Leyla und Medjnun
Austrian premiereIn German language with German surtitles
The most famous love story in Classical Arabian literature: Leyla loves Medjnun, but he is in love with love itself. Leyla thus realises that she as a person will have no place in the world of Medjnun’s verses …
Detlev Glanert’s first opera "Leyla and Medjnun" was first performed in 1988 at the Munich Biennale for Contemporary Music Theatre and is a sensual combination of Orient and Occident.
Cast
- Conductor
- Gerrit Prießnitz
- Stage direction and choreography
- Ruth Brauer-Kvam
- Stage and costume design
- Monika Rovan
- Video
- Philipp Haupt
- Leyla
- Mara Mastalir
- Medjnun
- Alexander Pinderak
- Leylas Mutter
- Manuela Leonhartsberger
- Medjnuns Vater / Jäger / Arzt
- Günter Haumer
- Schneider / Bräutigam / Krieger
- Mehrzad Montazeri
- Schuster
- Christian Drescher
- Schmied
- Daniel Ohlenschläger
- Morgenvogel
- Anna Nekhames
- Reh
- Johanna Arrouas
- Schüler, Tiere & Totenchor
- Ensemble
- Zenne, Erzähler
- Nicolaus Hagg
_Mara_Mastalir_(Le.jpg "Alexander Pinderak (Medjnun), Mara Mastalir (Leyla)")
_Ensemble.jpg "Mara Mastalir (Leyla), Ensemble")
_Alexander_Pinderak_(Medj.jpg "Mara Mastalir (Leyla), Alexander Pinderak (Medjnun), Ensemble")
