Hans Thomalla
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From September 2024 to July 2025 Hans Thomalla will be a fellow at the German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo.
Opera in 13 Scenes
Text by the composer and Juliana Spahr after Johann Wolfgang Goethes "Elective Affinities"
Song Lyrics by Joshua Clover
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"Musically and dramaturgically an absolutely convincing evening."
"Opera at the cutting edge as it is rarely found".
Deutschlandfunk
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"A very, very important piece."
SWR
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"Since opera is a genre about individually pronounced changes in one's condition, it must be interested in dementia. There aren't many examples for this yet, but Hans Thomalla's "Dark Fall" will be a decisive one."
Frankfurter Rundschau
"Extremely touching!"
Deutschlandfunk
"Estelle Kruger is with both her wonderfully rich soprano for which Thomalla has written the most beautiful emphatic melodies as well as with her performance as Ellen the center of the show."
Die Deutsche Bühne
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"A close relative of "Dark Spring", only darker, more melancholic, more nervous, in a word: more existential."
Opernwelt
Dark Fall
Nationaltheater Mannheim
(Video von Thimeo Hehl)