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Sebastian Weigle

Sebastian Weigle

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Engagements der laufenden Saison führen Sebastian Weigle neben seiner Tätigkeit als Generalmusikdirektor in Frankfurt an die Wiener Staatsoper (DER FREISCHÜTZ), das Royal Opera House Covent Garden (HÄNSEL UND GRETEL) und die Deutsche Oper Berlin (TANNHÄUSER). Neben seinen Konzertverpflichtungen bei den Frankfurter Museumskonzerten dirigiert er Bruckners 9. Symphonie mit dem Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sebastian Weigle wird ab der Saison 2019/20 neuer Chefdirigent des Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (YNSO) in Tokio.

Nach mehreren höchst erfolgreichen Produktionen an der Oper Frankfurt – u. a. DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN, für die er 2003 von den Kritikern des Fachmagazins „Opernwelt“ zum „Dirigenten des Jahres“ gekürt wurde – hat Sebastian Weigle mit Beginn der Spielzeit 2008/09 die dortige musikalische Leitung übernommen, die ihm bis heute innewohnt. Daneben war er von 2004 bis 2009 Chefdirigent am Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, wo er 2005 für sein Dirigat des PARSIFAL mit der „besten Produktion des Jahres“ und 2006 für Korngolds DIE TOTE STADT als „Dirigent des Jahres“ ausgezeichnet wurde. Im Sommer 2007 debütierte er bei den Bayreuther Festspielen mit einer Neuproduktion der MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG.

Engagements führten ihn u.a. an die Opernhäuser von Berlin, München, Dresden, Hamburg, Zürich, Mannheim, die Wiener Staatsoper und Volksoper, an die New Yorker Metropolitan Opera sowie nach Tokio. Bei Konzerten stand er am Pult renommierter Orchester, so z. B. der Rundfunkorchester von Berlin, München, Wien und Stuttgart, der Bamberger Symphoniker, der großen skandinavischen Orchester sowie außerhalb von Europa u. a. in Tokio, Chicago und Melbourne.

Zahlreiche CD-Einspielungen des Künstlers mit Werken von Beethoven, Mozart, Rott u. v. m. liegen vor. Unter seiner musikalischen Leitung erschien 2012 die Frankfurter RING DES NIBELUNGEN-Produktion (Regie: Vera Nemirova) bei Oehms-Classic auf DVD.

1961 in Berlin geboren, studierte Sebastian Weigle an der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Horn, Klavier und Dirigieren und wurde 1982 zum 1. Solohornisten der Staatskapelle Berlin ernannt. 1987 gründete er den Kammerchor Berlin und war Künstlerischer Leiter des Neuen Berliner Kammerorchesters, 1993 wurde er Chefdirigent der Jungen Philharmonie Brandenburg. Von 1997 bis 2002 war er Staatskapellmeister an der Berliner Staatsoper.

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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.