Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Antonino Fogliani

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Rainer Sellmaier

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Michael Bauer

Video

Stage director (+1)

Manuel Braun

Jonas Dahl

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+3)

Bettina Bartz

Baritone (+2)

Fabio Capitanucci

Fabrizio Vingradito

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Marina De Liso

Lucia

Tenor (+2)

Maxim Mironov

Giannetto

Soprano (+1)

Nino Machaidze

Ninetta

Baritone (+3)

Paolo Bordogna

Fernando Villabella

Bass (+5)

Nahuel Di Pierro

The Mayor

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Diana Haller

Pippo

Tenor (+3)

Riccardo Botta

Isacco the peddlar

Tenor (+1)

Johannes Bamberger

Antonio

Baritone (+1)

Timothy Connor

Giorgio

Alexander Aigner

Ernesto

Bass (+1)

Zacharias Galaviz

Prefetto

Robert Lillinger

Piano

MusikTheater an der Wien

Chorus

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Orchestra

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier

A feathered thief, a servant wrongly sentenced to death and a corrupt, power-hungry politician: those are the protagonists of Rossini’s semi-serious opera whose overture, with its drum rolls and oboe solo, is one of the best-known pieces in the history of music. La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is set in a time of great social upheaval. When Ninetta is accused of stealing a silver spoon, a series of unfortunate events begins that initially makes the happy ending expected from an opera semiseria seem highly unlikely. What sort of world is it where a person can be executed for the alleged theft of a spoon? Tobias Kratzer, successful as a director throughout Europe, now debuts in Vienna with Rossini’s opera that received its first performance in 1817 and traces the uncertainty felt by people in a politically and socially destabilised world.

Taljan