Hanna Schwarz

Hanna Schwarz

Hanna Schwarz zählt seit ihrem Debüt bei den Bayreuther Festspielen 1976 in Wagners DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (Regie: Patrice Chéreau) zu den großen Sängerinnen ihres Fachs. Sie ist regelmäßiger Gast an allen großen Opernhäusern der Welt, darunter die Staatsopern in Hamburg, wo sie einst Ensemblemitglied war, und München, die Deutsche Oper Berlin, das Opernhaus Zürich, das Royal Opera House Covent Garden London sowie die Festspiele in Bayreuth und Salzburg. Große Erfolge feierte sie als Bizets Carmen, in den Strauss-Partien Octavian / DER ROSENKAVALIER, Amme / DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN, Klytämnestra / ELEKTRA, und Herodias / SALOME sowie als Auntie in Brittens PETER GRIMES, Gräfin Geschwitz in Bergs LULU. Hinzu kommt ein umfangreiches zeitgenössisches Repertoire mit Werken von Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze und Alfred Schnittke.

Jüngste Engagements umfassen Die alte Buryja in Janáceks JENUFA in München, an der Metropolitan Opera New York, dem New National Theatre Tokyo sowie der Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Filipjewna / EUGEN ONEGIN an der Opéra National de Paris sowie Weseners Mutter in Bernd Alois Zimmermanns DIE SOLDATEN am Teatro Real Madrid und Frau Bach in der Uraufführung DER MIETER von Arnulf Herrmann an der Oper Frankfurt. In den bedeutendsten Konzertsälen der Welt trat Hanna Schwarz u.a. mit dem Concertgebouw Orchester, den Wiener und Berliner Philharmonikern, dem London Symphony Orchestra, dem Cleveland Orchestra und dem Boston Symphony Orchestra auf.

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02
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 2. Fensterchen

In today's Advent calendar window, we are giving away 3 DVDs of "Der Schatzgräber" - an opera in a prelude, four acts and a postlude by Franz Schreker. If you would like to win one of the three DVDs, please send an e-mail today with the subject "The 2nd window" to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

DER SCHATZGRÄBER (THE TREASURE HUNTER) by Franz Schreker was a triumph at its world premiere in Frankfurt in 1920 and went on to play 44 times at assorted venues over the next five years. It then fell victim to a shifting zeitgeist and slipped from opera-house programmes, with a National Socialist ban on performances sealing its demise. Even after 1945 the Schreker revival was a long time coming – and THE TREASURE HUNTER has not featured prominently in the renaissance.

As with the vast majority of Schreker’s libretti, the story of Els and Elis explores the relationship between fantasy and reality, between art and life. Soulmates in the sense that they are both at the mercy of the king’s disposition, Els and Elis set off in search of different treasures. Elis, the minstrel, uses his magic lute to locate a stash of jewels and do humanity a good turn. Els, an innkeeper’s daughter who has grown up motherless in a tough, male-chauvinist world, becomes a liar, cheat and murderess in pursuit of her goal, tasking her suitors to steal the queen’s jewels and then having them killed once they have returned with the haul of treasure. Yet even with the gold in their possession, the pair are not content, and so, true to form, Schreker turns his attention to the theme of yearning per se, which is the actual “treasure” that the composer is interested in, “a dream of happiness and redemption”. Elis and Els are caught up in a swirl of dreams, memories, premonitions, songs and music. Their stories take on a dreamlike quality in a world beset by greed, murder and emotional inconstancy. For Franz Schreker the path to redemption could only be via art. Composed during the turmoil of the First World War, the TREASURE HUNTER score amounts to Schreker’s personal confession of artistic faith, executed in florid strokes of late-Romantic musical colour.

Conductor Marc Albrecht; Staging Christof Loy; Set design Johannes Leiacker; Costume design Barbara Drosihn; With Tuomas Pursio, Doke Pauwels, Clemens Bieber, Michael Adams, Joel Allison, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Seth Carico, Daniel Johansson, Gideon Poppe, Stephen Bronk, Elisabet Strid, Patrick Cook, Tyler Zimmerman a. o.; Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin



Closing date: 2 December 2023, the winners will be informed by email on 4 December 2023. The DVDs will then be sent by post. Legal recourse is excluded.