Ballet by John Neumeier | Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky
Alexandr Trusch
Principal
BORN
26.6.89 in Dnipropetrovsk. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Kevin Haigen, Marianne Kruuse, Christian Schön, Irina Jacobson
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2007, Soloist in 2010, Principal since 2014
CREATIONS
Vaslav Nijinsky as a student in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Hermes' Attendant in "Orpheus"
A Shy Young Man in "Liliom"
Angel in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatiana"
The Soldier (Luciano Nicastro) in "Duse"
Prince Désiré in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Purgatorio
Beethoven Project II
The Rain (Miljana Vracaric)
Let's Keep it Black (Orkan Dann)
Zozula (Edvin Revazov)
Renku (Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
Into this Wild Abyss (Braulio Alvarez)
Solo for Two (Konstantin Tselikov)
Vesna (Edvin Revazov)
REPERTORY
Joseph in "The Legend of Joseph"
A Young Man (Daphnis) in "Daphnis and Chloe"
Vaslav Nijinsky and Leonid Massine in "Nijinsky"
Günter and Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Vaslav Nijinsky in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
Des Grieux and Count N. in "Lady of the Camellias"
Philostrat/Puck and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Allan Gray in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Bohort in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Louis in "Liliom"
Arlequin in "Carnaval" and The Spirit of the rose in "Le Spectre de la rose" in "Nijinsky"
Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Ler Beau in "As You Like It"
Cassio in "Othello"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
Peer's Aspect – Vision in "Peer Gynt"
Man I and Love in "Bernstein Dances"
Hamlet in "Hamlet 21"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
Prince Désiré and Catalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Odysseus in *Odyssey"
Alexei Vronsky in "Anna Karenina"
Pas de deux of the Scotts in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Man in Brick and Brown in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Shy Boy in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Gennaro in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Prince Florizel in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Edward Rochester in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Saint Matthew Passion
Vaslav
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
La Vivandière (Pierre Lacotte after Arthur Saint-Léon)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
AWARD
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2010
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Romola Nijinsky
Alessandra Ferri
Guest Dancer
Described by the New York Times as 'one of the greatest dramatic dancers of all time' Alessandra was born in Milan. She began her training at the school of Teatro alla Scala and then attended the Royal Ballet School in London. In 1980, Ms. Ferri won the prestigious Prix de Lausanne and joined the Royal Ballet that same year. In 1983, she rose to prominence when Sir Kenneth MacMillan selected the 19-year-old dancer for leading roles in his ballets "Romeo and Juliet", "Manon" and "Mayerling". Sir Kenneth went on to choreograph a number of roles for Ms. Ferri making her the youngest principal dancer with the company. In 1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Ms. Ferri to join American Ballet Theatre, where she danced as a principal until 2007. Ms Ferri was named Prima Ballerina Assoluta at Teatro alla Scala in 1992. Ms. Ferri has worked with many of the great choreographers of our time including Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier, Jerome Robbins, Anthony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, Roland Petit, Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe and Twyla Tharp. In 2006 Ms. Ferri was presented the "Cavaliere della Repubblica Honoris" by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. She has also received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Dance Magazine Award, the Prix Benois de la Danse and Sir Lawrence Olivier Award in 1983 and 2016.
She has been the Director of Dance Programming at the Spoleto Festival from 2008-2014 where she conceived and choreographed the dance play "The Piano Upstairs". In the same year at The Signature Theater she appeared in the new creation "Chéri" where she played Lea. In 2015, Wayne McGregor created for her the role of Virgina Woolf in "Woolf Works" at the Royal Ballet, and John Neumeier the role of Eleonora Duse in "Duse" with the Hamburg Ballet. In 2018 Wayne McGregor created for Ms. Ferri and American Ballet Theatre "Afterite". In January 2019 she opened the new Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London with "Trio ConcertDance". In June 2021 she adds another significant role to her repertoire in Maurice Béjart's "L'heure exquise" inspired by Samuel Beckett's play "Oh les beaux jours" and in the same year she danced in the revival of "Les Chaises" with Béjart Ballet Lausanne.
photo: Lucas Chilczuk
Conductor
Constantin Trinks
Conductor
Constantin Trinks is a regular quest conductor with opera houses around the world. Highlights of 2018/19 include productions of "The Turn of the Screw" for Seattle Opera, "Lustige Witwe" for Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and "Arabella" for Bayerische Staatsoper (Arabella is also performed in Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris in January 2019), "Lohengrin" for National Theatre Prague (revived after a hugely successful run in 2017/18 which included a performance in the Prague Spring Festival) and "Euryanthe" for Theater an der Wien.
Operatic highlights of recent seasons have included Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Der Fliegende Holländer), New National Theatre Tokyo (Le nozze di Figaro), Opernhaus Zürich (The Turn of the Screw), Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg (Salome), Opéra National de Paris (Die Zauberflöte), Wiener Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt and Staatsoper Hamburg, the Ring-Trilogie (which was developed especially for the Theater an der Wien by Tatiana Gürbaca, Bettina Auer and Constantin Trinks, with ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir), "Così fan tutte" and "Arabella" for Bayerische Staatsoper (the latter as part of the Münchner Opernfestspiele), and "Tristan und Isolde" for Staatstheater Kassel.
Acknowledged as a major Wagner conductor, Trinks celebrated the Wagner Bicentenary conducting "Der fliegende Holländer" in Dresden (in Spring 2013 - premiered there 170 years before), "Tannhäuser" in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Frankfurt, as well as Wagner's early opera "Das Liebesverbot" at the Bayreuth Festival and for Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Similarly active on the orchestral platform, upcoming engagements include Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hessischer Rundfunk, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Brucknerhaus Linz, Vancouver Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, the orchestra of den Norske Opera and Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester with whom the live recording of Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1 received an ECHO Classic in October 2017 for Profil Edition Hänssler. He made his debut in 2016/17 with the Baverische Rundfunk and, following an acclaimed debut with the Munich Philharmonic in 2015/16, he conducted their New Year Beethoven 9 concerts in December 2016. His acclaimed recording with Dresden Staatskapelle/ Semperoper of Weinberger's "Svanda dudák" (Schwanda the Bagpiper) is also for Profil Edition Hänssler.
Trinks joined the Saarländisches Staatstheater in 2002 as Kapellmeister, ascending within a few years into the position of interim music director from 2006 to 2009. Whilst there he conducted Nono's "Intolleranza 1960", "La bohème", "Don Giovanni", "Die Zauberflöte", "Das Rheingold", "Lohengrin", "Salome", "Carmen", "Don Carlo", "La traviata", "Cavalleria rusticana" / "I pagliacci", "Kullervo" (Sallinen), and the European premiere of "The First Emperor" by Tan Dun, thus demonstrating his interest in wide-ranging repertoire.
In 2009 Trinks was appointed Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, where his productions included not only his first critically acclaimed "Der Ring des Nibelungen", but also "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", "Parsifal", "Fidelio", "Aida" and the world premiere of Orff's early work "Gisei" (available on DVD) in combination with "De temporum fine comoedia".
Constantin Trinks, born in Karlsruhe, studied conducting at the Conservatory of his hometown with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, and piano with Günter Reinhold. Major musical influences come from Thomas Hengelbrock and Christian Thielemann, combining important insights into historically informed performance practice as well as a strong romantic line.
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Orchestra
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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photo: Foto: Felix Broede
