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- Deutsche Oper Berlin
La forza del destino
Die Macht des Schicksals
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
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.
- Language
- In italienischer Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln
- Duration
- 3 Stunden 45 Minuten / Eine Pause
Cast
- Conductor
- John Fiore
- Director
- Frank Castorf
- Set design
- Aleksandar Denic
- Costume design
- Adriana Braga Peretzki
- Light design
- Lothar Baumgarte
- Video design and live camera
- Kathrin Krottenthaler
- Andreas Deinert
- Maryvonne Riedelsheimer
- Chorus-Conductor
- Jeremy Bines
- Dramaturgy
- Jörg Königsdorf
- The Marquis of Calatrava
- Stephen Bronk
- Donna Leonora
- Liudmyla Monastyrska
- Don Carlo di Vargas
- Etienne Dupuis
- Don Alvaro
- Roberto Aronica
- Preziosilla
- Judit Kutasi
- Padre Guardiano
- Tobias Kehrer
- Fra Melitone
- Noel Bouley
- Curra
- Amber Fasquelle
- Alkalde
- Patrick Guetti
- Mastro Trabuco
- Michael Kim
- Chirurgus
- Byung Gil Kim
- The Indio
- Ronni Maciel
- Chorus
- Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- Orchestra
- Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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Supporting program
Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance
Work info
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
Credits
Präsentiert von rbbKultur, taz und Fleurop. Mit Unterstützung des Förderkreises der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.
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