In Joseph Roth’s early novel, a hotel serves as a metaphor for a world unhinged by World War One. The experiences of exile and desolation are deeply inscribed in the text. Stranded characters, soldiers, bankrupts, more or less malevolent profiteers, both true and pretentious artists, and prostitutes have taken up their residence there. As if for the Messiah, they are all waiting for the arrival of the hotel owner, a billionaire named Bloomfield from America. Most prominently the war survivor Gabriel Dan. But Bloomfields plans for his visit are quite different from saving the Savoy Hotel and its guests ...
A Schauspiel Stuttgart and Staatsoper Stuttgart production
PREMIERE 21 July 2024 – 7.30 p.m.
DURATION approx. 150 minutes (with one intermission)
Or: I'll get you the blue from heaven
A hybrid operetta with the Musicbanda Franui (2024) Concept by Gwendolyne Melchinger, Corinna von Rad and Andreas Schett based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Roth (1924)
With music by Paul Abraham, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, Oscar Straus and others, edited by Markus Kraler and Andreas Schett
Sung in German
Cast
Musical Director Andreas Schett
Stage Director Corinna von Rad
Stage Designer Ralf Käselau
Costume Designer Sabine Blickenstorfer
Lightning Designer Felix Dreyer
Choreographer Altea Garrido
Dramaturge Gwendolyne Melchinger
Gabriel Dan Marco Massafra
Stasia, Zlotogor Josefin Feiler
Alexander Böhlaug, Militärarzt, Kanner Moritz Kallenberg
