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Valentin Thill

Valentin Thill

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Der aufstrebende französische Tenor Valentin Thill kann auf einige außergewöhnliche Debüts in jüngster Zeit zurückblicken: So Chevalier de la Force für die Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Barrie Koskys neuer Produktion von DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES unter Robin Ticciati, Tamino in Pierre Rigals neuer Produktion von DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE für das Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse unter Frank Beermann, Pong in Christophe Coppens' neuer Produktion von TURANDOT für La Monnaie unter Ouri Bronchti und Joe in Tatjana Gürbacas neuer Produktion von LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST für die Opéra national de Lyon unter Daniele Rustioni.

In der aktuellen Spielzeit gibt Valentin Thill sein Debüt als Chevalier de la Force in Robert Carsens Produktion von DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES unter Riccardo Minasi am Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. Außerdem kehrt er an die Opéra de Nice zurück, wo er die Hauptrolle des Michel in Martinůs JULIETTE OU LA CLÉ DES SONGES unter Anthony Hermus übernimmt, und an das Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, wo er als Steuermann in Michel Faus Neuproduktion von DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER unter Frank Beermann zu sehen sein wird.

Thill wurde immer wieder für die Schönheit seines Timbres und seine nuancierten Charakterisierungen hervorgehoben. Zu seinen von der Kritik gefeierten Debüts an anderen Häusern gehörten Jaquino / FIDELIO an der Opéra de Nice unter der Leitung von Marko Letonja, Pylade / IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE an der Opéra national de Montpellier unter Pierre Dumoussaud, Spalanzani / LES CONTES D' HOFFMANN an der Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège unter Giampaolo Bisanti, Tavannes / LES HUGUENOTS für La Monnaie unter der Leitung von Evelino Pidò, Seeman und der Hirt / TRISTAN UND ISOLDE am Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse und Alfred in / DIE FLEDERMAUS für die Opéra de Toulon.

Auf der Konzertbühne trat Valentin Thill kürzlich in Puccinis „Messa di Gloria“ mit der Opéra de Limoges, Bachs „Weihnachtsoratorium“ mit dem Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse unter Jordi Savall, Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 9 mit dem Orchestre national de Lyon unter Ben Glassberg und Dvořáks „Stabat Mater“ mit dem Lahti Symphony Orchestra unter Anja Bihlmaier auf. Bei konzertanten Opernaufführungen trat Thill beim Festival d'Aix-en-Provence als Barbarigo in Verdis I DUE FOSCARI unter der Leitung von Daniele Rustioni, als Nadir in Bizets LES PÊCHEURS DES PERLES an der Opéra Royal de Wallonie, als Roggiero in Rossinis TANCREDI unter Jérémie Rhorer beim Festival de Beaune und im Rahmen der BBC Proms 2023 mit der Glyndebourne Festival Opera und Robin Ticciati als Chevalier de la Force in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall, live übertragen auf BBC Radio 3.

Als ehemaliger Artist in Residence an der Brüsseler Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth studierte Valentin Thill bei José van Dam und Sophie Koch und wurde mit mehreren Preisen bei Nachwuchswettbewerben ausgezeichnet, darunter der Erste Preis beim Concours International de la Mélodie de Gordes, der Gabriel-Dussurget-Preis beim Festival d'Aix-en-Provence und der Zweite Preis beim 52. Concours International de Chant de Toulouse.

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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.