ALEXANDER RASKATOV ABOUT COMPOSING
»For a composer it is important to achieve a synthesis of your musical childhood memories, from the...
Animal Farm
on February 28, 2024
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Premiere
Cast 28.02.2024
Conductor
Alexander Soddy
Production
Damiano Michieletto
Stage Design
Paolo Fantin
Costume Design
Klaus Bruns
Choreography
Thomas Wilhelm
Lighting Design
Alessandro Carletti
Dramaturge
Wout van Tongeren
Luc Joosten
Old Major
Gennady Bezzubenkov
Napoleon
Wolfgang Bankl
Snowball
Michael Gniffke
Squealer
Andrei Popov
Boxer
Stefan Astakhov
Benjamin / Young Actress
Karl Laquit
Minimus
Artem Krutko
Clover
Margaret Plummer
Muriel
Isabel Signoret
Blacky
Elena Vassilieva
Mollie
Holly Flack
Mr. Jones
Daniel Jenz
Ms. Jones
Aurora Marthens
Mr. Pilkington
Clemens Unterreiner
Details
Director Damiano Michieletto has long wished to bring Animal Farm to the opera stage. »The story is simple, a sort of fairy tale which, if you look at it more closely, deals with important issues such as power, oppression and propaganda in a nuanced way. The story is horrible but has comic elements as well. And it allows you to have not only a lot of solo roles but also a chorus«, Michieletto notes. He found the ideal partner in Alexander Raskatov. The composer was born to a Jewish Russian family in Moscow on the day of Stalin’s burial in 1953, not far from Red Square, and has won acclaim with his setting of another literary masterpiece critical of the Soviet Union – A Dog’s Heart, based on Bulgakov’s novella, and also premiered at Dutch National Opera, followed by performances in London, Milan and Lyon.
Director Damiano Michieletto has long wished to bring Animal Farm to the opera stage. »The story is simple, a sort of fairy tale which, if you look at it more closely, deals with important issues such as power, oppression and propaganda in a nuanced way. The story is horrible but has comic elements as well. And it allows you to have not only a lot of solo roles but also a chorus«, Michieletto notes. He found the ideal partner in Alexander Raskatov. The composer was born to a Jewish Russian family in Moscow on the day of Stalin’s burial in 1953, not far from Red Square, and has won acclaim with his setting of another literary masterpiece critical of the Soviet Union – A Dog’s Heart, based on Bulgakov’s novella, and also premiered at Dutch National Opera, followed by performances in London, Milan and Lyon.
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Co-production partner
A Co-production and Co-commission of DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA AMSTERDAM, WIENER STAATSOPER, TEATRO MASSIMO PALERMO and FINNISH NATIONAL OPERA & BALLET HELSINKI.