Chlestakows Wiederkehr

Giselher Klebe
Operas Die Räuber (1957) Die tödlichen Wünsche (1959) Die Ermordung Cäsars (1959) Alkmene (1961) Figaro lässt sich scheiden (1963) Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1965) Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie (1969) Ein wahrer Held (1975) Das Mädchen aus Domrémy (1976) Das Rendezvous (1973) Der Jüngste Tag (1980) Die Fastnachtsbeichte (1983) Gervaise Macquart (1995) Chlestakows Wiederkehr (2008)
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Chlestakows Wiederkehr, op.149, (Khlestakov's Return) is an opera in three acts by Giselher Klebe. He also wrote the libretto, based on the play Der Revisor (The Government Inspector) by Nikolai Gogol. The work lasts about 70 minutes.

The opera premiered on 11 April 2008 at the Landestheater Detmold, Germany. It is Klebe's first and only comedic opera. His adaptation of the text is only loosely based on Gogol and adds a significant twist in the final scene.

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 11 April 2008[1] Conductor:Erich Wächter [2]
Anton Antonowitsch Swosnik, Town Governor	baritone	Andreas Jören [3]
Ammos Fjordorowitsch Ljapkin, Judge	tenor	Byoung Oh Kim [4]
Luka Lukitsch, School Inspector	baritone	Joachim Goltz [5]
Artemij Filipowitsch Semljnanika, Superintendent for the Homeless and the Old	bass	Vladimir Miakotine [6]
Iwan Kusmitsch Schpekin, Post Master	tenor	Snorri Wium [7]
Natascha Andrejewna, Town Governor's wife	mezzo-soprano	Brigitte Bauma [8]
Olga Antonowna, Town Governor's daughter)	soprano	Kirsten Höner zu Siederdissen [9]
Iwan Alexandrowitsch Chlestakow, a young man from Petersburg	tenor	Johannes Harten [10]
Ossip, Chlestakow's servant	tenor	Markus Gruber [11]
Mischka, the Town Governor's servant		Kevin Dickmann
Stephan Iwanowitsch Koropkin, Innkeeper
Policeman	spoken role
Director		Kay Metzger[12]
Stage & Costume Design		Petra Mollérus[13]
Dramaturgy		Elisabeth Wirtz

The role names above are spelled as in the German text.

References

1. ^ "Besetzung für Chlestakows Wiederkehr (Cast for Khlestakov's Return)". Landestheater Detmold. http://www.landestheater-detmold.de/index.php?id=63&no_cache=1&tx_txtheater_pi2%5BTID%5D=426. Retrieved 2008-03-04. 
2. ^ Cast for Khlestakov's Return
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13. ^ Cast for Khlestakov's Return

External links

• Performance review: Jungheinrich, Hans-Klaus (April 2008). "Weltliteratur mit Drehung" (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau. http://www.fr-online.de/_inc/_globals/print.php?sid=ae80485da84066a3174b3165aae6ddd7&em_cnt=1318312&em_ref=/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton&em_ivw=fr_feuilleto&em_client=fr&em_site_color=1&em_site_style=1&em_site_template=1&em_site_text=1. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
• Interview: Stuke, Franz R. (11 April 2008). "Ohne Melodie geht’s nicht" (in German). Opernnetz.de. http://www.opernnetz.de/seiten/backstage/klebe%20giselher.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-15.