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
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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.
Recommended for ages 15 and up
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
Suor Lucilla Pia Sandt
Das Kind Paul Keßler
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 Jada Elies · Emilia Seidlmeier
Children Jada Elies · Stella Schuster · Emilia Seidlmeier · Lukas Ruck · Paul Ruck
The child Paul Keßler
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
This production is made possible by the
Am Schloss Gottesaue 7 · 76131 Karlsruhe
TICKETS
15 € · 10 € (red)
Advance booking starts on 1st August
at the ReserviX advance booking offices
or directly here: → Online order (ReserviX)
(plus advance booking fees)
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.