Organization

Costume designer

Luis F. Carvalho

Singer

Tenor

Matúš Šimko

Primo Compagno di Piacere

Soprano

Anett Fritsch

Anima

Giuseppina Bridelli

Anima beata

Baritone

Daniel Schmutzhard

Corpo

Cyril Auvity

Intelletto

Georg Nigl

Tempo

Florian Boesch

Consiglio

Carlo Vistoli

Angelo Custode

Bass

Mondo

Countertenor

Margherita Maria Sala

Piacere

Vita mondana

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Conductor

Giovanni Antonini

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Set designer

Choreographer

Lorena Randi

Dramaturge

Ian Burton

Chorus master

Erwin Ortner

Michal Marhold

Secondo Compagno di Piacere

Anima beata I

MusikTheater an der Wien

Others

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

Il Giardino Armonico

Italian

Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo -  (Representation of Soul and Body)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Public

Representation of Soul and Body

German

Approved

The beginning of the opera poses existential questions: How should one live properly? Why are people so attached to life? What is good about this existence on earth? Its beauty is only an appearance, it is full of vanity, complaints and dangers. Since the eyes of the people are clouded by sin, a spectacle should show them that only the turn to God's love can make happy. At the beginning of the game, TEMPO warns that the time, the Last Judgment is near, one must turn one's heart to God. INTELLETTO, the mind, is already convinced of this; CORPO and ANIMA, body and soul, are not yet in agreement. ANIMA cannot find what it longs for in the world, while CORPO cannot get rid of the suspicion that worldly pleasures could bring satisfaction. When ANIMA insists on striving after God, the choir praises God's goodness for strengthening their view. CORPO now agrees to ANIMA. However, their unity is still being tested. CONSIGLIO, the good advice, is at your side. PIACERE, pleasure, describes the beauty of nature and love and tempts CORPO and ANIMA with it. CORPO almost fell for it, but ANIMA stood firm. As CORPO grumbles, ANIMA asks the sky. Through an echo, a heavenly voice confirms ANIMA's attitude. A guardian angel appears for further strengthening, because now MONDO, the world, confronts them personally and promises splendor and wealth. CORPO wants to submit to it, even ANIMA is thinking of a compromise between the world and God, when the Guardian Angel intervenes to warn. The world then sends VITA MONDANA, worldly life, with all its seductive loveliness. But beneath the outward splendor of the world and worldly life there is miserable ugliness. When this is revealed, CORPO finally turns to God. CORPO and ANIMA are invited to heaven as role models for people, where their suffering and happiness are revealed to them once again in a questioning of the damned and the blessed. The performance ends with a festival to praise God.

English

Representation of Soul and Body by Cavalieri, From (2021/2021), Directed by Robert Carsen,, Conductor Giovanni Antonini, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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