Frühlingsstürme (Spring Storms)

The “last operetta of the Weimar Republic” returns!

The “last operetta of the Weimar Republic” returns! Created by the extremely successful Jewish-Czech composer Jaromír Weinberger, Spring Storms was premiered on January 20,1933 at the Admiralspalast in Berlin, almost one month after Paul Abraham’s Ball at the Savoy and ten days before the National Socialists seized power. On March 12,1933 the curtain fell permanently and irrevocably on this operetta. Now, 87 years later, the curtain will rise again for Barrie Kosky’s new production!

Although the standard pattern for roles in an operetta is retained, with a lyrical-dramatic couple and a buffo couple, the work in many ways breaks the usual forms: there are no long acts with ballet interludes any more, the chorus only sings offstage, the finales are taken on alone by the four soloists – and the leading role of General Katschalow is a speaking part. Jaromír Weinberger’s music shows mastery of the genre’s rhythmically exhilarating sounds as well as its dramatic aspects. The work combines orchestral representations of nature (the spring storms!), musical exoticism, and song-like melodies that meet late-romantic instrumentation – which, due to the missing original score, was specially reconstructed for the new production.

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English title SPRING STORMS
Original title FRÜHLINGSSTÜRME
Genre Operetta
Recording location Komische Oper Berlin
Production year 2020
Duration approx. 130 min
Video format HD
Production Company NAXOS AUDIOVISUAL DIVISION
TV Director Götz Filenius
Stage Director Barrie Kosky
Choreography by Otto Pichler
Composer Jaromír Weinberger
Orchestra / Band Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Conductor Jordan de Souza
Main Actor GENERAL WLADIMIR KATSCHALOW Stefan Kurt
Soloist TATJANA Alma Sadé
Soloist LYDIA PAWLOWSKA Vera-Lotte Boecker
Soloist RODERICH ZIRBITZ Dominik Köninger
Soloist ITO Tansel Akzeybek
Distribution TV NAXOS AUDIOVISUAL DIVISION
Distribution homevideo / DVD NAXOS AUDIOVISUAL DIVISION
Distribution VOD / SVOD NAXOS AUDIOVISUAL DIVISION