The name Machreich stands not only for an invitation to active music-making and the economic success resulting from it. The agency’s founder and her colleagues dedicate themselves first and foremost to the unique artistic development of each of their singers. In an atmosphere of mutual trust and personal connection, individual projects can be conceived and inspiring constellations initiated. Intuition and discretion are the highest precepts for the work of a highly qualified team, which engages in its work with heart and mind.
(photo credit: Stephan Doleschal)
“Art is not, after all, a pretty add-on – it is the umbilical cord which connects us to the divine; it guarantees our identity as humans.”
(Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe
Ralf Lukas, Baron Mirko Zeta
Rebecca Nelsen, Valencienne, his wife
Adrian Eröd, Count Danilo
Elissa Huber, Hanna Glawari
Maximilian Mayer, Camille de Rossillion
Ralph Morgenstern, Njegusch (Sprechrolle)
John Heuzenroeder, Vicomte Cascada
Tim Oliver, Raoul de Saint-Brioche
Bernd Mottl, staging
Friedrich Eggert, stage
Alfred Mayerhofer, costumes
Christoph Jonas, choreography
Andreas Grüter, light
Svenja Gottsmann, dramaturgy
Andrea Sanguineti, conductor
Rustam Samedov, director of choir
Chor der Oper Köln
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248 (Kantate 1 - 3)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Kantate "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag" BWV 63
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Silke Gäng, alto
Mauro Peter, tenor
Lisandro Abadie, bass
Gewandhaus Orchester
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Andreas Reize, conductor
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Soloists of the NDR Vokalensembles
NDR Vokalensemble
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Klaas Stok, artistic direction
Nikolaus Habjan, actor and puppeteer
Simon Meusburger, staging
Habjan's solo performance of the life story of Friedrich Zawrel, tortured in Nazi Austria by the "expert" prison doctor who officially met him again in the later Republic and locked him away once more, is ingenious puppetry for a story that no other genre could have handled so coherently. With sparingly dosed film inserts and linguistically and playfully sovereign handling of the angular loudmouth characters, it became grandiose documentary and emotional theatre in mutual embrace, which was awarded the Nestroy Prize.
ngelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Nicole Chirka, Hänsel
Nikola Hillebrand, Gretel
Markus Marquardt, Peter (father)
Christa Mayer, Gertrud (mother)
Jordanka Milkova, witch
Johannes Wulff-Woesten, conductor
Katharina Thalbach, staging
Hans-Georg Wegner, dramaturgy
Childrens choir der Semperoper Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Dancer of the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden
Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248 (Kantate 1 - 3)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Kantate "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag" BWV 63
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Silke Gäng, alto
Mauro Peter, tenor
Lisandro Abadie, bass
Gewandhaus Orchester
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Andreas Reize, conductor