Featuring
Soloists and choir from the Karlsruhe University of Music
Conducted by students of the major subject class Prof. Beckert
about this event
Some of Henry Purcell's semi-operas are set in exotic surroundings. "This is the case in The Indian Queen (1695; unfinished), for example, although the piece, which goes back to Dryden, deals with a political conflict in pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru. The Peruvian general Montezuma tries in vain to win the hand of the Inca daughter Orazia. He then joins the usurping Indian queen Zempoalla, who falls in love with him: the occasion for one of Purcell's most beautiful arias (I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain - Vergeblichs suche ich der Liebesqual zu entfliehen). In the end, she commits suicide with her son, while Montezuma proves to be the rightful heir to the throne of Mexico and takes Orazia as his queen. Purcell's score ends with the highly impressive beginning of the fifth act, when Montezuma and Orazia are to be executed in the temple of the sun god (Inca)." (translated text by Ulrich Schreiber: Opernführer für Fortgeschrittene (Opera guide for the advanced)
Am Schloss Gottesaue 7 · 76131 Karlsruhe
TICKETS
15 € · 10 € (red)
Advance booking starts on 15th March
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Remaining tickets at the box office from 1 hour before the event.
Free tickets are available for everyone up to the age of 18, students from all universities, vocational school students, those doing a voluntary social year and federal voluntary service, as well as for Kulturlots:innen.
Free tickets are available at the box office, depending on free places.