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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Andrew Dickinson

Andrew Dickinson

„Andrew Dickinson bringt sowohl in seinen Gesang als auch in seine Schauspielkunst eine unwiderstehliche viszerale Energie ein.“ – Opera Magazine

Der britische Tenor Andrew Dickinson beeindruckt mit seiner charismatischen Bühnenpräsenz und sensiblen Musikalität an Opernhäusern und Konzertsälen in ganz Europa. In Liverpool geboren, schloss er 2011 sein Studium an der Royal Academy Opera School ab. Während seiner Ausbildung gewann er mehrere Wettbewerbe, darunter den Maureen Lehane Vocal Competition in der Wigmore Hall und 2015 den Wettbewerb der britischen Wagner Society.

An der Deutschen Oper Berlin, wo er von 2016 bis 2022 Ensemblemitglied war, hat er bereits zahlreiche Rollen gesungen, darunter Flute in Brittens A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Die Lüge in Langgaards ANTIKRIST, Truffaldino in Prokofjews DIE LIEBE ZU DREI ORANGEN, Tamino in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Hexe in Humperdincks HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, Jonas in Meyerbeers LE PROPHETE, Novice in Brittens BILLY BUDD und Da-Ud in Richard Strauss' DIE ÄGYPTISCHE HELENA.

Gastauftritte führten ihn als Weißer Minister in Ligetis LE GRAND MACABRE an die Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Pedrillo in DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL an die Dänische Nationaloper, Vier Diener in LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN an die Hamburgische Staatsoper (Nagano/Pasca), Red Whiskers in Brittens BILLY BUDD ans Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Ulrich Eißlinger in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG an die Oper Leipzig (Schirmer/Poutney), Quint in Brittens TURN OF THE SCREW an die Bury Court Opera, Kaufmann in Wolfgang Rihms JAKOB LENZ ans Mozarteum Salzburg und Gerhard in HK Grubers GLORIA – A PIGTALE zu den Bregenzer Festspielen. Er sang unter Dirigenten wie Kent Nagano, Sir Donald Runnicles, Ulf Schirmer, Robin Ticciati, James Conlon, Alan Gilbert und Enrique Mazzola.

Andrew Dickinsons Auftritte in der Saison 2023/24 beinhalten Der Schäbige in Schostakowitschs LADY MACBETH VON MZENSK in Hamburg, Frère Elie in Messiaens SAINT FRANÇOIS D’ASSISE in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg und Tschaplitskij in Tschaikowskijs PIQUE DAME an der Deutschen Oper Berlin.

Als gern gesehener Gast in Konzertsälen in ganz Europa hat Andrew Dickinson Bachs „Johannes-Passion“ (Ensemble Resonanz), Händels „Messias“ (Royal Festival Hall in London, Stephansdom in Wien, Liszt-Akademie in Budapest), Mozarts „Requiem“ (Royal Albert Hall) aufgeführt sowie Brittens „War Requiem“ (Berliner Dom). Weitere Engagements umfassen die preisgekrönte Produktion von Janáčeks „Tagebuch eines Verschollenen“, das er im April 2019 an der Brooklyn Academy of the Arts New York aufgeführt hat (Musiektheater Transparant/Van Hove) sowie Berlioz’ „Grande Messe des Morts“ (Winchester Cathedral), Bachs h-Moll-Messe (Bolzano), Mendelssohns „Elijah“ (Amman, Jordanien) und Bachs „Matthäuspassion“ (Hannover).

Andrew Dickinson ist ein begeisterter Produzent neuer Konzertformate, um ein neues Publikum anzusprechen. Während der Pandemie im Oktober 2020 kuratierte er mit UNITED WE STREAM ein Multi-Genre-Projekt mit einer Ausstellung zu Schuberts „Schwanengesang“, durch die er zusammen mit über 40 in Berlin lebenden Künstlern zur Unterstützung in der Beirut-Krise beitragen wollte. Im Mai 2019 brachte er gemeinsam mit dem Pianisten Jonathan Ware und dem Videokünstler Matthew Kvasnik sein Projekt „Die Schöne Müllerin“ zunächst in der Liverpool Philharmonic Hall zur Aufführung, später auch bei einer Europatournee mit dem Oranjewoud Festival. Er produziert auch Konzerte und Opern mit Schwerpunkt auf Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Bildung.

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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.