Anna Bolena - Premiere - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Anna Bolena - Premiere
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15.12.2023 , Friday
19:00
Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany
Seating plan
Tragedia lirica in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani after "Henri VIII" (1791) by Marie-Joseph de Chénier and "Anna Bolena" (1788) by Alessandro Pèpoli.
First performance on December 26, 1830 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan
Premiere at the Zurich Opera House on December 5, 2021
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on December 15, 2023
recommended from 15 years
3 hours 20 minutes / One break
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Since Shakespeare, the English crown has been the epitome of all royalty, and no other monarchy has had so many stories of blood and passion, meanness, lust for power and renunciation. Probably no composer brought the fascinating power of the »Royals« to the opera stage more effectively than Gaetano Donizetti in his »Tudor Trilogy«. With the first part, ANNA BOLENA, the 33-year-old Donizetti finally stepped out of Rossini's shadow in 1830 and integrated the art of bel canto into a new model of historical opera: with straightforward clarity he tells the tragic fate of the unfortunate woman under the executioner's axe ending second wife of Henry VIII. And above all in the drawing of the title character, he succeeds in using the virtuoso singing technique entirely at the service of highly romantic emotional expression.
Subject to change.
Libretto by Felice Romani after "Henri VIII" (1791) by Marie-Joseph de Chénier and "Anna Bolena" (1788) by Alessandro Pèpoli.
First performance on December 26, 1830 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan
Premiere at the Zurich Opera House on December 5, 2021
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on December 15, 2023
recommended from 15 years
3 hours 20 minutes / One break
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Since Shakespeare, the English crown has been the epitome of all royalty, and no other monarchy has had so many stories of blood and passion, meanness, lust for power and renunciation. Probably no composer brought the fascinating power of the »Royals« to the opera stage more effectively than Gaetano Donizetti in his »Tudor Trilogy«. With the first part, ANNA BOLENA, the 33-year-old Donizetti finally stepped out of Rossini's shadow in 1830 and integrated the art of bel canto into a new model of historical opera: with straightforward clarity he tells the tragic fate of the unfortunate woman under the executioner's axe ending second wife of Henry VIII. And above all in the drawing of the title character, he succeeds in using the virtuoso singing technique entirely at the service of highly romantic emotional expression.
Subject to change.