Stage Design
DER ZAR LÄSST SICH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN
Forum, Hamburg
What happens if a dictator is suddenly murdered? Will all our problems then be solved? The tsar of an unknown country is invited to a Parisian photo studio to have his portrait taken by the aspiring photographer Angèle. But the invitation is a trap set by a group of conspirators who take over the photo studio and manipulate the camera with a gun. And when the camera is triggered ... 3 .... 2 ... 1 ...
Kurt Weill's opera "Der Zar lässt sich photographieren" is a comical and tense focus on human desires. Its characters try to overcome the boundaries of social hierarchies and escape their social roles. But in the process, their dark sides come to light: abuse of power, perversion, selfish greed.
Photos: Marc Matthaei
Forum
HfMT
Premiere 31.01.2025
DIRECTOR Sang-jin Han
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Dulguun Chinchuluun
MUSICAL ASSISTANT & CONDUCTOR Sang-jun Han
STAGE DESIGN Emilia Bongilaj
COSTUME DESIGN Julia Radewald
LIGHT DESIGN & MAPPING Lennart Nielsen
VIDEO Marc Matthaei
DRAMATURGY Leonard Kaiser
CHOIR DIRECTION Paul Melissen
ARRANGEMENT TANGO Yixuan Hu
STAGE MANAGER Charlotte Wulff
MAKE UP Elisabeth Greck, Isabelle Michlik
ENSEMBLE
Maksymilian Skiba: Tsar
Taylor Haines: Angèle
Yanyan Cheng: Assistant
Lisa Kereselidze: Boy
Julia Siegwart: False Angèle
Changwook Jang: False Assistant
Hyunseo Lee: False Boy
Alexander Schuhmann: Accompanist to the Tsar
Nick Hohlbach: Official
Leona Trohl: Official
CHOIR
Christoph Dodenhoff, Seongjin Hong, Leeseok Kwon, Cedric Lies, Iván Ruge, Arthur Sebastião, Siqi Wang
ORCHESTRA
Seoyoung Choi, Simon Fengler, Daniel Heineken, Tami Kihara, Laura Köhler, Stanislava Korotkova, Julia Machemer, Lena Rehberg, Xinyu Shao, Jiwon Shin, Jonas Spanier, Malina With, Kim Wittenburg, Fabian Zwemke