Joseph Woelfl: Das schöne Milchmädchen oder Der Guckkasten

In the organizer's words:

In 2024, after 225 years, the private opera is bringing Joseph Woelfl's Das schöne Milchmädchen oder Der Guckkasten back to the stage in a production by Ramona Bartsch and under the musical direction of Lars Straehler-Pohl. Between urban space and supposed rural idyll, the characters move between knowledge and ignorance, secret plan and publicity. Joseph Woelfl weaves the music to Joseph Richter's libretto with Viennese classicism behind him and romanticism before his eyes. Woelfl, a star in his lifetime from 1773 to 1812, who was in and out of the Mozart family home and fought a legendary piano duel with Beethoven, is an insider tip today and will be remembered tomorrow.

Since 2014, the Privatoper Berlin has been bringing rarely performed operas to places where operas are rarely performed. Founded by a group of music enthusiasts, the ensemble creates a world within the opera and an opera within the world in a core rehearsal period of one week. The principle of private opera means an original, direct approach to music theater, creating opera by friends for friends and breathing a freedom in which experiments and discoveries are possible. In this freedom, the private opera has brought almost unperformed compositions to the stage, inspired operas with a new language or a new form, performed them for the first time or premiered them.

After years of rebuilding and joint adventures between E.T.A. Hoffmann and Documenta, the Private Opera is delighted to be back under the roof of the Z/KU (Center for Art and Urbanistics), creating opera by friends for friends, so to speak, for the consecration of the house.

Price information:

Tickets (18€, reduced 10€) by e-mail at karten[at]privatoper.de