Irene - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Irene
Opera in three acts (1738)
Music by Johann Adolf Hasse
Libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino
Concert performance in Italian
Empress Irene ruled Byzantium for her not yet mature son Isaccio. At this dignity she carries heavy, because secretly she is in love with the much younger Niceforo, son of her confidante Oreste, in love. Her passion grows so great that, ignoring all imperial composure, with the help of Niceforo's sister Eudossa, she finds Niceforo in love with her, too. She is very fortunate to make him a consort to any convention. Eudossa feels a violent, very unsupported jealousy. She is again unsuccessfully courted by Isaccio. In order to be able to make her by order also against her will to his bride, Isaccio now wants to take over from his mother Irene finally the sole rule. He incites an uprising against the empress with Oreste and has them imprisoned. However, she is immediately released from Niceforo again. Already Irene has announced her engagement with her savior, when Oreste reveals that he had once eaten away his own son with that of the imperial couple, so Niceforo Irenes son and Isaccio is his. After a brief shock, the feelings sort themselves again: Irene renounces the power and transforms from the woman in love with a loving mother, her real son becomes emperor and marries Eudossa, the wrong, previous heir to the throne goes into exile with Oreste. This scandalous-piquant potential containing opera seria unrestrained ambition, child exchange and near-incest was premiered on February 6, 1738 at the Dresden Court Theater, on the occasion of the birthday of Tsarina Anna, which, however, was not present - whether the piece honoring or satirical on the Celebrated referenced, today is no longer to decide. The title role was written by the composer Johann Adolph Hasse for his wife, the star soprano Faustina Bordoni, and she created a play full of dazzling facets to demonstrate her art with the unbelievably passionate and doubtful Empress. The opera had at least five performances in Dresden, where Hasse was the honored court composer for more than 30 years, before it disappeared into the archives to this day.
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Music by Johann Adolf Hasse
Libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino
Concert performance in Italian
Empress Irene ruled Byzantium for her not yet mature son Isaccio. At this dignity she carries heavy, because secretly she is in love with the much younger Niceforo, son of her confidante Oreste, in love. Her passion grows so great that, ignoring all imperial composure, with the help of Niceforo's sister Eudossa, she finds Niceforo in love with her, too. She is very fortunate to make him a consort to any convention. Eudossa feels a violent, very unsupported jealousy. She is again unsuccessfully courted by Isaccio. In order to be able to make her by order also against her will to his bride, Isaccio now wants to take over from his mother Irene finally the sole rule. He incites an uprising against the empress with Oreste and has them imprisoned. However, she is immediately released from Niceforo again. Already Irene has announced her engagement with her savior, when Oreste reveals that he had once eaten away his own son with that of the imperial couple, so Niceforo Irenes son and Isaccio is his. After a brief shock, the feelings sort themselves again: Irene renounces the power and transforms from the woman in love with a loving mother, her real son becomes emperor and marries Eudossa, the wrong, previous heir to the throne goes into exile with Oreste. This scandalous-piquant potential containing opera seria unrestrained ambition, child exchange and near-incest was premiered on February 6, 1738 at the Dresden Court Theater, on the occasion of the birthday of Tsarina Anna, which, however, was not present - whether the piece honoring or satirical on the Celebrated referenced, today is no longer to decide. The title role was written by the composer Johann Adolph Hasse for his wife, the star soprano Faustina Bordoni, and she created a play full of dazzling facets to demonstrate her art with the unbelievably passionate and doubtful Empress. The opera had at least five performances in Dresden, where Hasse was the honored court composer for more than 30 years, before it disappeared into the archives to this day.
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