Alma

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Opera by Ella Milch-Sheriff

In German language with German and English surtitles

Alma Mahler-Werfel: composer, muse, femme fatale – myth. Like no other, she is an imago of sensuality and a symbol of fin-de-siècle Vienna. The new opera Alma by the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff focuses on an aspect that has so far received little attention in the numerous artistic adaptations of Alma Mahler-Werfel’s biography: Alma, the mother.

With this world premiere, the Vienna Volksoper stages one of the city’s great female personalities through the eyes of a female composer.

Program and cast

Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber

Libretto: Ido Ricklin

Translation from Hebrew: Anke Rauthmann

Stage direction: Ruth Brauer-Kvam

Set design: Falko Herold

Costume design: Alfred Mayerhofer

Lighting design: Alex Brok

Choreography: Florian Hurler

Choir director: Holger Kristen

Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel (Schindler): Annette Dasch

Anna, Tochter von Mahler: Annelie Sophie Müller

Manon, Tochter von Gropius: Lauren Urquhart

Martin, Sohn von Werfel: Christopher Ainslie

Das Ungeborene von Kokoschka: Hila Baggio

Franz Werfel: Timothy Fallon

Walter Gropius: Florian Hurler

Oskar Kokoschka: Martin Winkler

Gustav Mahler: Josef Wagner

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The Volksoper is Vienna’s main stage for operetta, opera, musicals and ballet, offering sophisticated musical entertainment. Colourful, eclectic and full of vitality, it is the only theatre dedicated to the genre of operetta.

Operetta belongs to Vienna and Vienna installed it at the home of operetta, Volksopera Vienna, which thereupon became the leading operetta house in the world. First class singers, actors and dancers together with a versatile orchestra cunjure up a musical firework display every evening.

Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán wrote their world famous beloved melodies for operettas such as “The Fledermaus”, “The Merry Widow” and “The Csárdás Princess”. A visit to at least one of these operettas at the Volksopera Vienna is a must for every visitor to Vienna!

Also performed are operas from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as classic musicals and ballet. In addition, the Volksoper has a fifth longstanding and proven speciality: it stages soirées, cabaret and burlesque performances under the name of “Volksoper Spezial”.

In the repertory theatre, which seats 1,337 persons, some 300 performances of around 35 different productions are staged every year between September and June.

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