Simona Šaturová

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Herbert Blomstedt (Actor), Gewandhausorchester (Actor), Ute Feudel (Director)

Having disposed of his enemies, Lucio Silla is now all-powerful. He wants to marry Giunia, but underestimates how much she hates him. After all, he has not only had her father murdered, but has also banished her beloved, Cecilio. At first, Giunia is misled into thinking that Cecilio is dead; with the help of Cinna, however, the lovers manage to meet up again. The power of love and Cinna’s machinations finally persuade Silla to relinquish his power.

1764. Dans une Venise libertine, le musicien et compositeur Josef Myslivecek, surnommé "Il Boemo", ne parvient pas à percer malgré son talent. Sa liaison avec une femme de la cour lui permet d’accéder à son rêve et de composer un opéra. Dès lors sa renommée grandit, mais jusqu’où ira-t-il ? La vie, l’œuvre et les frasques d’un compositeur de génie oublié que le jeune Mozart admirait.

Rome, 79 AD. The emperor Titus narrowly escapes the attack his best friend Sextus has plotted against him under pressure from his beloved Vitellia. Titus is faced with the heartrending choice of following his feelings and granting his friend clemency, or following his reason and condemning him. In La Clemenza di Tito Mozart returned to opera seria just a few months before his death. He had not worked in this genre since Idomeneo. For a long time this work, quite unjustifiably, remained in the shadow of his other great masterpieces, despite the fact that much of the music he wrote for this work is among the best in his oeuvre. Having previously staged Idomeneo, Ivo van Hove, now together with Ludovic Morlot, is presenting a new interpretation that will undoubtedly do full justice to the everlasting topicality, powerful drama and musical splendour of this mixture of friendship and revenge, passion and politics.