An important objective of the Rheinsberg Opera Workshop is to offer the opera excerpts to opera theaters. That's already been successful:

• Grete Minde by Soren Nils Eichberg was premiered in Tangermünde on the occasion of the 1000 anniversary of Tangermünde on 8 September 2009 .
• Dark red by Karola Obermüller and Gabriele Strassmann was in September 2007 at the Staatstheater Nuremberg premiered.
• The Bestmannoper by Alex Nowitz and Ralph Hammerthaler was on 8 April 2006 premiered at the Theater Osnabrück. This was followed by eight performances in the „Großen Haus“ of this theater.
• Mark Möbius erhielt auf Grund seines Rheinsberger Debüts als Opernkomponist einen Kompositionsauftrag vom Land Rheinland-Pfalz. Die so entstandene Oper Idilia erlebte im September 2005 der Festung auf Ehrenbreitstein ihre Uraufführung (Inszenierung Georges Delnon). Der Komponist Mark Möbius ist in der Spielzeit 2006/2007 Composer in Residence am Theater Heidelberg.
• Mark Möbius was contracted as a composer from the land Rheinland-Pfalz on the basis of his Rheinberger debuts as an opera composer. The resulting opera Idilia was premiered in September 2005 on the Festung auf Ehrenbreitstein (staging: Georges Delnon ). Composer Mark Möbius is in the 2006/2007 season Composer in Residence at the Theater Heidelberg.
• In April 2005, „The Patient“ by Thomas Bartel was permiered on the Studiobühne of the Theater Regensburg.

Past performances in Rheinsberg:

III. Opera Workshop Rheinsberg 2007/2008:

SEHNSÜCHTE
Musical Director: Alexander Hannemann
Musical Assitance: Symeon Ioannidis, Arno Waschk
Director: Cornelia Heger
Stage and Costumes: Stefan Bleidorn
Mentoring Composition: Siegfried Matthus, Detlev Glanert, Ingo Ingensand
Dramaturgical advice: Ilse Winter; Project management: Ute Schindler

Soilists:
Paula Rummel, soprano; Angellica Böttcher, mezzo-soprano; Ewa Zakrzewska, alt; Hartmut Kühn, tenor; Florian Frittz Götz, baritone; Martin Wistinghausen, bass
Three Nornen: Janine Tietze, Elisa Müller, Teresa Hoerl

Scenes from:

The love of Yumi by Seunglim Kim / Dagmar Penzlin
South Korea in the 80s. Fast economic growth. Politics and economics in a symbiotic relationship. The gap between rich and poor unbridgeable. In this field there the siblings Yumi and Duhan.

Michael Kohlhaas by Thomas Bartel / Sylvia Adler
The figure of Michael Kohlhaas has two faces: one contributes almost medieval trains, the other seems perplexing actual. The focus of the opera Kohlhaas is the relationship between the individual and society.

The girl ' Fragrant Spring ' by Ji-Won Kwon / Constanze John
The girl ' Fragrant Spring ' - based on an old Korean fairy tale that belongs to this day to a living cultural treasure.

The Mask of Red Death by Peter Francesco Marino
According to a story by E. A. Poe
A group of nobles under the Prince Prospero hides themselves in a fortress from the raging plague. They celebrate festivals - until the Red Death is coming ... The red death can be interpreted different, the plague is a metaphor for diseases of various kinds - medical, political, moral.

Traumwelten by Martin Wistinghausen
In Ingeborg Bachmann's radio play „Ein Geschäft mit Träumen“ the protagonist Laurenz enters a shop of dreams and gets offered a collection of dreams. The story is based on this absurd idea. The offered dreams are depending on various text sources. For the performance is selected the scene „train-dream“ from Günther Eich radio play „Träume“.

 

II. Opera Workshop Rheinsberg 2005:

„Traeum’ mich wach“
Conductor: Ferenc Gabor;
Director: Marcelo Cardoso Gama;
Scenery: Mathias Ruemmler;
Mentoring composition: Siegfried Matthus;
Mentoring conductor, performance practice: Ingo Ingensand;
Mentoring director and Libretti: Carin Marquardt;
Project management: Ute Schindler

Soloist:
Inga Lisa Lehr, Nathalie Senf, Daniela Pech, Florian Hoffmann, Matthias Flohr, Marc Andre Uelner; Camerata Rheinsberg, Music rehearsing and piano: Olav Kroeger, Maria Grimm

Scenes out:
"Dunkelrot" by Karola Obermüller / Gabriele Strassmann
"Morbus Teutonicus" by Alexander Strauch / Siegfried Gerlich
"Helle Naechte" by Peter Sabbagh / Volkhardt Preuß
"Kater, erzaehl mir ein Märchen!" by Mario Wiegand / Marec Bela Steffens
"Grete Minde" by Soren Nils Eichberg / Constanze John
"Hyazinth" by Peter F. Marino / Gabriele Strassmann

 
I. Opera Workshop Rheinsberg 2004

Vielleicht war ich ein Azteke
Conductor / Mentoring performance practice: Ingo Ingensand;
Director /Mentoring Libretti: Carin Marquardt;
Scenery: Manfred Kaderk, Uta Heisecke (Assistance);
Project management: Ute Schindler

Soloist:
Agnieszka Piass, Marie-Thérèse von Seyfried, Claudia Herr, Sibylle Hummel, Hartmut Kühn, Gabriel Urrutia Benet, Michael Eberle, Volker Giese, Lars Grünwoldt, Hubert Wild;

Camerata Rheinsberg;
Music rehearsing and piano, Synthesizer: Alexander Hannemann, Olav Kröger

Scenes out:
"Die Bestmannoper" by Alex Nowitz / Ralph Hammerthaler:
"The Spoiled Show" by Milica Paranosic (in engl. Sprache)
"Mein Gesicht - Columbine" by Gordon Kampe:
"Vielleicht war ich ein Azteke" by Michael Bastian Weiß
"Der Patient" by Thomas Bartel / Paula Köhler
"Polarlicht" by Mark Möbius