Organization

Lighting designer

Marie-Luise Fieker

Singer

Tenor

Daeju Na

Lorenzo

Christian Backhaus

Unknown

Stage director

Paul-Georg Dittrich

Conductor

Kiril Stankow

Costume designer

Anna Rudolph

Set designer

Sebastian Hannak

Video designer

Kai Wido Meyer

Dramaturge

Teresa Martin

Chorus master

Marco Zeiser Celesti

Soprano

Emma McNairy

Elvire

Ricardo Tamura

Masaniello

Bass

Filippo Bettoschi

Pietro

Magnus Piontek

Selva

Florian Spiess

Sam Taskinen

Borella

Hakan Çiftçioğlu

Ein Fischer

Szczepan Nowak

Staatstheater Kassel

French

La Muette de Portici -  (The Mute Girl of Portici)

Kassel

Germany

Opernhaus

La Muette de Portici Auber

Public

The Mute Girl of Portici

German

Approved

Director Paul-Georg Dittrich talks about "La muette de Portici" and the questions he poses in his production: How have political systems changed since the 19th century? How is a political stance expressed today? What is a political gesture these days? His opera production of "La muette de Portici" on April 9th ​​deals with all these questions19:30pm in the opera house will celebrate its premiere.

https://www.staatstheater-kassel.de/p...

Aux armes! Aux armes! - To the weapons! The performance of Daniel Auber's  La muette de Portici on August 25, 1830 at the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels so upset the audience that they rose, stormed out of the theater and started a revolution that led to the founding of the Belgian state. Two years earlier, Auber had co-founded the monumental genre of grand opéra with his work, which was to make music theater the culmination of social discourse. And yet  The Mute blasts from PorticiPushing the limits of opera with a protagonist who does not sing a single note, this form of breathtaking singing, overwhelming mass choruses, opulence and glamour, the mute Fennella finds herself in the midst of the turmoil of the Spanish occupation of Naples in the 17th century. She publicly exposes the son of the Spanish viceroy Alphonse as her seducer and flees to her brother Masaniello, the leader of the rebellion against the occupying power. A fatal civil war unfolds in a plot almost ready for film, which in the opera ends with the eruption of Vesuvius as the final scene. In 1830, Auber's opera music became the soundtrack of the bourgeois emancipation movement, not only in Belgium but throughout Europe – including in Kassel, where the citizens' guard took to the streets to the sounds of the overture. The director Paul-Georg Dittrich traces the myth of this real political and aesthetic revolution at the Staatstheater Kassel. With his multiple award-winning works, for which he has already been nominated twice for the German theater prize DER FAUST, Dittrich stands for poetic storytelling as well as for a contemporary symbiosis between music and spoken theatre, for experimental forms of play and unconventional spatial theater settings. Most recently he directed at the Theater Bremen, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. for poetic narration as well as for a contemporary symbiosis between music and spoken theater, for experimental forms of play and unconventional spatial theater settings. Most recently he directed at the Theater Bremen, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. for poetic narration as well as for a contemporary symbiosis between music and spoken theater, for experimental forms of play and unconventional spatial theater settings. Most recently he directed at the Theater Bremen, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

English

The Mute Girl of Portici by Auber, From (2022/2022), Directed by Paul-Georg Dittrich,, Conductor Kiril Stankow, Opernhaus, Kassel, Germany

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