Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho

19.01.2019
Opera production
Oper Don Quichotte | © Christian Schneider
Don Quixote is the story of someone who cannot bear the monotony and small cruelties of everyday life. Therefore, he flees to a fantasy world much larger and more exciting than his reality could ever be. The novel by Miguel de Cervantes, whose life has many parallels with the adventures of his hero, is world literature. In the anarchic epic is also found the episode of the participation of the knight Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza in the wedding of the Comacho. 
Musical Director
Kai Röhrig Scenic Director
Diana Merkel Stage
Anna Schöttl Costumes
Anna Wunderskirchner, Sebastian Helminger & Department for Scenography Dramaturgy
Yvonne Gebauer Music
Chamber Choir & Choir Ensemble of the University Mozarteum

About production

The then 20-year-old Hamburg poet Daniel Schiebeler liked this scene so much that he worked it into an opera one-act together with Georg Philipp Telemann, who was sixty years older. At an age when others had long since retired, the eighty-year-old Telemann began a second creative springtime. He enthusiastically took up the genre of the Singspiel, which was just coming into vogue, and created a brilliantly comic late work with Spanish color and full of ravishing arias and ensembles.

Dates & Cast

19. January 2019, 17.00
21. January 2019, 19.00
max Schlereth Hall
 
DON QUICHOTTE: Felix Mischitz SANCHO PANSA: Di Guan COMACHO: Tolga Siner PEDRILLO - GRISOSTOMO: Zsofia Mozer QUITERIA: Dares Hutawattana BASILIO: Sascha Zarrabi

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