Laura Claycomb Putting the color into coloratura

Coproduction Grand Théâtre de Genève / Komische Oper Berlin

Bizarre creatures emerging from the imagination of Dr John W Polidori and Mary Shelley create a gothic world intensified by Marschner’s sensitive music. Inspired by the Italian style and the German Singspiel, the work introduces modern aspects that strengthen the psychological dimension of the action and characters. The vampire, a creature locked outside the world of the living and the dead, seeks a home, and principally an identity, in a unique ambiance imbued with wild romanticism. The sacrificer becomes the sacrificed unless he can find the balance between Eros and Thanatos. Three virgins to be immolated in twenty-four hours…

Musical Director Dmitri Jurowski
Stage Director Antú Romero Nunes
Set Designer Matthias Koch
Costumes Designer Annabelle Witt
Lightning Designer Diego Leetz
Choreographer Ulrich Lenz

Lord Ruthven Tómas Tómasson
Sir Humphrey Davenaut Jens Larsen
Malwina Laura Claycomb
Sir Edgar Aubry Shawn Mathey
George Dibdin Ivan Turšic
Emmy Perth Maria Fiselier
Grand Théâtre Opera Chorus
Director Alan Woodbridge

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Conference by Christophe Imperiali in collaboration with the Association genevoise des Amis de l’Opéra et du Ballet
Wednesday 16 November 2016 6:15PM at the Théâtre de l’Espérance

Broadcast on Espace2
Saturday 10 December 2016 8PM.