04.10.–15.11.2024 / Opera
Septembersonate
Manfred Trojahn
Wed 03.01.2024
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:00
Opera
Dates
19:30 - 21:00
Opera
19:30 - 21:00
For the last time this season Opera
Content
Who would I be if I had stayed back then?
Chamber play in six scenes
Text by the composer freely adapted from the story "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
Text by the composer freely adapted from the story "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
A man and a woman meet again after a long time. Decades have passed since she became an actress and he became a successful author, decades after they fell in love in their youth. Who would he have become if he had stayed? Would Ellice have loved the one who stayed? The mind game turns into a showdown to the death: in the gloomy halls of his childhood, Osbert meets the man his family wanted him to become. Manfred Trojahn's colourful, pulsating opera based on a story by Henry James is staged by Johannes Erath in a visually powerful universe of inner ghosts that are not so easy to shake off.