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The HfMT's current summer opera is a feast for the senses

The Eisensteins' marriage is no longer running smoothly, their maid Adele dreams of stardom and Dr. Falke has a very personal score to settle. What begins in the upper-class living room gets out of hand at the masked ball of the eccentric Prince Orlofsky, until all the characters meet again in prison with hangovers. Strauss' masterpiece is the execution of a seemingly perfect revenge plan full of trials and tribulations, imposture and hollow friendships - but also wet merriment and incorrigible humor!
This time, the annual summer opera becomes an operetta: after last year's Le nozze di Figaro, Christian Poewe is now staging the Austro-Hungarian musical theater evergreen at the Forum an der Alster. "There should be plenty of laughter in an undertaking such as the one we have before us. But when staging celebrations, fun and a champagne mood, I am always interested in what is being covered up and at whose expense," says the director.
In addition to the abundant choral and ensemble numbers, the many dances turn the piece into a spectacle: a veritable orgy of fun is unleashed with polkas, marches and the Viennese waltz. Conductor Willem Wentzel on the podium of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra makes sure of this: "The music is like an intoxication, a sparkling glass of champagne, like flying away from earthly reality. Music brings to life what cannot be experienced in everyday bourgeois life." The singers of the HfMT opera class rehearse Die Fledermaus with a double cast. For many students, the production marks the end of their training and thus becomes a springboard for a professional career. A great challenge for everyone - and a musical adventure at the same time!

MUSICAL DIRECTOR Willem Wentzel
DIRECTOR Christian Poewe
STAGE Malina Rassfeld
COSTUME Isabel Sandtmann & Robin Basman
THE SINGERS OF THE OPERA CLASS SING
IT IS ACTED by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra

Admission: 28,00 EUR
Reduced: 10,00 EUR

TICKETS (incl. HVV ticket, plus advance booking fees):
Tel. 040-45 33 26 and 040-44 02 98
Gerdes box office or at eventim
The box office opens one hour before the start of the performance in the foyer of the Forum.

A-premiere: 11.06., 18:00 h

B premiere: 13.06., 19:00 h

Further performances:
21.06., 19:00
24.06., 19:00
26.06., 19:00
28.06., 19:00
30.06., 19:00
02.07., 18:00

The Grand Summer Opera of the Master Opera course is a production of the Theaterakademie Hamburg as part of the junges forum Musik + Theater series.