«Grandhotel XY ungelöst» - «The Bear» (Extravaganza in one act)

OPERETTA ARDEZ, best known for "Hänsel e Grettina" on the Plan Plaz forest stage near Ardez or the "Zaubergeige" on the Plazzetta village square in Ardez, is bringing "Grandhotel XY unsolved" and "The Bear" by William Walton to the stage this summer.

The jewel among chamber operas, "The Bear" (based on Chekhov's one-act play) is a musically and scenically captivating musical theater masterpiece for three people, which captivates the audience from the first to the last second with its wit, pace and profundity.

"The Bear" is embedded in a storyline that takes place in a grand hotel with all its exciting stories and even revives a long-forgotten case. The whole thing is brought to the stage as the crime operetta "Grandhotel XY unsolved".

The three performers are the same, but this time not in Chekhov's time, but in 2009, 20 years after the fire at the legendary spa hotel "Zum Bären".

The staged premiere of this "crime operetta" invites you to an exciting evening with music from Strauss, Verdi, Donzetti to Aretha Franklin and much more, with stories and anecdotes of true and invented events from the Scuol Palace and other grand hotels.

The confusion surrounding a love triangle, the hotel's illustrious guests and the rumors about the hotel's past and future come to a head and spread like wildfire.... Can the former hotel manager save his reputation and find the arsonist? .... What role do the singing widow and her ex-lover, who also appears and throws everything into confusion, play?

Let yourself be whisked away into a world full of intrigue, surprising twists and turns and captivating music and witness the investigation first-hand as an audience member.

Gianna Lunardi, Popova and widow of the hotel owner (mezzo-soprano)

Daniel Bentz, Luca and hotel manager (tenor)

Chasper-Curò Mani, Smirnov and eccentric singer (baritone)

Zoi Tsokanou, musical director and piano

Ivo Bärtsch, direction and text

Lia Tang, violin and viola

Federico Loy, bassoon

Katrin Bamert, harp

Marius Fischer, percussion

Chasper-Curò Mani, artistic direction

Briony Langmead, costumes

Mayk Wendt, research, documentation

Duri Collenberg, musical arrangements

Bettina Vital, translations

Niculin Felix, lighting design

Libretto by Paul Dehn and William Walton

German translation by Ernst Roth

Reduced orchestration by Jonathan Lyness

Production management team of OPERETTA ARDEZ in collaboration with the Scuol Palace

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