I MASNADIERI (DIE RÄUBER)

In the organizer's words:

Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Andrea Maffei based on Friedrich Schiller's drama "The Robbers".

In Italian language. With surtitles in German and English.

A famous play by Verdi that hardly anyone knows. A plot that is under high pressure from the very beginning. A work, white-hot with love and hate, about people looking for an outlet for their passions, with arias that can hardly be tamed with emotional overflow. A German story as an Italian opera: Verdi wrote I masnadieri to a libretto based on Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers. Karl and Franz become Carlo and Francesco; instead of fighting against social grievances as in the play, in the opera all the characters have to come to terms with a family history characterized by early loss and fraternal rivalry, suppressed desire and misunderstood needs. Slander, blackmail and knife fights become the means of conflict. In Verdi's opera, the political conflict of the robbers is suspended in the personal: It is not the epoch that shows itself ill, but the individual. Commissioned by Her Majesty's Theatre in London, Masnadieri was the first opera Verdi wrote for a theater outside Italy, a work of radical change at the end of his "galley years". In Macbeth, which was written at almost the same time, the fissures in the earth were already breaking open; in I masnadieri, the subterranean faults are about to explode - a tension that is expressed in every bar of the music, in the solos no less than in the famous robber choruses. Johannes Erath, who has already staged an interpretation of Un ballo in maschera in Munich that explores the characters in depth, stages this opera as a chamber play of exuberant proportions.

CAST:

Musical direction: Antonino Fogliani

Production: Johannes Erath

Stage and costumes: Kaspar Glarner

Lighting: Olaf Freese

Video: Lea Heutelbeck

Choir: Christoph Heil

Dramaturgy: Malte Krasting

Massimiliano: Erwin Schrott

Carlo: Charles Castronovo

Francesco: Alexey Markov

Amalia: Lisette Oropesa

Arminio: Kevin Conners

Moser: Roman Chabaranok

Rolla: Tansel Akzeybek

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

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