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Ernst Krenek
KARL V. / KEHRAUS UM ST. STEPHAN
Karl V.
Karl V. – Dietrich Henschel
Juana – Chariklia Mavropoulou
Eleonore – Nicola Beller-Carbone
Ferdinand – Hubert Francis
Isabella – Cassandra McConnell
Juan de Regla – Moritz Führmann
Henri Mathys – Andreas Herrmann
Francisco Borgia – Christoph Homberger
Franz I. – Matthias Klink
Frangipani – Alexander Mayr
Papst Clemens VII. – Christoph Homberger
Sängerensemble der Stadt Katowice "Camerata Silesia"
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Lothar Koenigs, conductor
Uwe Eric Laufenberg, stage director
Gisbert Jäkel, set design
Antje Sternberg, costumes
Wolfgang Göbbel, light design
Filmed at the Bregenzer Festspiele, 2008
Kehraus um St. Stephan
Othmar Brandstetter – Roman Sadnik
Sebastian Kundrather – Albert Pesendorfer
Ferdinand – Christian Drescher
Maria – Andrea Bogner
Alfred Koppreiter – Sebastian Holecek
Mortiz Fekete – Michael Kraus
Emmerich von Kereszthely – Wolfgang Gratschmaier
Elisabeth – Elisabeth Flechl
Nora Rittinghaus – Elisabeth Wolfbauer
Herr Kabulke – Lars Woldt
Oberwachmann Sachsl – Gerhard Ernst
Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra
John Axelrod, conductor
Michael Scheidl, stage director
Nora Scheidl, set and costume design
Markus Holdermann, light design
Filmed at the Bregenzer Festspiele, 2008
Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.1 (Karl V only)
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Menu languages: German, English, French
Subtitles: German, English, French
Running time: 140 mins (Karl V) / 148 mins (St. Stephan)
No. of DVDs: 2 (DVD 9)
Ernst Krenek was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Franz Schreker at the Vienna Music Academy, following his teacher in 1920 to the Berlin Musikhochschule, where his musical style began to develop in other directions. His compositions of the 1920s won him a reputation as an enfant terrible, bringing international success with his jazz opera Jonny spielt auf, and in the 1930s a change to serial composition, notably in the opera Karl V, withdrawn through political intrigue from a planned staging in Vienna in 1934. His opposition to National Socialism and the Anschluss led him to emigrate in 1938 to America, where he enjoyed a career of distinction as a teacher and as a prolific composer, exploring the possibilities of serialism and other contemporary techniques of composition.
