Rummelplatz

Name: Rummelplatz
Brand: Schott Music
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Opera based on a novel by Werner Bräunig

Libretto by Jenny Erpenbeck

Edition: Performance material

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Rummelplatz [Fairground] is set in the period before the East German uprising of 1953. The opera is focused on a younger generation living in the early days of the GDR [German Democratic Republic], the post-war state which, in the aftermath of the destruction wreaked by World War II and Russian occupation, offered a vision for a better future. In an attempt to escape from the harsh daily working conditions in the uranium mining industry, friends meet up at a fairground which becomes the location for orgiastic celebration, drinking alcohol and trialling their strength.The fairground is also a place of refuge and a drug of derestriction: an escape from a lack of perspective and narrow lives, avoiding the traumas of post-war social disintegration and Nazi terror, and a place where young people can indulge in friendship, love and sex. Ludger Vollmer

Orchestral Cast

3 (2. auch Altfl., 3. auch Picc.) · 3 (3. auch Engl. Hr.) · 3 (2. auch Es-Klar., 3. auch Bassklar.) · 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 · 3 (1. auch Picc.-Trp.) · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Glsp. · Crot. · Xyl. · Vib. · Röhrengl. · Trgl. · Beckenpaar · hg. Beck. · Hi-Hat · Schlittengl. · Kuhgl. · Tamt. · kl. Tr. · 2 Tomt. (hoch/tief) · Floor Tom · gr. Tr. mit Beck. · Guiro · Mar. · Ratsche · Kast. · Claves · 2 Holzbl. (hoch/tief) · Pfeife · Peitsch · Flexaton · Agogos · Cuica · Schusswaffe (3 Spieler) - Hfe. · Klav. (auch Keyboard) - Str. (12 · 10 · 8 · 6 · 4)

Cast

Peter Loose, a young man in his mid-20s, with a lot of life experience, large part · baritone - Ruth Fischer, a self-confident young woman, daughter of Hermann Fischer, large part · dramatic soprano - Christian Kleinschmidt, a young man, high school graduate, large part · countertenor - Ingrid, a young woman, works as a waitress in a railway station pub, medium part · lyric mezzo-soprano - Hermann Fischer, Steiger, widowed communist who served time in a concentration camp, large part · bass-baritone - Polotnikov, Soviet head of Wismut, small part · bass - camp administrator, small part · bass - Nickel, a former communist who has returned from Soviet emigration, small part · tenor - Jungandres, a mining engineer in his mid-40s, small part · baritone - Heidewitzka, a miner, small part · tenor - Spiess, a miner, small part · baritone - Father Kleinschmidt, small part · baritone - 3 garish girls, in the station lime and at the fair, small parts · colouratura soprano, soprano, mezzo-soprano - 3 giants, violent figures · narrator - 2 Soviets, military stripes · silent parts - various other miners - chorus soloists - men's (possibly also ladies’) ballet - male chorus - female chorus - children's chorus

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Title:

Rummelplatz

Opera based on a novel by Werner Bräunig

Libretto by Jenny Erpenbeck

Language:

German

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Publishing year:

2025

Year of composition:

2024 - 2025

Duration:

120 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

September 20, 2025 · Chemnitz (D)
Theater Chemnitz, Opernhaus
Conductor: Benjamin Reiners
Original staging: Frank Hilbrich · Costumes: Gabriele Rupprecht · Set design: Volker Thiele
(scenic)

Commissioned work :

Auftragswerk des Theaters Chemnitz