| weisse rose |
- nmyrtidi
- Jan 10, 2017
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 8, 2022
opera direction
stage, costume & lighting design
Opera House of Cologne _ Cologne _ DE
2017
Awarded project
1st Prize | European Opera Directing Prize | 8th EOP | Theatro Real 2015_ Madrid ES
The | white rose | was presented at Opera House Cologne.
Ιt is an awarded project [1st Prize _ 8th European Opera Directing Prize]
Theatro Real_ Madrid _2015
the sand
the water
the story
The opera tells the story of real-life personages Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister in their early twenties, who were leading during World War II a non-violent resistance group against Hitler known under the code name of Die Weiße Rose (White Rose).
The brother and sister team was caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets and subsequently condemned to death. They were guillotined by the Nazis in 1943.
The first version of the opera in 1967 was not a big success. When Hamburg State Opera officials decided they wanted to revive the opera in the mid-1980s, Zimmerman decided to work on an entirely new opera. He discarded his brother's libretto in favor of a new text by Wolf-gang Willaschek. The new work is a one-act opera, consisting of a set of sixteen scenes, each a coherent musical unit, adding up to a total of seventy minutes. There are only two roles in the new opera, those of Hans and Sophie, and the "orchestra" is reduced to fifteen instrumentalists.
video _ Köln Oper_ 2017
Parts of the work | weisse rose | have been published in the print issues of magazines
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