Attila - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Attila
Dramma lirico in a prologue and three-act libretto by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave
Premiered February 4, 2023
Concert performance in Italian with German and English surtitles
Attila, the Hun king, overruns villages and towns, including Aquileia, on his triumphal march through Italy. While the surviving residents escape to the lagoons and found Venice at the same time, Odabella, the daughter of the fallen ruler, puts up a fight. Impressed by her bravery, Attila falls in love with her. Odabella pretends to be her father's killer, but secretly wants revenge on him. Together with the Roman general and imperial envoy Ezio, her real lover Foresto wants to murder the Hun king with a poisonous potion. However, Odabella thwarts this, believing that only she can seek revenge.
Giuseppe Verdi's opera »Attila« from its first phase of success is full of energy. In particular, Odabella's entrance aria as a "belligerent, triumphant Amazon with a highly dramatic, virtuoso voice" shows right at the beginning of the opera the dramatic intensity with which Verdi portrays the characters. The extensive history painting - a battle between the heathen Huns and Christian Italy - shines in particular thanks to the rousingly straightforward choirs with their martial-heroic profile; a further development of the choruses from »Nabucco« (1842). The story is based on the romantic tragedy »Attila, König der Hunnen« (1808) by the great German romantic dramatist, Zacharias Werner. Even Ludwig van Beethoven was deeply impressed and toyed with the idea of setting this work to music. As a librettist, Verdi worked with both Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave. The planned premiere during the Venetian carnival season in January 1846 had to be postponed by two months because of Verdi's serious illness.
For the concert performance in the Semperoper, the Verdi specialist Jordi Bernàcer could be won as musical director.
Subject to change.
Premiered February 4, 2023
Concert performance in Italian with German and English surtitles
Attila, the Hun king, overruns villages and towns, including Aquileia, on his triumphal march through Italy. While the surviving residents escape to the lagoons and found Venice at the same time, Odabella, the daughter of the fallen ruler, puts up a fight. Impressed by her bravery, Attila falls in love with her. Odabella pretends to be her father's killer, but secretly wants revenge on him. Together with the Roman general and imperial envoy Ezio, her real lover Foresto wants to murder the Hun king with a poisonous potion. However, Odabella thwarts this, believing that only she can seek revenge.
Giuseppe Verdi's opera »Attila« from its first phase of success is full of energy. In particular, Odabella's entrance aria as a "belligerent, triumphant Amazon with a highly dramatic, virtuoso voice" shows right at the beginning of the opera the dramatic intensity with which Verdi portrays the characters. The extensive history painting - a battle between the heathen Huns and Christian Italy - shines in particular thanks to the rousingly straightforward choirs with their martial-heroic profile; a further development of the choruses from »Nabucco« (1842). The story is based on the romantic tragedy »Attila, König der Hunnen« (1808) by the great German romantic dramatist, Zacharias Werner. Even Ludwig van Beethoven was deeply impressed and toyed with the idea of setting this work to music. As a librettist, Verdi worked with both Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave. The planned premiere during the Venetian carnival season in January 1846 had to be postponed by two months because of Verdi's serious illness.
For the concert performance in the Semperoper, the Verdi specialist Jordi Bernàcer could be won as musical director.
Subject to change.
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