When it was choreographed, John worked closely with Günter Jena, the choral director at Hamburg’s largest church. Apart from one performance with live music in Moscow in 2017, Jena conducted the orchestra and singers in all of the performances with live music. Jena also conducted for the film of the ballet and the recording used for performances without a live orchestra.Īnna: Every time the music starts, it always moves me and I have to hold the tears back. It is so powerful. We have 41 dancers onstage and most do not leave the stage for the entire work. Once I’m inside the music, I am reacting to what is going on, imagining how I would react to a horrible situation and what I would do. Matthew Passion will be conducted by anyone other than Günter Jena so LA Opera ’s music director James Conlon conducting, that is very significant. Does that happen often?Īlexandr: This will be only the second time St. Matthew Passion, you will be working with LA Opera’s music director James Conlon for the first time. Interviewed by telephone, two of the company’s principal dancers, Anna Laudere and Alexandr Trusch, shared their perspectives on the two ballets, the roles they dance, how they became part of Hamburg Ballet, and their distinctive experience working with Neumeier. In John Neumeier’s ballet both parts are in one performance which is how it will be presented in Los Angeles with the opera’s music director James Conlon conducting. When the music alone is presented, it sometimes is performed over two days.
Matthew Passion is set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1727 sacred oratorio for solo voices, choir and orchestra. Matthew Passion with music director James Conlon conducting the singers and orchestra. With the LA Opera, Hamburg Ballet dancers fill the stage to tackle J.S. The 1998 work drew on Neumeier’s friendship with Bernstein and is dedicated to the composer. That ballet offers familiar hits from composer Leonard Bernstein’s like Westside Story and Candide along with less familiar compositions to consider how the music reflects the composer’s life and charisma.
The choreographer and 60 Hamburg Ballet dancers arrive for three weeks of performances, some with the LA Opera and some shows on their own. Neumeier’s Bernstein Dances is presented as part of the Music Center’s Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance series with a live orchestra conducted by Garrett Keast. Hamburg Ballet has visited SoCal before but this marks the company’s debut at the Music Center.
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