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BAROCKOPER:JUNG
Die römische Unruhe, oder Die edelmütige Octavia
Tickets available at the box office from 6.45pm!
Date Sat 26.08.2017
Time 20.00
20.00
Venue ACHTUNG: Die heutige Vorstellung findet in der Aula der SOWI statt!
Duration Approx. 3 hours und 30 minutes (incl. one intermission)
Introduction 19.00

Sing-Spiel in three acts by Reinhard Keiser
Staged performance, in German und Italian language, with German surtitles

Johann Mattheson referred to Reinhard Keiser as the “greatest opera composer in the world” in his encyclopaedia of musicians. Keiser, who was a direct competitor of George Frideric Handel at the Hamburg opera, wrote compositions of such high quality that Handel later used many of Keiser’s arias in his own operas. From “Octavia” in particular Handel took a substantial portion of Keiser’s material: ten arias in total, of which he used six in “Agrippina”. So there will be many a moment of recognition during the performance of the 2017 BAROCKOPER:JUNG, when the vocalists will sing arias with already well-known melodies, though this time in the original version of Keiser’s “Octavia”. The ravings of Emperor Nero were a favourite subject in baroque literature and music (see Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea”, for example). In German-speaking lands the focus was on Nero’s first wife, Octavia. One of the works in which she was the protagonist was written by Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: an epic novel titled “Roman Octavia”.

In 1705, Keiser set a libretto by Barthold Feind to music, which was called “The Roman Unrest, or The Noble-Minded Octavia” – a long and moralising title, as was customary at that time. Hamburg could afford rather large instrumentations, so Keiser composed a richly coloured score that provided each character with their own tonal qualities.

Nero – a wonderful role for the winner of last year’s Cesti competition, baritone Morgan Pearse – wants to marry the Armenian Queen Ormoena, so he orders his wife Octavia – a magnificent part for the French soprano Suzanne Jerosme – to kill herself. But the story in this opera takes a very different turn from what one would expect...

Production

Jörg Halubek © Christoph Kalscheuer
Jörg Halubek Musikalische Leitung
François De Carpentries © Matthias Stutte
François de Carpentries

Regie
karin van hercke_(c)lammertz
Karine van Hercke Bühnenbild & Kostüme
Ensemble Innsbruck Barock Orchester
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Artists

Morgan Pearse

Nero
Suzanne Jerosme

Octavia
Eric Jurenas

Tiridates 
Federica di Trapani

Ormoena
Yuval Oren

Flora/Livia
Camilo Delgado Diaz

Piso
Robyn Allegra Parton

Clelia
Akinubo Ono

Fabius
Paolo Marchini

Seneca
Jung Kwon Jang

Lepidus
Roberto Jachini Virgili

Davus
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Preview

Le nozze in sogno 2011
Innenhof der Theologischen Fakultät

Universitätsstraße 4, 6020 Innsbruck

Bei schlechter Witterung im Haus der Musik Innsbruck, Großer Saal

Information
Introduction

As an additional service, we offer a free introductory talk. Rainer Lepuschitz discusses aspects of the programme with the artists of the evening. The introduction starts one hour before the performance begins.

Accessibility

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Discounts

Visitors under the age of 30 -50%
Ö1 members -10%
​ÖBB Vorteilscard -10% (only at the box office)

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