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La forza del destino
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La forza del destino
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La forza del destino– The Making-Of
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La forza del destino: Publikumsstimmen
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In einer Probe zu „La forza del destino“
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Frank Castorf über La forza del destino
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La forza del destino
Stephen Bronk as Stephen Bronk as The Marquis of Calatrava, Ronni Maciel as The Indian et al.
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Agunda Kulaeva as Preziosilla et al.
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Markus Brück as Don Carlo di Vargas, Russell Thomas as Don Alvaro
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La forza del destino
Markus Brück as Don Carlo di Vargas, Russell Thomas as Don Alvaro, Timothy Newton as Chirurgus
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María José Siri as Donna Leonora
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La forza del destino
María José Siri as Donna Leonora et al.
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La forza del destino
María José Siri as Donna Leonora, Russell Thomas as Don Alvaro
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La forza del destino
María José Siri as Donna Leonora, Ronni Maciel as The Indian
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La forza del destino
Marko Mimica as Pater Guardian, María José Siri as Donna Leonora
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La forza del destino
Russell Thomas as Don Alvaro, Markus Brück as Don Carlo di Vargas
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La forza del destino
Stephen Bronk as The Marquis of Calatrava, Ronni Maciel as Indian
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La forza del destino
María José Siri as Donna Leonora, Russell Thomas as Don Alvaro, Amber Fasquelle als Curra
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La forza del destino
Marko Mimica as Pater Guardian, Amber Fasquelle as Curra
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La forza del destino
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Informationen Zum Werk
Melodramma in 4 acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
New text-version by Antonio Ghislanzoni
First performance on 10th [22nd] November, 1862 at St. Petersburg
Premiered at the Deutschen Oper Berlin on 8th September, 2019
Recommended from 14 years on
In Italian with German and English surtitles
3 hrs 45 mins / 1 interval
Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance
Cast
Conductor
Jordi Bernàcer
John Fiore (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Director
Set design
Costume design
Light design
Video design and live camera
Kathrin Krottenthaler
Maryvonne Riedelsheimer
Andreas Deinert
Chorus-Conductor
Dramaturgy
The Marquis of Calatrava
Donna Leonora
María José Siri
Liudmyla Monastyrska (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Don Carlo di Vargas
Markus Brück
Etienne Dupuis (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Don Alvaro
Russell Thomas
Roberto Aronica (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Preziosilla
Agunda Kulaeva
Judit Kutasi (24.09.2019 | 17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Elena Maximova (28.09.2019)
Padre Guardiano
Marko Mimica
Tobias Kehrer (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Fra Melitone
Misha Kiria
Noel Bouley (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Curra
Alkalde
Padraic Rowan
Patrick Guetti (17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
Mastro Trabuco
Chirurgus
Timothy Newton
Byung Gil Kim (24.09.2019 | 28.09.2019 | 17.06.2020 | 20.06.2020 | 26.06.2020)
The Indio
About the performance
Verdi himself classified his FORZA DEL DESTINO, which premiered in 1862, as the first "modern" opera that consisted of ideas instead of individual numbers. In fact the entire work draws its driving force from the polarity between two opposing worlds of feeling that possess the main characters to the point of obsession: on one side the alleged guilt for the death of Leonora's father, which hangs over her and her lover Alvaro. On the other side the lust for vengeance that drives Leonora's brother Carlo to chase them to the ends of the earth. An unconditional chase unfolds over three hours, leading the three lead characters through a world that is constantly derailing. In desolate crowd scenes we experience a disinhibited society in which pure survival matters above all else, and where violence has replaced any sense of morality. Even the church authority in whose arms Leonora and Alvaro seek refuge proves to be flawed and is the "Master of Fate", inferior to the power of evil.
War and religion are the poles that determine the lives of people in Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO. In the production by Frank Castorf, this idea of the play is made visible by its location in the Spanish Civil War and in Naples during the Second World War. Castorf uses, among other things, excerpts from the novels "La pelle" and "Kaputt" by the Italian Curzio Malaparte, who in a surrealistic aggravation depicts the horrors of war, but also an indestructible belief in life.
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