Arrangement from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 February 2025,
3 nights
Die Liebe der Danae - R. Strauss, the 7, première
Sebastian Weigle - Claus Guth
Malin Byström, Emily Sierra, Avery Amereau, Ya-Chung Huang, Andreas Schager, Christopher Maltman
Staatsoper
Un Ballo in maschera - G. Verdi
The melodrama subtitled Amelia by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is emblematic of Italy’s liberation struggles and became a triumph for both the composer and the political movement of the time. Verdi wrote the opera in 1859, shortly before the unification of Italy, a time when assassinations, political unrest and protests shook the country. As a result, Verdi had to rewrite the opera several times: Characters, content and location of the plot were renamed and changed, and the censors kept a strict watch on any possible spark. After Naples and the Bourbons ruling there had banned the premiere, The Masked Ball finally celebrated its premiere in Rome, again curtailed by papal censorship.The title (the opera was originally to be called Gustav III) was the Swedish king of the same name, who was shot by a nobleman at a Stockholm masked ball in 1792 and succumbed to his injuries a short time later. The ambivalent ruler, who loved disguises, music and especially opera and was known for his numerous amours, seemed ideally suited to Verdi as the inspiration for an opera rich in original ideas. The composer’s penchant for the comedic, which is only fully expressed in his later work Falstaff, flashes up noticeably for the first time in this opera.
Un Ballo in maschera♪ - G. Verdi, the 8, 18h
Andrea Battistoni - Johannes Erath
Nicole Car, Yulia Matochkina, Erika Baikoff,
Charles Castronovo
American tenor Charles Castronovo was born in New York on June 19, 1975. Plácido Domingo’s recordings introduced him to opera. Charles Castronovo then joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan, where Charles Castronovo made his debut in 1999 in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci as Beppe. Charles Castronovo has since performed in major opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, the Vienna and Berlin Staatsoper ... His vast repertoire extends from tenor roles in works of Mozart such as Don Giovanni , Cosi Fan Tutte and La Flûte enchantée, and other great operas such as Lucia di Lammeroor, L’Elisir D’Amore or La Traviata.
Charles Castronovo♪
Staatsoper