Oliver Knussen Archives

Premiere: Wo die Wilden Kerle Wohnen

June 16, 2019 By Ian Sidden

English

Today is the premiere of Where the Wild Things Are, which is the opera adaptation by composer Oliver Knussen of the well-known children’s book of the same title by Maurice Sendak. I’m playing the Rooster Wild Thing. I’ve enjoyed working on this piece with my fellow cast mates and the creative team, and I always enjoy doing the children’s shows, so I’m really looking forward to getting this in front of people.

Auf Deutsch

Heute findet die Premiere „Wo die wilden Kerle Wohnen” statt. Die ist die von Oliver Knussen komponierte Opernfassung des bekannten gleichnamigen Kinderbuchs von Maurice Sendak. Ich singe die Hahnkerl Partie. Der kreative Prozess und die Mitarbeit der Kollegen haben mir sehr gut gefallen, und ich geniesse immer die Kinderoper, die wir hier im Theater Dortmund vorstellen. Ich freue mich sehr auf die Vorstellung.

Link:

https://www.theaterdo.de/detail/event/wo-die-wilden-kerle-wohnen/

Premiere: Fernand Cortez

Tonight we premiere our production of Gaspare Spontini’s Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique at Opernhaus Dortmund. This is after a two year delay; originally we were to have premiered this in 2020, but history intervened. There are many versions of this opera floating around, and we are doing a version that has – […]

Premiere: Frédégonde

Here’s one I’ve been looking forward to for awhile. Tonight at Opernhaus Dortmund, we’re premiering Frédegonde for the first time in Germany. It’s a work inspired from the early history of the Merovingians in what is now France and the ongoing feud between two of the queens, Brunhild and Frédegonde. The work was composed by […]

“Ständchen” by Schubert, Guitar and Voice Arrangement

Here is a performance of my self accompanied guitar arrangement of Franz Schubert’s “Ständchen”.

PREMIERE: Tosca

Tonight at Opernhaus Dortmund, we’re premiering our “Tosca”, which is the first premiere including the chorus since March 13, 2020.

One Year Later

On March 13, 2020, we had our last large premiere at Theater Dortmund with the chorus onstage. We performed “Die Stumme von Portici” to a nearly empty auditorium, a so-called Geisterpremiere. We nevertheless, of course, gave it our all. There have been other premieres since then as the lockdowns have come and gone, but so […]