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© Monika Penkute
Opera
Didone
Tickets available at the box office from 2.45pm!
Date Sun 12.08.2018
Time 16.00
Venue Tiroler Landestheater
Duration About 3 hours (incl. one intermission)
Introduction One hour before the performance begins.

Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante: Didone abbandonata (Die verlassene Dido)
Dramma per musica in zwei Akten
Libretto nach Pietro Metastasio von Andrea Leone Tottola
Premiere: 18.01.1823 in Turin, Teatro Regio
Critical edition by Paolo Cascio / Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2018​

Scenic performance. Sung in Italian with German surtitles.

Saverio Mercadante led the way for the baroque opera to transform into the Romantic operatic drama Italy was to become famous for. Conductor and pioneer Alessandro De Marchi is repeatedly delighted to find that operas by Mercadante and his contemporaries «display the musical ideas of this period of Italian music to full effect only in historically informed performances. The sound becomes more subtle, the musicians are in a chamber music frame of mind when they play historically informed performances, which allows the vocal language to come into its own.» Moreover, Mercadante’s «Didone abbandonata» also demonstrates «that a classical libretto by Viennese court poet Metastasio still had plenty of substance for a composition even in the 19th century.»

«Didone abbandonata» contains all that sets a Romantic Italian operatic drama apart: great scenes with cantabile and cabaletta for all the main characters, rousing composed ensembles, exciting duets and grand final scenes. The suicide of the Carthaginian Queen Dido, abandoned by Aeneas and betrayed by Jarba, is only a short recitative in Metastasio’s libretto. In contrast, Mercadante composed it as a great death scene. Conversely, he still made use of the long-established recitatives of the baroque tradition. Sizzling both in terms of content and vocal style, «you can hear throughout the entire work where one opera world ends and a new opera world begins», de Marchi teases the love triangle set in Carthage, which will be staged in Innsbruck by star director Jürgen Flimm.

Production

Alessandro De Marchi (© Sandra Hastenteufel) © Sandra Hastenteufel
Alessandro De Marchi

Conductor
Jürgen Flimm © Hermann und Clärchen Baus
Jürgen Flimm

Director
Magdalena Gut
Magdalena Gut

Set designer
kristina_bell
Kristina Bell

Costume designer
Irene Selka

Lighting design
Academia Montis Regalis © Yoncheva Salisb
Academia Montis Regalis

Orchestra
coro_maghini_3
Coro Maghini

Chorus
claudio_chiavazza
Claudio Chiavazza

Chorus Director
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Cast

Viktorija Miškūnaitė © Monika Penkute
Viktorija Miškūnaité

Didone
Katrin Wundsam 1 © Julia Spicker
Katrin Wundsam

Enea
Carlo-Allemano_1 © Ribaltaluce Studio
Carlo Allemano

Jarba
pietro di bianco 1
Pietro Di Bianco

Osmida
Diego Godoy_(c)Martin Hesz © Martin Hesz
Diego Godoy

Araspe
Emilie Renard 2 © Raphaelle Photography
Emilie Renard

Selene
Zuschauerraum GH
Tiroler Landestheater
Adress

Rennweg 2, 6020 Innsbruck

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Further information
Introduction

As an additional service, we offer a free introductory talk. Rainer Lepuschitz discusses aspects of the opera with the artists of the evening. The introduction starts one hour before the concert.

 

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