Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Christof Loy

Set designer

Set designer (+3)

Johannes Leiacker

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Ursula Renzenbrink

Lighting designer

Olaf Winter

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Rustam Samedov

Dramaturge

Stephan Steinmetz

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Adriana Bastidas-Gamboa

Federica

Soprano (+3)

Maria Koroleva

Laura

Tenor

Rodrigo Garull

Rodolfo

Stage director (+1)

Georg Zlabinger

Oper Köln

Chorus

Chor der Oper Köln

Orchestra

Gürzenich - Orchester Köln

Glyndebourne

Staatenhaus Köln

Bass (+2)

Dario Russo

Count Walter

Baritone (+4)

Olafur Sigurdarson

Miller

Soprano

Mané Galoyan

Luisa

Bass (+3)

Krzysztof Bączyk

Wurm

Bass-baritone (+3)

Almas Svilpa

Soprano (+1)

Cristiana Oliveira

Baritone (+3)

Federico Longhi

Elia Fabbian

Adam Palka

Luisa loves Rodolfo, but an awful lot stands in the way of this love. First there is Rodolfo's aristocratic status, from which it is impossible for him to marry a middle-class girl like Luisa. His father, Count von Walter, has already chosen a suitable bride for him and wants to do everything to prevent his son from finding true love. The scheming castle manager Wurm comes in handy, who, rejected by Luisa, incites both fathers against each other until father Miller ends up in prison. To save him, Luisa is forced to write a letter in which she confesses her alleged love for Wurm. This letter is passed to Rodolfo. In the end, the two lovers are dead and the fathers are left in ruins.

Friedrich Schiller called his bourgeois tragedy from 1783 “Intrigue and Love” so succinctly and aptly, in which the blameless Luise Millerin is ruined by human and social infamy. Thanks to Andrea Maffei's Italian translation of Schiller, published in 1827, Verdi was familiar with the play. In the course of his long career he repeatedly fell back on material by Friedrich Schiller and discovered great opera in it. Any other composer might have made a touching play out of this material, not so Verdi, who recognized the dramatic potential of the characters and the plot and exploited it to the full musically. With "Luisa Miller" in 1849, between "Macbeth" and "Rigoletto", Verdi opened a new chapter in his creative work, in which he applied his entire creative art to unmistakable, exceptional psychological situations
tailored arias and scenes in which the characters grow beyond themselves and the immediate world.

Christof Loy, who has long been one of the most influential German opera directors, staged "Luisa Miller" at the Glyndebourne Festival in the summer of 2020. The enchantingly character-focused production was highly acclaimed by press and audience alike and is now coming to Cologne Opera. With Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, a proven expert in Italian opera will be at the podium.

Luisa Miller

Cologne

Germany

Saal 2

Staged

Opera

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