Name: The Rape of Lucretia
Start: 2022-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Luzerner Theater

Organization

Tenor

Robert Maszl

Male chorus

Soprano

Eyrún Unnarsdóttir

Female chorus

Baritone

Sebastià Peris

Junius

Vladyslav Tlushch

Tarquinius

Contralto

Solenn' Lavanant-Linke

Lucretia

Mezzo-soprano

Marcela Rahal

Bianca

Tania Lorenzo Castro

Lucia

Stage director

Sarah Derendinger

Conductor

Jesse Wong

Costume designer

Sophia Schneider

Set designer

Thomas Boudewijn

Dramaturge

Lars Gebhardt

Bass

Christian Tschelebiew

Collatinus

Video designer

Lighting designer

André Stocker

Luzerner Theater

Orchestra

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

English

The Rape of Lucretia

Lucerne

Switzerland

The Rape of Lucretia Britten

Public

German

Approved

Benjamin Britten's first chamber opera "The Rape of Lucretia", premiered immediately after the Second World War, takes up the myth of the "desecration of Lucretia" depicted in the visual arts: Ancient Rome is ruled by the Etruscans, political chaos reigns, the only one Stability seems to be the beautiful and chaste Lucretia. The Etruscan prince Tarquinius gains access to her house at night and rapes her. Lucretia chooses suicide as the only way out, which in turn is used politically by the Romans to call for resistance.

The film and video director Sarah Derendinger, who was born in Lucerne and is internationally successful on major opera stages, questions the events in her production. Where do the two narrator characters manipulate the audience? How much attraction is there between Tarquinius and Lucretia? How can it be that Lucretia's death is immediately turned into a political weapon? With cinematic means, symbolic images and a live camera, the evening asks: "What is truth?"

Sarah Derendinger marks the beginning of a new series at the Luzerner Theater, in which a video artist will create an opera every year.

The Rape of Lucretia by Britten, Fri 13 May 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Sarah Derendinger,, Conductor Jesse Wong, Luzerner Theater, Lucerne, Switzerland

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