Hans Thomalla: Dark Fall

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Label: Oehms Classics
Release Date: September 18, 2026

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

Hans Thomalla
PERFORMER

Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim, Estelle Kruger, Uwe Eikotter, Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

September 18, 2026
UPC

4260034869790
CATALOG NUMBER

OC 2000
LABEL

Oehms Classics
NUMBER OF DISCS

2
GENRE

Opera / Operetta / Oratorio

Works ⌄

Act I: One, two, three, four (Ellen, Curtis, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Uwe Eikötter, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Aria: Why Don't You Listen? (Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: When you've reached my age (Ellen, Ilse, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Aria: Why Should I Listen? (Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Duet: How Will I Survive… Wednesday We Smash the Patriarchy!… (Ellen, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Aria: What Is Going On With You, Ellen? (Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: You must be Owen (Ilse, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Learn This, Do That! (Owen, Ilse, Ellen, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Thomas Berau, Lila Chrisp, Estelle Kruger, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Welcome! (Curtis, Owen, Ilse, Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter, Thomas Berau, Lila Chrisp, Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Quartet: Wednesday We Smash the Patriarchy! (Ellen, Ilse, Owen, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act I: Interlude 1

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Look, these journals (Ilse, Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp, Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Aria: Sometimes I Feel (Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: It looks like the attempt to put order in all your things (Owen, Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Thomas Berau, Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Duet: Nothing Seems As It Used To Be (Ellen, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Look! It's Curtis, you, and me! (Ellen, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Ellen, what happened here? (Curtis, Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter, Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Aria: I Do This! (Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: I will clean up now (Ellen, Curtis, Owen, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Uwe Eikötter, Thomas Berau, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Quartet: Elective Affinity! (Ellen, Ilse, Owen, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Duet: I Feel That I've Begun To Disappear (Ellen, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Aria: I Am Become Cerberus With Three Heads (Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: The past months must have been difficult (Ilse, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Duet: You're Kind, But No One Can Help You Worry (Curtis, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act II: Interlude 2

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Terzet: One, Two, Three, Four (Ellen, Owen, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Thomas Berau, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: It's such a nice holiday in this hotel here (Ellen, Ilse, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Aria: Don't You Remember? (Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Do I remember? (Ellen, Ilse, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger, Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Aria: I Fall (Ellen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Estelle Kruger

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Owen, this day shows that we all have to rethink our actions (Ilse, Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Aria: Each Time You Walk Out The Door (Owen)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Thomas Berau

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Curtis! Ilse! (Ilse, Owen, Curtis)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Lila Chrisp, Thomas Berau, Uwe Eikötter

Conductor: Alan Pierson
Act III: Terzet: Ellen, Tell Us Where You Have Gone (Curtis, Owen, Ilse)

Composer: Hans Thomalla

Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

Performer: Uwe Eikötter, Thomas Berau, Lila Chrisp

Conductor: Alan Pierson

Dark Fall is an opera about love and longing in old age. The story centres on Ellen, a married woman who is showing the first signs of Alzheimer's disease. Despite these symptoms, or perhaps because of them, she falls in love with Owen, an old friend who visits Ellen and her husband. Dark Fall questions notions about love and partnership in old age: When are we too ill or too old to be allowed to fall in love again? to start a new life with a new partner and be able to leave someone else? when are we too limited in our autonomy to freely decide our lives? Together with Dark Spring (UA Mannheim 2020), Dark Fall is conceived as the second part of a theatrical Diptych of Desire. The pieces can be performed either separately or together as a double feature.