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Based on the novel of the same name by Polish author and Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz, Weinberg created an opera about guilt and renewed confrontation with the past. In his opera, completed in 1968 but only staged for the first time in 2010, the Polish-Jewish composer, who lost his parents and sister in the Shoah, combines late romantic opulence with twelve-tone technique, folk songs and dance music to create a haunting memorial against obfuscation and forgetting.

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Die Passagierin

Staatstheater Mainz

Nabucco, king of the Babylonians, raids the Hebrews and destroys their temples. His daughter Fenena defects to the enemy camp. Her love for the slave Ismaele is a thorn in the side of her half-sister Abigaille. She is not only fighting against Fenena, but against the subjugated Jewish people.

But then Abigaille finds a document that reveals that she is the daughter of a slave and will therefore never be entitled to the crown. Only an intrigue and the mental decline of her power-obsessed father Nabucco can pave her way to the king's throne...

Nabucco

Only a single hit separates Max from his happiness. If he succeeds in making a successful test shot in front of the prince, forester Kuno grants him the hand of his daughter Agathe and the forest. But the fear of failure paralyzes Max and makes him resort to forbidden means. In the dark Wolves Gorge, Kaspar seduces him into casting free bullets. Six of these magic bullets hits every imaginable target unfailingly. With the seventh bullet, however, the devil takes a human victim. The next day, when the seventh bullet is in Max's rifle during the all-important test shot, all the bleak omens seems to come true.

Stephan Bootz

Bass

Events

Past events

Jan 19 - Mar 28, 2024

Die Passagierin · Staatstheater Mainz

Apr 1 - Jun 19, 2023

Nabucco · Staatstheater Mainz

Future and recently performed repertoire

Gran Sacerdote di Belo in Nabucco by Verdi

Staatstheater Mainz

Hermit in Der Freischütz by Weber

Staatstheater Mainz

Kaspar in Der Freischütz by Weber

Staatstheater Mainz

First SS-Man in Die Passagierin by Weinberg

Staatstheater Mainz

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