Orchestra

  • A Hero's Journey

    Photography © WDR (Livestream)

     

    CREW

    Conductor: Frank Strobel

    WDR Editorial office & Dramaturgy: Dr. Elfi Vomberg

    Stage directional advice: Annechien Koerselman

    Lightdesign: Annechien Koerselman i.c.w. Martin Cohaus

    Sound: Tobias Nievelstein

    Organisation: West Deutscher Rundfunk Cologne (DE)


     

    premiere January 14, 2021, WDR Rundfunkhaus Cologne (DE)

     

    CAST

    Singers: Bettina Mönch, Dominik Hees

    Moderation: Julia Schöning

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester

     

  • Babyn Jar

    Photography © Anne Koerselman-Müller & Andrew Waller

    CREW

    Composers: Max Bruch (Kol Nidrei), Yevhen Stankovych (Babyn Jar), Johannes Brahms (Das Deutsche Requiem

    Conductor: Oksana Lyniv

    Stage-direction: Annechien Koerselman

    Stage- & Lightdesigner: Annechien Koerselman

    Producer: Pavlo & Larysa Hunka

    Chairman: Pavlo Hunka, internationally acclaimed opera singer Founder and Artistic Director, Ukrainian Art Song Project

    Organisation: Ukranian Jewish Encounter, Toronto, Canada


     

    Opening: September 29, 2016, National Opera Theatre of Ukraine, Kyiv

    CAST

    Soloists: Benjamin Butterfield (Tenor), Gal James (Soprano), Pavlo Hunka (Bass-Baritone)

    Cellist: Roman Borys

    Choir: Dumka, National Academic Choir of Ukraine

    Orchestra: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra

  • BABYN JAR

  • BACHS MINI-OPERA'S

  • BACHS MINI-OPERA'S

  • BEATHOVEN

  • Beathoven

    Photography © Klaus Görgen

    CREW

    Idea & Concept: Katharina Höhne

    Composition: Stefan Behrisch, Georg Hamilton, Ludwig von Beethoven

    Conductor: Wayne Marshall

    Choreography: Kassandra Wedel

    Visuals (Video & LED): Schnelle Bunte Bilder

    Stage direction: Annechien Koerselman

    Costumes: Katharina Höhne, Annechien Koerselman, Kassandra Wedel

    Lightdesign: Annechien Koerselman & Ertan Kaya

    Interpreter of the deaf & Co-trainer: Elisabeth Brichta

    Organsiation: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne


     

    premiere January 24, 2020, Kölner Philharmonie Cologne (DE)

    CAST

    Dance: Kassandra Wedel & 28 deaf, hearing impaired & hearing teenagers

    Electronic instruments: Marc Romboy

    Moderation: Isabel Hecker, Kassandra Wedel (gebarentaal)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester

     

  • BILDER EINER AUSSTELLUNG WDR DACKL

  • BIRTHDAY PARTY

  • Can you whistle, Johanna

    Photography © Leo Seidel

    CREW

    Composer: Gordon Kampe

    Libretto: Dorothea Hartmann

    Stage direction: Annechien Koerselman

    Dramaturgy: Anne Oppermann

    Conductor: Kevin McCutcheon

    Set - & Costumedesign: Claus Stump

    Light: Annechien Koerselman & Claus Stump

    Technics: Steffen Hoppe

    Producer: Die Deutsche Oper, Berlin


     

    Premiere: November 30, 2013 Die Deutsche Oper Berlin

    CAST

    Soli: Martin Geike, Paul Kaufmann, Roland Schubert

    Ensemble: Orchestra der Deutschen Oper Berlin

  • CARMENCITA

  • Carmencita

    Photography © François Zuidberg

    CREW

    Idea, Concept, Text, Stage direction, Musical dramaturgy: Annechien Koerselman

    Conductor: David Reiland

    Set- & Costumedesign: Nina Ball

    Lighdesign: Nina Ball, Annechien Koerselman & Frank Reinard

    Organisation: Orchestra Philharmonique du Luxembourg


     

    premiere May 15, 2015 Philharmonie Luxembourg

    CAST

    Actors & circusacts: Jeroen Engelsman et Leila Schaus

    Violin: Letica Moreno

    Orchestra: Orchestra Philharmonique du Luxembourg

  • DIE PLANETEN

  • FEIERVILLCHEN / L'OISEAU DE FEU

  • Firebird (feiervillchen)

    Photography © Alfonso Salgueiro Lora

    CREW

    Stage direction & Text: Annechien Koerselman

    Conductor: Juraj Valčuh

    Videodesign: Urbi et Orbi (Maaike Engels and Thomas Bouvy) with animations by Daniel Oliviera Prins

    Costumes: Nina Ball

    Choreography: Emanuella Iacopini

    Light: Annechien Koerselman & Frank Reinard

    Translation: Dan Tanson

    Organisation: Philharmonie Luxembourg in cooperation with le Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg


     

    premiere December 05, 2013 Philharmony Luxembourg

    CAST

    Narrator: Betsy Dentzer

    Dancers: Students of the danceclas of the City's Conservatory of Luxembourg

    Orchestra Philharmony Luxembourg

  • Hairlich

    Photography © WDR (Livestream)

     

    CREW

    Conductor: Frank Strobel

    Concept & dramaturgy: Katharina Höhne

    Stage direction & concept Setdesign: Annechien Koerselman

    Props: Anne Schiek

    Lightdesign: Annechien Koerselman i.c.w. Martin Cohaus

    Sounddesign: Tobias Nievelstein

    Organisation: West Deutscher Rundfunk Cologne (DE)


     

    premiere October 22, 2022, WDR Rundfunkhaus Cologne (DE)

     

    CAST

    Hair artist: Jan Wagner

    Make-up artist: Michael Crnjavic

    Moderation: Julia Schöning

    Singer: Thomas D. i.c.w. Udo Schöbel (backing vocal)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchestra

     

  • HAIRLICH!

  • HERO'S JOURNEY

  • HET (NIEUWE) VERHAAL VAN DE SOLDAAT

  • Homeless!

    Photography © Robert van der Ree & Maaike Engels

     

    CREW

    Composer: Kaveh Vares

    Libretto: Marjolein Bierens

    Stage direction & Set design: Annechien Koerselman

    Conductor: Wim Boerman

    Costumedesign: Dymph Boss

    Videodesign: Maaike Engels & Thomas Bouvy (UrbietOrbi)

    Lightdesign: Nico Kraeima

    Executive producer: Joanne de Roest

    Producer: Orchestra de Ereprijs, Apeldoorn


     

    Premiere: January 13, 2018, Stadsschouwburg Arnhem

     

    CAST

    WOMAN (mezzo-soprano) Merlijn Runia

    MAN (tenor) Arash Roozhemi

    Orchestra de Ereprijs