Organization

Conductor

Clemens Flick

Stage director

Anika Rutkofsky

Set designer

Adrian Stapf

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Franz Tscheck

Dramaturge

Bettina Bartz

Singer

Tenor

Paul Schweinester

Don Anchise

Soprano

Carina Schmieger

Marchioness Violante/ Sandrina

Adrian Autard

Belfiore

Michaella Cipriani

Arminda

Mezzo-soprano

Valerie Eickhoff

Ramiro

Elisabeth Freyhoff

Serpetta

Bass

Anton Belyaev

Nardo

MusikTheater an der Wien

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin

Orchestra

La Folia Barockorchester

Italian

La finta giardiniera -  (The Pretend Garden-Girl, K. 196)

Vienna

Austria

Wiener Kammeroper

La finta giardiniera Mozart: Poster

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The Pretend Garden-Girl, K. 196

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LA FINTA GIARDINIERA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

DRAMMA GIOCOSO IN THREE ACTS
Libretto by Giovanni Petrosellini 

Over three acts, seven lovers are subjected to all the highs and lows of their passions until, by the end, three couples have got together and one character is left on the shelf … The romantic entanglements in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (The Pretend Garden-Girl) centre on Marchioness Violante Onesti, who wishes to win back her former lover and, to this end, has disguised herself as a gardener called Sandrina. But in no time at all her feelings are as rampant and uncontrollable as the plants in her employer's garden. Who is play-acting, and who really means it? No wonder all the protagonists end up thinking that they are going mad! Masked revels and wild abandon were also the real-life occasion that prompted the composition because Mozart wrote La finta giardiniera in 1775 for the Munich Carnival. This work marks the first time that the composer, 18 years old at the time, deals with a subject that was to be a constant preoccupation in his further career: Even the most passionate declarations of fidelity and the most sincere marriage vows are powerless in the face of mighty Eros. Mozart masterfully interweaves tragic and burlesque scenes and, with this opera, writes his first instructive “school for lovers”.

 In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

 
Cast
Conductor: Clemens Flick
Director: Anika Rutkofsky
Stage and Costume: Adrian Stapf
Light: Franz Tscheck
Dramaturgy: Bettina Bartz

Don Anchise, Podestà: Paul Schweinester
Violante (Sandrina): Carina Schmieger
Contino Belfiore: Adrian Autard
Arminda: Michaella Cipriani
Cavaliere Ramiro: Valerie Eickhoff
Serpetta: Elisabeth Freyhoff
Roberto (Nardo): Anton Beliaev

La Folia Barockorchester

Michaella Cipriani, Elisabeth Freyhoff, Anton Beliaev:
CAMPUS collaboration with students of Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
and the theater academy August Everding München

The Pretend Garden-Girl, K. 196 by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by Anika Rutkofsky,, Conductor Clemens Flick, Kammeroper, Vienna, Austria

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