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 ...
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