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| Malte Roesner, Markus Schneider (Photo © Volker Beinhorn) |
Last month,
we posted about barihunk Malte Roesner starring in the German language premiere of Jake Heggie's chamber opera
For a Look or a Touch at the Staatstheater Braunschweig opening on May 2nd. We finally have some pictures of Roesner from the show.
Based on the true story of two teenage lovers that the Holocaust tore apart
forever, the dramatic song cycle
For a Look or a Touch casts
light on the fate of gay Germans in the Holocaust. The libretto, written
by Heggie's frequent collaborator Gene Scheer, juxtaposes the exuberant
freedom of pre-World War II Berlin
with the brutal Nazi horrors that followed, while making an impassioned
plea for remembrance.
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| Malte Roesner, Markus Schneider (Photo © Volker Beinhorn) |
Coming out of retirement to
portray Gad Beck, an eighty year old gay survivor of the Holocaust, is
famed German actor Jost Leers. Gad Beck is an 80-year-old survivor of
the Holocaust who is haunted by the memories of his first love Manfred,
who died in a concentration camp at age 19.
The piece will be performed along with Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s
Another Sunrise, a 17-minute music drama performed by chamber quintet and soprano. The two Heggie pieces with be performed with
Ilse, the story Ilse Koch, the wife of a camp commandant at Buchenwald, with text taken from the original trials.
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| Malte Roesner in For a Look or a Touch (Photo © Volker Beinhorn) |
There are additional performances of
For a Look or a Touch on May 7, 16, 23 and June 14, 24, 28. You can also catch Roesner at the Staatstheater Braunschweig in Werner Egk's operatic version of
Peer Gynt opening on May 17 and running through June 13. In July, he sings the role of Silvano at the theater in Verdi's
Un ballo in maschera, which opens on June 28 and running through July 20. Luca Grassi sings the role of Renato.
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