WOLFGANG RIHM Jakob Lenz Chamber Opera LenzJoachim Goltz, baritone Oberlin Patrick Zielke, bass Kaufmann Raphael Wittmer, tenor Voice Josefin Feiler • Rebecca Blanz, sopranos Marie-Belle Sandis • Maria Polanska, altos Serhii Moskalchuk • Marcel Brunner, basses Children Members of Children Choir of the Nationaltheater Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim Franck Ollu, conductor

Wolfgang Rihm’s opera Jakob Lenz, which received its world premiere at the Hamburg State Opera’s Opera stabile on 8 March 1979, can be understood as a palimpsest. Resembling a parchment on which writings of different ages overlap but always remain translucent, this opera is also the result of multiple layering: we see the historical figure of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz from ...more