Opera

Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Viktor Ullmann

10 Jun, 16 - 18 Jun, 16

Musical conductor: Pedro Halffter

Stage Director: Gustavo Tambascio

The composer was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg and later an assistant to Zemlinsky in Prague. His career as a composer was cut short due to the tragedy of the Holocaust.  Ullmann's Jewish heritage made him a prisoner of Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. This was a place where many artists were held before being murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. While Ullmann was in the concentration camp, he composed The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death (1943), a work with echoes of Weill, Hindemith and Viennese Expressionism. The plot is a grotesque portrait of a tyrant in which many saw a caricature of the Nazi dictator. The protagonist forces humanity to indulge in a massacre but Death prevents the injured from dying. The piece was praised as "the abdication of death when faced with the universal horrors of life". As a result, the première at the camp was forbidden. With his sardonic sense of humor, stage director Gustavo Tambascio draws out the harsh and acrid meaning from this macabre satire.

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Subtitles in

Spanish, English

 
PRÓLOGO

El canto de amor y muerte del corneta Christoph Rilke
12 fragmentos del poema de Rainer Maria Rilke para narrador y orquesta (1944)

El emperador de la Atlántida.
El emperador de la Atlántida.
El emperador de la Atlántida.
       

Synopsis of Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Prólogo

El canto de amor y muerte del corneta Christoph Rilke
12 fragmentos del poema de Rainer Maria Rilke para narrador y orquesta (1944)

Música de Viktor Ullmann
Texto de Rainer Maria Rilke
Versión española de Jesús Munárriz
Reconstrucción de Henning Brauel

Narradora: Blanca Portillo

Estreno​ en España
 

Adagio in memoriam Ana Frank

basada en un movimiento de la Sonata para piano nº7 de Viktor Ullmann (1944/2015) 

Música de Viktor Ullmann​ y Pedro Halffter​. Orquestación de Pedro Halffter

Estreno​ absoluto​
 

Pequeña obertura para 'El emperador de la Atlántida'

basada en un movimiento de la Sonata para piano nº7 de Viktor Ullmann (1944/2015) 

Música de Viktor Ullmann​ y Pedro Halffter​. Orquestación de Pedro Halffter

Estreno​ absoluto​

El emperador de la Atlántida, op. 49 (1943/2015)

Música de Viktor Ullmann. Revisión y orquestación de Pedro Halffter.
Ópera en un acto y cuatro escenas
Libreto de Peter Kien
Reconstrucción de Henning Brauel

Estrenada según la versión de Kerry Woodward en el Bellevue Theatre de Ámsterdam, el 16 de diciembre de 1975

Estreno absoluto de la nueva versión en el Teatro Real

Artistic information

Artistic team

Musical conductor Pedro Halffter

Stage Director Gustavo Tambascio

Escenografía Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda

Figurines Jesús Ruiz

Iluminación Felipe Ramos

Cast

Emperor Overall Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester

Loudspeaker Martin Winkler

Death Torben Jürgens

Pierrot Der Kaiser von Atlantis

A soldier Albert Casals

A maiden Ruth Iniesta

A maiden Sonia de Munck

Drummer girl Ana Ibarra

Releases

Patron friends

27 February

2016

Subscribers friend

03 March

2016

Tickets on sale

08 March

2016

Performances

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10 June 2016

22:00

Main Auditorium

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Sonia de Munck, Ana Ibarra
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12 June 2016

20:00

Main Auditorium

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Sonia de Munck, Ana Ibarra
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14 June 2016

22:00

Main Auditorium

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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16 June 2016

22:00

Main Auditorium

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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18 June 2016

22:00

Main Auditorium

Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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2016

12:55

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Concierto de Angela Denoke con obras de Kurt Weill.

08

June

2016

Los Domingos de Cámara

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Programa dedicado a la "Música degenerada".
Solistas de la Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
 

12

June

2016

12:00

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