The Miracle of Heliane

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957)

02
Thursday
March
19:00 - 22:15
C-Prices: € 100,00 / € 82,00 / € 58,00 / € 34,00 / € 24,00
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Dear visitors,

due to the illness at short notice of the tenor part (Der Fremde) in Korngold's DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, today's performance (2 March 2023) has to be cancelled to our great regret. As the work is so extraordinarily rarely performed, no replacement can be found so quickly. We assume that Mihails Culpajevs will be healthy again for the other performances (5, 8, 11 March).

Ticket purchases by credit card, PayPal or SEPA direct debit will be processed automatically and we will refund the purchase amount.

If you bought your tickets in cash at the box office or if the money is not automatically refunded in a maximum of 3 weeks, you can contact our telephone ticket service on +49 30 343 84 343 or come to our box office.

Guests who bought their tickets through a visitor organisation or eventim.de or an advance booking office are asked to return them there.

With our apologies for any inconvenience,

Yours, Deutsche Oper Berlin

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02
Thursday
March
19:00 - 22:15
C-Prices: € 100,00 / € 82,00 / € 58,00 / € 34,00 / € 24,00
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold spoke of this work as his “masterpiece”. THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE bears all the hallmarks of Korngold’s musical theatre - and goes one step further in scale, with a huge score and orchestra, intoxicating pathos and exquisitely expressive harmonies that play with polytonality - resulting in a gripping and sensuous drama. The world premiere in Hamburg in 1927 was a triumph, with more than a dozen houses booking the latest work by Korngold, at the time the second most performed composer of opera after Richard Strauss. In 1928 the work was presented at the Städtische Oper Berlin, with Bruno Walter directing, but here, as at other venues, the reception was cool, due in part to intrigues, in part to the charge that his Late Romantic score was behind the times. With the Jewish Korngold prevented by the Nazis from presenting his works to the public, THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE vanished from the repertoire, never to return. This is a timeless fairy tale portraying a cold ruler incapable of loving anyone, his wife Heliane, devoted to a Dionysian stranger, and a people waiting for a redemptory miracle to occur.

A precise psychological analysis of a work’s protagonists is what interests director Christof Loy, who is returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin after stints here presenting JENUFA, FALSTAFF and EDWARD II. And it falls to Marc Albrecht, for many years a close collaborator with the opera house, to waken Korngold’s grand and opulent music from decades of slumber.

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