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Herrliche Amerika-Satire: Brittens Paul Bunyan in Frankfurt

By Miriam Zeh, 11 October 2016
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Reviewed at Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main on 9 October 2016
Programme
Britten, Paul Bunyan
Performers
Oper Frankfurt
Nikolai Petersen, Conductor
Brigitte Fassbaender, Director
Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer
Bettina Munzer, Costume Designer
Elizabeth Sutphen, Tiny
Michael McCown, Johnny Inkslinger
Nathaniel Webster, Voice of Paul Bunyan
Sydney Mancasola, Fido
Julia Dawson Aguilar, Moppet
Cecelia Hall, Poppet
Michael Porter, Hot Biscuit Slim
Sebastian Geyer, Hel Helson
Mikołaj Trąbka, John Shears, Jen Jenson
Isaac Lee, Andy Anderson
Julian Habermann, Pete Peterson
Ingyu Hwang, Sam Sharkey
Ludwig Mittelhammer, Western Union Boy
Biber Herrmann, Narrator and Balladeer
Jeremy Bowes, Ben Benny
Miroslav Stricevic, Cross Crosshaulson
Marie Stockhausen, Choreography
Mareike Wink, Dramaturgy
Opera Frankfurt Orchestra
Mitglieder der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Mitglieder der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim
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Miriam Zeh
Miriam Zeh
Miriam studierte Musik, Germanistik und Philosophie in Köln, Paris und St. Louis. Jetzt promoviert sie am Forschungskolleg "Schreibszene Frankfurt" an der Goethe-Universität über Gegenwartsliteratur. Miriam schreibt für Print und Online über Musik, über Literatur und über ihr ungestümes Erleben von beidem.