Thomalla: Dark Spring / Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

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Label
Oehms Classics
Release Date
November 26, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      THOMALLA, HANS
    • PERFORMER
      Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim, Pierson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 26, 2021
    • UPC
      4260034869943
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OC994
    • LABEL
      Oehms Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. This dress is not too short (Wendla, Ilse)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    2. Boys! Boys! (Wendla, Ilse)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    3. Melchior Gabor, he told me once he does not believe in anything (Wendla, Ilse)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    4. He told me once (Wendla)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    5. I'd like to know why we really are on earth (Melchior, Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Diffey, Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    6. I am telling you this place is a dark wood (Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    7. Wendla, I keep thinking I can hold you in a name (Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    8. It's me! (Wendla, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    9. Would you like to beat me? (Wendla, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    10. Zwischenmusik 1

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    11. One must, one must, one must love! (Ilse, Wendla)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Hybiner, Shachar Lavi

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    12. I don't know, I don't care! (Moritz, Wendla, Ilse, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra, Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    13. I passed, I passed, I passed! (Moritz, Melchior, Wendla, Ilse)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra, Christopher Diffey, Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    14. I feel so strangely spiritualized (Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    15. Here is where you've hidden yourself! (Wendla, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    16. Don't kiss me! (Wendla, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    17. Zwischenmusik 2

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    18. Don't you sleep? (Moritz, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    19. I have no desire (Moritz, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    20. I do not know, indeed I do not know (Wendla)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    21. Zwischenmusik 3

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    22. All day it looked like rain but did not rain (Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    23. What are you hunting, what have you lost? (Ilse)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Hybiner

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    24. Why did you frighten me so? (Ilse, Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Hybiner, Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    25. Do you remember how we used to play? (Ilse, Wendla, Melchior, Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Hybiner, Shachar Lavi, Christopher Diffey, Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    26. I must go (Ilse, Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Hybiner, Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    27. It's getting dark (Moritz)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Magid El-Bushra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    28. Zwischenmusik 4

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: Alan Pierson

    29. Be cheerful, Wendla, be cheerful! (Wendla, Ilse, Melchior)

      Composer: Hans Thomalla

      Ensemble: Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Shachar Lavi, Anna Hybiner, Christopher Diffey

      Conductor: Alan Pierson


Dark Spring is an opera about four young people under extreme pressure: the pressure to overachieve academically, to score high in the popularity contests at school or at college, and to perform romantically or sexually. The pressure has become entirely internalized as parents or teachers are absent and the protagonists are left alone with late capitalism’s demands of permanent self-optimization. The conflict between the expectation to succeed on the one hand and the sense of powerlessness and unattainable self-determination in an era of constant stagnation on the other hand grows increasingly acute until it eventually flips into violence: into Melchior’s sexual aggression and Moritz suicide. The opera focuses less on the narration of the four young protagonists’ story but rather on their attempt to articulate and understand the often contradictory feelings that come with it: Feelings of meaninglessness and alienation in a society that values only productivity and success but makes it unreachable for almost everyone; feelings of pain both as suffering and as sexual experience; feelings of love and kinship that briefly appear between the protagonists that nevertheless bring a sense of vulnerability. In a hyper-competitive world the display of emotions is seen as a weakness and a liability. The longing to open up to someone else, to reveal and feel oneself and one another, and to find an expression for that longing seems unsettling and dangerous. The four protagonists of Dark Spring sing songs. They articulate their feelings through the mask of the distancing formalization of rhyme, meter, stanza, and refrain. Under the surface of the objectified schemata of song an almost raw and undomesticated sound-world simmers, though, that breaks through at crucial points of the plot – a sound-world of noise, screams, and silence.