This reworking of Das Schloss Dürande aims to restore to the international operatic stage a significant opera of late-tonal Modernism that in the long term will have to find its own way into the repertoire alongside the works of Richard Strauss, Leoš Janáček, Franz Schreker and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Its late-Romantic style, which is common to the “lyrical” Schoeck of the songs and the “dramatic” Schoeck of the opera Penthesilea, here explores the very boundaries of what the idiom would allow.

At the same time, both these aspects of his oeuvre are so closely interwoven that the result in Dürande – which we are now able to rediscover for ourselves – is wholly autonomous and appropriate to its subject, almost postmodern in conception, and still capable of sweeping us off our feet today.

Cast:
- Renald Dubois: Robin Adams
- Gabriele, his sister: Sophie Gordeladze
- Count Armand, son of the old Count: Uwe Stickert
- Prioress: Hilke Andersen
- The old Count: Andries Cloete
- Nicolas, the old Count’s valet: Jordan Shanahan
- Countess Morvaille: Ludovica Bello
- A gamekeeper / Buffon the innkeeper: Todd Boyce
- A gardener’s boy, the orator of the mob, 1st huntsman: Michael Feyfar
- 1st nun: Jinsook Lee
- 2nd nun: Vilislava Gospodinova
- A lawyer, 3rd huntsman: Nazariy Sadivskyy
- Commissar: Andres Del Castillo
- 2nd huntsman, soldier: Carl Rumstadt
- A policeman: David Park
- A constable: Samuel Thompson
- A Parisian: Carlos Nogueira