Fiddler On The Roof - Savonlinnan Oopperajuhlat

Fiddler on the Roof

Jerry Bock - Sheldon Harnick

• Sunday 23.7.2023 klo 19:00 Buy
• Thursday 27.7.2023 klo 19:00 Buy
• Saturday 29.7.2023 klo 19:00 Buy
• Sunday 30.7.2023 klo 19:00 Buy

Fiddler On the Roof is the greatest musical of all time.

Days meld into one as sunrise follows sunset in the Ukrainian village of Anatevka in 1905. As a Jewish community in Imperial Russia, it’s set in its ways, from what people can eat to how they sleep, and how girls are successfully married off. Tevye the Milkman cherishes his Jewish roots, despite conflicts flaring up and the sense of doom brought by the approach of the Czar’s Gendarmerie.

Fiddler’s songs are a medley of melancholy and optimism. Tevye looks at the changes taking place around him through warm-hearted humour, always hoping for the best.

History repeats itself. Who are we allowed to be, and where are we allowed to live? Who are we allowed to love?

Fiddler on the Roof, or Anatevka, is performed in German.

Sunrise, sunset… Laiden with happiness and tears.  

Our visiting opera company this summer is Theater Hagen from the Ruhr region in Germany. The theatre is located in the midst of large cities in an area with a broad opera offering. Theater Hagen stands out from the crowd with its fresh, inventive repertoire.

See synopsis here.

Theater Hagen’s visit also brings us the new Finnish opera A Room of One’s Own and the dreamlike psychological drama Bluebeard’s Castle. See more here.

a medley of melancholy and optimism

Life in early 20th century Russia was full of tension. Pogroms, violent attacks on Jews, were intensifying, and the country was on the threshold of a revolution. As Tevye says:

”A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn’t easy.”

Tekijät

• Conductor

  Steffen Müller-Gabriel

• Director

  Thomas Weber-Schallauer

• Assistant Director

  Tobias Kramm

• Choreography

  Riccardo De Nigris

• Choreography assistant

  Amber Neumann

• Stage Design

  Alfred Peter

• Costumes

  Yvonne Forster

• Lighting

  Ernst Schießl

• Dramaturgy

  Rebecca Graitl

• Chorus master

  Wolfgang Müller-Salow

• Theater Hagen ChoirTheater Hagen BalletTheater Hagen extrasHagen Philharmonic Orchestra 

• Sung

  in German

• Surtitles

  in Finnish and English

• Duration

  app. 3 hours 15 minutes, one interval

Cast

Ansgar Schäfer

Tevye, a milkman

Kristine Larissa Funkhauser

Golde, Tevye’s wife

Rahel Wissinger

Tzeitel, Tevye’s daughter

Karina Kettenis

Hodel, Tevye’s daughter

Elizabeth Pilon

Chava, Tevye’s daughter

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Kristina Günther

Yente, matchmaker

Matthias Knaab

Motel, tailor

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Dorothee Ueter

Shandel, Motel’s mother

Manuel Heuser

Perchik, student

Ralf Grobel

Lazar Wolf, butcher

Richard van Gemert

Mordcha, tavern-keeper

Krzysztof Jakubowski

Rabbi

Dirk Achille

Mendel, Rabbi’s son

Bernd Stahlschmidt-Drescher

Avram, bookseller

Nina Andreeva

Tzeitel, Golde’s grandmother

Verena Grammel

Frume-Sarah, first wife of Lazar Wolf

Götz Vogelgesang

Yussel, Hatter

Christian Bergmann

Constable

Julien Blue Hirte

Fyedka, young Russian

Tobias Kramm

Sasha, Fedka’s friend

Anton Kuzenok

First Russian

Werner Köhn

Fiddler on the Roof

© Based on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl Book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick In German by Rolf Merz and Gerhard Hagen Produced on the New York stage by Harold Prince Original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins

Bluebeard’s Castle & A Room of One’s Own

26.7. – 28.7.2023

Based on Virginia Woolf’s text, A Room of One’s Own is a women’s opera about women. In a dreamlike psychological drama by Bartók, the orchestra weaves the fabric of the thriller.

The Barber of Seville

10.7. – 22.7.2023

Has Olavinlinna castle ever witnessed as much laughter before? As a comic masterpiece, the Barber is perfect for an exuberant summer evening.

The Magic Flute

4.7. – 21.7.2023

The Magic Flute celebrates its 50th anniversary in Olavinlinna castle. What’s the secret of it?

Romeo and Juliet

1.7. – 17.7.2023

New in 2023, Romeo and Juliet is a romantic French opera full of powerful emotions and music awash with love.

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