Dennis Krauß stages “Tristan und Isolde” as a children's opera in Bayreuth
Wagner for children: A long-term cooperation between the Hanns Eisler directing course and the Bayreuth Festival
Stephen Gould, one of the world's most sought-after Wagner singers, is on stage in the Bayreuth Children's Opera - in a production by Eisler student and director Dennis Krauss. Since 2009, students and graduates of the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin have directed the Wagner Opera for Children at the Bayreuth Festival every year and can work with an outstanding cast. For already experienced directing students, the possibility of staging the children's opera as well as assistance in the current productions are a cornerstone for the career of music theater directors. In this festival season, Dennis Krauß is directing the children's opera “Tristan und Isolde”, in the version developed by Katharina Wagner, Markus Latsch and himself. The premiere will take place on July 25, 2021, 11 a.m., on the Kulturbühne Reichshof, followed by nine other performances. The Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt / Oder will play under the direction of the Austrian conductor Azis Sadikovic.
Within this university cooperation, regular excursions to the Bayreuth Festival are one of the most important stops for the Eisler directing course. Festival director Katharina Wagner has been honorary professor at the university since 2010 and gives workshops for students in Berlin, among other things. Since the first edition of the children's operas brought to life by the festival director, the directing students from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin have been there.
Dennis Krauß
Dennis Krauss was born in Berlin in 1991. He completed his bachelor's degree in musical theater directing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and is currently studying directing for a master’s degree. Dennis Krauß assisted directors such as Michael Thalheimer, Ersan Mondtag and Kay Voges at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Berliner Ensemble. From 2012 he showed his own directorial work at Heimathafen Neukölln and at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. At Schauspiel Frankfurt he staged Charles Dickens ’“ A Christmas Story ”(2015) and“ Caligula ”by Albert Camus (2017). Bertolt Brecht's “The Curriculum Vitae of Boxer Samson-Körner” (2018) was premiered at the Berliner Ensemble. In addition, Dennis Krauß has a continuous collaboration with the director Ulrich Rasche, whose artistic assistant he most recently worked at the Salzburg Festival, at the Residenztheater in Munich and at the Burgtheater in Vienna. www.denniskrauss.dehttps://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/programm/kinderoper/
Bayreuther Festspiele | Premiere | SO 25. Juli 2021, 11 H
Richard Wagner für Kinder: Tristan und Isolde
Version by Katharina Wagner, Markus Latsch, Dennis Krauss
Musical arrangement: Marko Zdralek
Musical direction: Azis Sadikovic
Production: Dennis Krauss
Stage design: Johanna Meyer
Light design: Peter Younes
Project management: Jakob Spitzlay
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder
BESETZUNG
Tristan Stephen Gould
Isolde Kelly God
König Marke Jens-Erik Aasbø
Kurwenal Kay Stiefermann
Brangäne Simone Schröder
Melot Martin Homrich