Aida - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Aida

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10.04.2020 , Friday

18:00 

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Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany

"Amore, sommissione, dolcezza" - these are the attributes that Giuseppe Verdi has attributed to his title character Aida: a woman who stands for pure love, docility and tenderness, thus joining the ranks of those female art figures of the 19th century. Aida's way of doing so is marked by the fact that Aida is the opposite of Verdi's previous operas, but in contrast to Aida's predestined love, Amneris. ...

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"Amore, sommissione, dolcezza" - these are the attributes that Giuseppe Verdi has attributed to his title character Aida: a woman who stands for pure love, docility and tenderness, thus joining the ranks of those female art figures of the 19th century. Aida's way of doing so is marked by the fact that Aida is the opposite of Verdi's previous operas, but in contrast to Aida's predestined love, Amneris. With "molto vivacità" Verdi characterizes her in his personal directory: At Amneris life pulsates, like a lioness she fights for her love, with her a tangible relationship is possible, but Radames, the man between Aida and Amneris, can not agree Realistic life decides, he loses himself in fantasies of Aida, the "exotic", far away In her dreams Radames becomes a hero in her fight against oppression and suffering, but she also exists in exotic, other worlds, far from her own reality. Radames stages his heroism in front of the public and at the same time suffers from the failure of his own claim to be able to reconcile utopian love and political utopia. Because his dream figure Aida is destined to die anyway, and the rescue of all prisoners and oppressed both futile and for their part connected with violence. Thus, a hero who is far from reality and suffering from his own world pain is at the center of an opera that is perhaps the most pessimistic of Giuseppe Verdi. Because it ends with the flight from the world and with the complete retreat into a stone mausoleum. At the end, the death of Aida also stands for the death of utopia.

In this sense, director Benedikt von Peter sees Verdi's "Grand Opéra" AIDA as a "Requiem on Utopia", which is constantly being pursued by innumerable pairs of eyes of the public, and plays the entire auditorium of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in its production. Benedikt von Peter has attracted attention in recent years with his directorial work and often unusual spatial solutions, i.a. Verdis I MASNADIERI at the Frankfurt Opera, at the Komische Oper Berlin Handel's THESEUS, FIDELIO and IDOMENEO, at the Theater Basel LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES and PARSIFAL as well as at the Hanover State Opera Luigi Nono's INTOLLERANZA 1960, LA TRAVIATA and DON GIOVANNI. Benedikt von Peter has been honored several times for his productions in recent years: for CHIEF JOSEPH at the Theater Heidelberg he received the 2007 Götz-Friedrich Prize, and for INTOLLERANZA in 1960, the German Theater Prize THE FAUST. In 2012 - 2015 he was engaged as the director of music theater in Bremen. In 2014 he was awarded the Kurt Hübner Prize for his productions at the Theater Bremen (including the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany, Los Angeles, Mahler III, and Meister Singers) and for the overall performance of the music theater section. From the 2016/2017 season, Benedikt von Peter will be artistic director of the Lucerne Theater.

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