Hampstead TheatreEton Avenue, London, Greater London, NW3 3EU, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Rihm, Wolfgang (1952-2024) | Jakob Lenz |
Performers
| English National Opera | ||
| Alexander Ingram | Conductor | |
| Sam Brown | Director | |
| Andrew Shore | Baritone | Lenz |
| Jonathan Best | Bass | Pastor Oberlin |
| Richard Roberts | Tenor | Kaufmann |
To celebrate the 60th birthday of leading German composer Wolfgang Rihm, ENO presents the first ever English-language production of his most widely performed opera, a starkly Expressionist sonic ‘psychogram’ charting the mental disintegration of the real-life Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Lenz.
Staged by the dynamic young British director Sam Brown (winner of the 2011 European Opera-Directing Prize) and starring the extraordinary ‘chameleon’ actor/singer Andrew Shore – whose tour de force performance as Birtwistle’s Mr Punch launched ENO’s award-winning collaboration with the Young Vic – this pioneering co-production with the Hampstead Theatre inaugurates a brand-new relationship between ENO and North London’s long-established home of new writing.
Staged by the dynamic young British director Sam Brown (winner of the 2011 European Opera-Directing Prize) and starring the extraordinary ‘chameleon’ actor/singer Andrew Shore – whose tour de force performance as Birtwistle’s Mr Punch launched ENO’s award-winning collaboration with the Young Vic – this pioneering co-production with the Hampstead Theatre inaugurates a brand-new relationship between ENO and North London’s long-established home of new writing.
