Season concerts

Die Ersten Menschen

R. Stephan
Die ersten Menschen [100']

Robert Treviño
Conductor

Calixto Bieito

Date & Place

18April, 2024Thursday, 19:30 h.BilbaoArriaga
20April, 2024Saturday, 19:00 h.BilbaoArriaga

Information

The Basque National Orchestra includes, for the first time, an opera in its Season Concerts. It is a production by the Arriaga Theatre in which the orchestra collaborates. With stage direction by Calixto Bieito and musical direction by Robert Trevino, together they will present a title that is as unknown as it is fascinating: Rudi Stephan's The First Humans, which premièred in Frankfurt in 1920, will come to the Basque Country for the first time with these performances. With a libretto written in a poetic style heavily influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis, the plot deals with the marital conflict between Adam and Eve, as well as the intrigues between their two sons, Cain and Abel, who desire the only woman on the face of the earth: their own mother. Rudi Stephan, a promising German composer who died very young in World War I, created striking music to tell this lurid story.

Die ersten Menschen (Lehen gizakiak / Los primeros hombres)

  • Composer: Rudi Stephan (1887-1915).
  • Libretto: Otto Borngräber.
  • Musical director: Robert Treviño.
  • Stage director: Calixto Bieito.
  • Set Design: Rebecca Ringst.
  • Costumes: Ingo Krügler.
  • Lighting design: Michael Bauer.
  • Video: Sarah Derendinger.
  • Cast: Annette Dasch, Daniel Schmutzhard, Simon Neal, John Daszak.
  • Orchestra: Basque National Orchestra.
  • Assistant director: Nico Weggemans.
  • Assistant musical director: Roberto Baltar.
  • Original production: Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam.
  • Executive production: Arriaga Theatre, working with Basque National Orchestra.

More information on Arriaga Theatre's webpage.

 

 



Artists

Robert Treviño

Robert Treviño

Director

More information
Calixto Bieito

Calixto Bieito

Scene director

Next events

Concerts & Tickets October

1 We
2 Th
3 Fr
4 Sa
5 Su
6 Mo
7 Tu
8 We
9 Th
10 Fr
10 october, 2025 Friday, 19:30 h.
Other Activities Concert for Friends of the Orfeón Donostiarra José Antonio Sainz Alfaro Donostia
Concert for Friends of the Orfeón Donostiarra
11 Sa
11 october, 2025 Saturday, 11:00 h.
Miramon Matinées Matinée 1: Kaabestri Donostia / San Sebastián Buy tickets
Matinée 1: Kaabestri
12 Su
13 Mo
14 Tu
15 We
16 Th
17 Fr
18 Sa
18 october, 2025 Saturday, 11:00 h.
Miramon Matinées Matinée 2: Haizea Donostia / San Sebastián Buy tickets
Matinée 2: Haizea
19 Su
20 Mo
21 Tu
22 We
23 Th
24 Fr
25 Sa
25 october, 2025 Saturday, 19:00 h.
Other Activities ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino Lorenzo Passerini Bilbao/Bilbo Buy tickets
ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino
26 Su
27 Mo
28 Tu
28 october, 2025 Tuesday, 19:30 h.
Other Activities ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino Lorenzo Passerini Bilbao/Bilbo Buy tickets
ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino
29 We
30 Th
31 Fr
31 october, 2025 Friday, 19:30 h.
Other Activities ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino Lorenzo Passerini Bilbao/Bilbo Buy tickets
ABAO Bilbao Opera: La forza del destino