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Ottone Thu 22.08.2019 • 20.00
Opera
Ottone
Tickets from 29 Euro Sold out
Date Thu 22.08.2019
Time 20.00
Venue Die heutige Vorstellung findet aufgrund der unsicheren Wetterprognosen im Haus der Musik Innsbruck (Großer Saal) statt.
Introduction 19.00

Georg Friedrich Händel: «Ottone, Rè di Germania» HWV 15
Dramma per musica in three acts, Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after Benedetto Pallavicino
First performance: London, King’s Theatre Haymarket, 1723
Sung in Italian with German surtitles

A coproduction with the Göttingen International Handel Festival​ and the Handel Festival in Halle.

«Ottone» was one of Handel’s most successful and most performed operas during his lifetime. A sensational meeting of Handel’s prima donnas Cuzzoni and Durastanti as well as the castrato Senesino with the competition’s star, the incomparable castrato Farinelli, took place in London. Senesino retained the title role of Ottone, while Farinelli sang the part of Ottone’s scheming opponent Adelberto. Not only did two castrato legends thus «clash» in «Ottone» but, in terms of the opera’s plot, so did the cultures of the two Roman Empires: Byzantium in the east and Rome in the west. 
Handel’s music examines the true feelings of people. The singers of the Baroque Opera:Young ensemble are up for the challenge of making their characters’ jealousies and hopes, their pain and joy aurally palpable. To set the scene for the Roman games of power and love, the courtyard of the Faculty of Theology will be transformed into an entrance hall in which people caught up in their feelings and their diverse life plans meet, take the measure of each other and try to make profitable connections.

 

Production

Fabrizio Ventura

Musical direction

Anna Magdalena Fitzi

Stage direction

Bettina Munzer

Set and costumes

Accademia La Chimera

Orchestra

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Cast

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Marie Seidler

Ottone

Mariamielle Lamagat © Céline Bousseyroux
Mariamielle Lamagat

Teofane

Valentina Stadler_(c)Alex Malecki
Valentina Stadler

Gismonda

Yannick Debus © Farina Grieb
Yannick Debus

Emireno

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Alberto Miguélez Rouco

Adelberto

Angelica Monje Torrez © Myriam Brunner
Angelica Monje Torrez

Matilda

Further information
Introduction

As an additional service, we offer a free introductory talk. Rainer Lepuschitz discusses aspects of the opera with the artists of the evening. The introduction starts at 19.00.

Accessibility

We would be glad to assist wheelchair users with informations regarding the ticket, parking space and access to the venues. Please order your tickets at the ticket office at Haus der Musik Innsbruck.

Discounts

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

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