MISSED YOU FOREVER as part of the Amsterdam Opera forward festival in 2022. Also in 2022, she directed (together with Zack Winokur) the new production of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at the Santa Fé Opera and KLASSIKERMASCHINE: DON GIOVANNI at Theater Basel. Heijboer Castanón gained stage experience as an assistant to directors such as Pierre Audi, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Laurent Pelly and Lotte de Beer, with whom she has also worked as a co-director. In the 2019/20 season, she was also a Directing Fellow of the Vocal Arts Department at the Juillard School New York.

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Adventskalender im Foyer: Das 12. Fensterchen

Today in the foyer: ‘The Snow Queen’ as a live audio play
A reading with Burkhard Ulrich and Fanny Frohnmeyer, with Lukas Zeuner on the drums
5:00 p.m. / Parkettfoyer
Duration: approx. 25 minutes / Free admission

‘Behold! Now we begin. When we reach the end of the story, we will know more than we do now, because it was an evil goblin! It was one of the very worst, it was the devil! One day he was in a good mood because he had made a mirror that had the property of making everything good and beautiful reflected in it shrink to almost nothing, but what was no good and looked bad was emphasised and became even worse. The most magnificent landscapes looked like overcooked spinach in it, and the best people became disgusting or stood on their heads without a torso,’ so begins the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen.

By an unfortunate accident, a splinter of this evil magic mirror jumps into Kay's heart , whereupon he suddenly finds life in his small town quite awful and lets himself be taken by the nasty Snow Queen to the far north. But Kay's friend Gerda sets out to save her best friend. With the help of a crow and a reindeer, she eventually finds her way to the cold north of Lapland and, with the true power of friendship and laughter, she is able to free Kay from the clutches of the Snow Queen.

Today, in the foyer, the tenor Burkhard Ulrich and the director of our Junge Deutsche Oper Fanny Frohnmeyer read this touching and wonderful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for all fairy tale fans, old and young! And our percussionist Lukas Zeuner provides the sound for the story with marimbas, a xylophone and all kinds of rhythm and sound instruments. And all this live and very close to the audience, next to the large fir tree in the parquet foyer.