Organization

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Conductor

Pier Giorgio Morandi

Lighting designer

Joachim Klein

Costume designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Set designer

Video designer

Manuel Braun

Dramaturge

Konrad Kuhn

Singer

Bass

Andreas Bauer Kanabas

The Marquis of Calatrava

Tenor

Alfred Kim

Don Alvaro

Soprano

Izabela Matuła

Leonora

Baritone

Željko Lučić

Don Carlo of Vargas

The Father Superior

Simon Bailey

Fra Melitone

Mezzo-soprano

Judita Nagyová

Preziosilla

Nina Tarandek

Curra

Chorus master

Tilman Michael

Bianca Andrew

Mikołaj Trąbka

Mayor

Michael McCown

Maestro Trabuco

Oper Frankfurt

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Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

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Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Italian

La forza del destino -  (The Force of Destiny)

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Opernhaus

Public

The Force of Destiny

German

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Preziosilla / La Forza del Destino / Oper Frankfurt 2022
Photo: Barbara Aumueller

Preziosilla / La Forza del Destino / Oper Frankfurt 2022

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO by Giuseppe Verdi staging Tobias Kratzer musical direction Jader Bignamini Premiere Oper Frankfurt, January 27, 2019 Video © Thiemo Hehl Editing Holger Engelhardt

Giuseppe Verdi: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, Oper Frankfurt

This exuberant, large-format opera, which is about burning passions, but also about the destructive power of racism, offers pure excitement. At the height of his ability, Verdi wrote what is perhaps his most experimental score for St. Petersburg. Freed from the constraints of the genre, he broke new ground and followed a montage-like dramaturgy. Scenes of the protagonists worked out with psychological precision are juxtaposed with broad genre scenes that are only loosely connected to the main plot. The Marchese of Calatrava refuses a connection between his daughter Leonora and Don Alvaro because of the color of his skin. When the father surprises the couple, a pistol shot goes off and kills the Marchese. For three acts, Leonora's brother Don Carlo chases the two lovers, who were separated on the run, across national borders, until there is a fatal reunion in the end. Tobias Kratzer translates the central theme of racism into an opulent sequence of images, making use of a wide variety of theatrical means.

The Force of Destiny by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, Opernhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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