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Leonora - Premiere
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24.04.2027, Saturday
18:00
Semperoper, Theaterplatz 2, 01067 Dresden, Germany
Fatto storico in two acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa and Giacomo Cinti based on the French libretto Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal (1798) by Jean Nicolas Bouilly
In Italian with German and English surtitles
What are you prepared to risk your life for? In order to track down her husband Florestano, Leonora sneaks into a prison disguised as a man. Florestano is being held there for personal revenge by Governor Don Pizzarro, whom he once accused of corruption. A race for life and death begins ...
Ferdinando Paër's (1771-1839) Leonora ossia L'amor coniugale, which premiered at the Kleines Kurfürstliches Theater in Dresden in 1804, is, like Beethoven's Fidelio, based on Jean Nicolas Bouilly's Léonore libretto, which was extremely popular at the time and was supposedly based on a true story from the French Revolution. In Paër's tragicomic and true-to-life portrayal, conjugal love triumphs over political despotism and bourgeois order over revolution. Regardless of this plea for stability, the will to truth and the desire to change reality remain alive in the opera.
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