16.11.2024–12.01.2025 / Opera

Prima la Mamma!

Customs and mores at the theatre
Gaetano Donizetti
Dates
19:00 - 21:15
Opera
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Includes a welcome drink
15:00 - 17:15
For the last time this season Opera
Afterwards: Nachgefragt
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Sonntagnachmittags-Abo
Content
Scandal behind the scenes!
Comic opera in two acts
Libretto by the composer
German text by Stefan A. Troßbach
With the ouverture from 'Alahor in Granata' and additional arias from 'Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali' (version Vito Frazzi), ‘Anna Bolena’, ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ and ‘Pia de’ Tolomei’

In German and Italian language with German surtitles
approx. 2 ¼ hours, one interval
For all from 14 upwards
Theatre, theatre everywhere! During rehearsals for the highly tragic period piece ‘Romulus and Ersilia’, everything somehow goes wrong: the prima donna doesn't feel well, the trouser role doesn't like itself and the tenor finally wants to play first violin.
And to make matters worse, Mamma Agata, the second soprano's weird helicopter mother, bursts in...
When the trouser role and the tenor finally leave in a huff, the need is great: who is going to sing Romulus? Without further ado and very helpfully, the completely unmusical Mamma Agata wants to step in. But before it gets that far, let alone the performance of the opera, everything is over and the opera house is to be closed!

In his opera buffa, in which the Mamma is played by a baritone (!), Gaetano Donizetti creates a musically colourful and virtuoso parody of the customs and mores of the theatre with all the clichés and eccentric tendencies of the artists, staged in a comedic, shrill and colourful way by director Daniel Kramer (‘Die tote Stadt’).

Musikalische Leitung
Inszenierung
Dramaturgie
additional music
From “Alahor in Granata”
Overture

From “Lucrezia Borgia”
Ballad of Maffio Orsini “Il segreto per esser felici”

From “Anna Bolena”
Aria of Anna Bolena “Al dolce guidami”
Aria of Lord Riccardo Percy “Vivi tu, te ne scongiuro”

From “Pia de' Tolomei”
Pia's aria “O tu che desti il fulmine”

From the “Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali” version by Vito Frazzi
Guglielmo's aria “Ah, tu mi vuoi”
Cast
Daria (Primadonna)
Procolo, ihr Mann
Mamma Agata
Luigia, ihre Tochter
Dorothea
Maestro Andreas
Dichter Heinrich
Regisseur Bertolt
Intendant
Behind the Scenes

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