Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna

21.06.2019
Opera production
Il Monde Della Luna | © Christian Schneider
Even though the genre designation "science fiction" only began to establish itself from 1929 onwards, it is fair to say that Joseph Haydn had already dared to take a look into space, or more precisely at the moon, 150 years earlier with his comic opera "Il mondo della luna"...
Musical direction
kai Röhrig Scenic direction
karoline Gruber Stage & Costumes
marion Käfer & Egon Stocchi Dramaturgy
ronny Dietrich Music
chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum University

About production

Haydn's fantasies about life on the distant planet with beguiling birdsong, divinely dancing nymphs and, above all, women deeply devoted to their husbands may be far removed from the reality explored in 1969 with the first moon landing, but the longings projected into that distant world are decisive. In Haydn's opera, Buonafede, widowed and plagued by two nubile daughters, dreams of being able to cast off all earthly heaviness and lead a different life in an ideal world that corresponds to his dreams. The fact that in the end his flight to the moon turns out to be a fiction created by humans, which only served to satisfy their own interests, opens up dimensions worth considering.

Dates & Cast

21. June 2019, 19.00
22. June 2019, 17.00
24. June 2019, 19.00
25. June 2019, 7.00 p.m
max Schlereth Hall
 
ECCLITICO: Sascha Zarrabi BONAFEDE: Felix Mischitz CLARICE: Wendy Krikken , Hyun-jung Hwang LISETTA: Zsofia Mozer FLAMINIA: Mariya Taniguchi, Dares Hutawattana ERNESTO: Tolga Siner, Hyunsik Ko CECCO: Niklas Matthias Mayer

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