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Battersea Arts Centre
Lavender Hill
Wandsworth
London
SW11 5TN
England
Tickets
Prices: from £19 to £32
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Programme
Jacques Offenbach – Die Rheinnixen
Performers
Max Hoehn – stage director
Hannah von Wiehler – Music Director
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Programme Note
Unconventional opera company Gothic Opera returns to Battersea Arts Centre this Halloween, this time with the UK staged premiere of Die Rheinnixen (The Nixies of the Rhine), an unjustly neglected, Romantic work by Jacques Offenbach.
Die Rheinnixen, which is Offenbach’s first take on grand opera, encompasses the growing nationalism of its time, as well as the genre’s fascination with the supernatural. Gothic Opera is delighted to be staging this horror story for the first time in the UK.
In the capable hands of the award-winning international stage director Max Hoehn, the evocative crumbling architecture of Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall will be transformed into the time of the Weimar Republic, a period of nationalism and unease.
In a bold production that will speak to our current times, Gothic Opera will be joined by exciting conductor Hannah von Wiehler, who has a very busy career across Europe. Leon Haxby, the young composer whose previous work for the company was praised in Opera magazine for its “haunting magic” and “compassionate insight,” has created a new chamber orchestration of the opera for seven instruments. A cast of talented singers will bring the characters and story to life.
Die Rheinnixen performance details:
30th October, 7.30pm
31st October, 7.30pm
1st November, 7.30pm
2nd November, 5.00pm
Sung in German with English surtitles.
