Suor Angelica · Mese Mariano

Two short operas by Giacomo Puccini and Umberto Giordano with students from the Institute for Music Theatre at the Wolfgang Rihm Forum of the Karlsruhe University of Music

In their short operas Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) and Mese Mariano (Marian Month), Giacomo Puccini and Umberto Giordano - two of the leading opera composers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century - use their usual emotional tonal language to create nuanced portraits of two young women who become unwantedly pregnant, abandoned by their husbands and thus become social outcasts. The works, set in a convent environment, can be experienced for the first time this autumn in four performances at the Wolfgang Rihm Forum. Under the direction of Institute Director Andrea Raabe and the musical direction of Alois Seidelmeier, students from the Institute for Music Theatre at the Karlsruhe University of Music will bring the touching fates of the two women and their struggle for self-determination and recognition to life on these evenings.

SUOR ANGELICA
Opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano
Performance rights @ Casa Ricordi Srl., Milano, represented by G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin
CAST
Suor Angelica Clara Elies · Floriane Petit
La Zia Principessa Juyeon Jeong
La Badessa Mariko Lepage
La Suora Zelatrice Katharina Bierweiler            
La Maestra delle Novizie Gerda Iguchi                    
Suor Genovieffa Alona Zahoria                     
Suor Osmina Milena Böhm                    
Suor Dolcina Mariia Sytailo                    
Suora Infermiera Gerda Iguchi
La Cercatrice 1 Ruslana Danyliv        
La Cercatrice 2 Mariia Sytailo
La Novizia Lina Wagner                    
Due le Converse 1. Lina Wagner · 2. Flavia Sciullo

MESE MARIANO
Opera in one act by Umberto Giordano, libretto by Salvatore Di Giacomo
Performance rights @ Casa Musicale Sonzogno, represented by Alkor-Edition Kassel
CAST
Carmela Aleksandra Domashchuk · Xinwei Li
La Contessa Flavia Sciullo
Don Fabiano, Il Rettore Zafeirios Angelopoulos · Xiaocheng Wang
La Superiora Juyeon Jeong
Suor Pazienza Katharina Bierweiler    
Suor Celeste Ruslana Danyliv     
Suor Cristina Mariia Sytailo        
Suor Agnese Alona Zahoria         
Suor Maria Lina Wagner        
Valentina/Valentino Chun-Kai Hsu · Jada Elies · Emilia Seidlmeier

Musical direction Alois Seidlmeier
Staging Andrea Raabe
Dramaturgy André Meyer
Stage and costume design Julia Schnittger
Choreography Paz Montero

Introduction at 6.45 pm in MUTprobe 1

Further performances will take place on 7th and 9th of November. Each performance starts at 7.30 pm