Weihnachtsoratorium I-VI

In the organizer's words:

With the "Christmas Oratorio" John Neumeier presents a ballet that fits the festive season not only by its musical mood, but also by its theme. To Johann Sebastian Bach's oratorio he choreographed a timeless story about trust and confidence, about inner contemplation and universal joy, which interprets and continues Bach's music and texts.


Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography, costumes and lighting: John Neumeier
Stage design: Ferdinand Wögerbauer

3 hours 15 minutes | 1 intermission
1st part: 80 minutes, 2nd part: 75 minutes

PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE - Parts I-III:
Hamburg Ballet, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, December 12, 2007

ORIGINAL CAST:
a man: Lloyd Riggins
the mother: Anna Polikarpova
her husband: Peter Dingle
a shepherd: Carsten Jung
angels: Silvia Azzoni, Arsen Megrabian*

Kusha Alexi
Edvin Revazov
Anna Laudere**
Dario Franconi

*for the sick Thiago Bordin
**for the ill Barbora Kohoutková

world premiere performance - complete works, parts I-VI:
Hamburg Ballet, Hamburg, December 8, 2013.

ORIGINAL CAST:
a man: Lloyd Riggins
the mother: Anna Laudere
her husband: Edvin Revazov
a shepherd: Carsten Jung
angels: Silvia Azzoni, Alexandr Trusch
the three wise men: Marc Jubete, Sasha Riva, Thomas Stuhrmann
the king: Dario Franconi

Leslie Heylmann
Lennart Radtke
Yuki Oishi
Silvano Ballone

GUEST PERFORMANCE:
2007, 2009 and 2014 Vienna 2015 Baden-Baden