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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen ist seit der Spielzeit 2018/2019 Generalmusikdirektor des Staatstheaters Darmstadt. Zu Cohens Opernproduktionen in Darmstadt gehörten Titel wie: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, FIDELIO, LOHENGRIN, LA BOHÈME, RUSALKA, LULU, HOFFMANNS ERZÄHLUNGEN, OTELLO und ELEKTRA. In der kommenden Saison wird Cohen dort TRISTAN UND ISOLDE und WOZZECK dirigieren.

Cohen pflegt regelmäßige Verbindungen zu den Berliner Opernhäusern – in der Saison 2015/2016 war er als Kapellmeister an der Deutschen Oper Berlin engagiert, wo er in zahlreichen Vorstellungen u. a. COSÌ FAN TUTTE, DON GIOVANNI und LA TRAVIATA dirigierte und seitdem regelmäßig an das Haus zurückkehrt. Im Juni 2023 dirigierte Cohen die Uraufführung von Giorgio Battistellis IL TEOREMA DI PASOLINI. An der Staatsoper Unter den Linden debütierte er 2016/17 mit Strawinskys LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS und kehrte u. a. für IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA sowie eine Wiederaufnahme der Produktion TURN OF THE SCREW von Benjamin Britten zurück.

Weitere Einladungen führten ihn an die Canadian Opera Company, an die Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv, das Teatro Massimo und an die Norske Opera Oslo. Im Sommer 2019 debütierte Daniel Cohen mit den Wiener Symphonikern bei den Bregenzer Festspielen in einer Produktion von DON QUICHOTTE von Jules Massenet in der Regie von Mariame Clément. Die Produktion ist auf DVD erschienen und ist mit dem Österreichischen Musiktheaterpreis 2020 als „Beste Gesamtproduktion Oper“ ausgezeichnet worden. 2021 kehrte er mit dem Dirigat für RIGOLETTO zu den Bregenzer Festspielen zurück, 2022 übernahm er mit großem Erfolg die Probenphase und das Konzert der neu gegründeten „Orchesterakademie Bregenz“ in Zusammenarbeit mit den Wiener Symphonikern. In der Saison 2023/24 kehrt er zur Orchesterakademie der Bregenzer Festspiele zurück.

Im sinfonischen Bereich dirigierte er u. a. das Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, die Dresdner Philharmonie, die Münchner Symphoniker, das MDR Sinfonieorchester, das Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, das Helsingborgs Symfonieorkester, das RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, das Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in Florenz, das Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, das Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, die Camerata Salzburg und das Sinfonieorchester Basel. Einer der Schwerpunkte seines Repertoires liegt auf der zeitgenössischen Musik: 2011 bis 2013 war er Teilnehmer des „Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Project“, das von Pierre Boulez geleitet wurde.

Daniel Cohen war als Geiger lange Zeit Mitglied im West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, wo er Daniel Barenboim bei vielen Konzerten und Einspielungen assistierte. In der Saison 2013/14 war Daniel Cohen „Dudamel Fellow“ beim Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Ein Jahr später war er „Conducting Fellow“ beim Tanglewood Music Festival.

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Giorgio Battistelli: Il teorema di Pasolini
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Giorgio Battistelli: Il teorema di Pasolini

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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.



Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.