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19:00 | Der Kaiser von Atlantis |
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 Opera in one act by Viktor Ullmann. Libretto Franz Peter Keen. Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the creation of the opera. Stage director: Vadim Letunov. Conductor-stage director: Elena Sosulnikova. Production designer: Rostislav Protasov. The Emperor of Atlantis by V. Ullmann will be presented for the first time on the stage of the opera house in Moscow, which will be the first full-fledged directorial work of Vadim Letunov, a graduate of GITIS, director. Elena Sosulnikova is responsible for the musical part, who will also be staging the performance as a conductor for the first time. Together with them, the team includes experienced master, production designer Rostislav Protasov, lighting designer Vladislav Alexandrov and choreographer Ksenia Lisanskaya. Viktor Ullmann, the famous Czech composer of Jewish origin, a pupil of Schoenberg, wrote his opera The Emperor of Atlantis in Terezin two years before his death in the gas chamber. The story of its creation and resurrection is no less tragic than the era in which the author lived... Viktor Ullmann was deported to Theresienstadt - a “model camp” for Jews that the Nazis organized in the Czech fortress of Terezin - in September 1942. During his two years there, the composer wrote more than 20 works, including the opera The Emperor of Atlantis. According to Ullmann, this opera is about “life, which has forgotten how to laugh. And about death, which has forgotten how to cry, in a world that has forgotten how to rejoice in life and die in death.” However, it seemed so satirical that it was banned by the Nazi censorship and withdrawn after the dress rehearsal.
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 Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. 160 min (with one intermission) Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on "La Dame aux cam?lias." Music Director: Laurent Campellone. Stage Director: Francesca Zambello. Sung in Italian with Russian surtitles. During Verdi’s lifetime La Traviata was one of the most frequently performed of all operas, and it has continued to be through to the present. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice. Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, "c. 1700". It was not until the 1880s that the composer's and librettist's original wishes were carried out and "realistic" productions were staged. La Traviata is the story of a lively Parisian courtesan who gives up the man she loves to save his family’s reputation. Perhaps this is the greatest theme of La Traviata; self-sacrifice. The opera is a touching story, not just because it is a story people can believe in, but because it is a story people want to believe in. It encourages the ideal that it is possible to experience the joy of a pure, redemptive love. The story shows that it is possible – no matter what hurt and offence has been caused – to right wrongs by sacrifice to the greatest good.
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