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La Wally
Dramma lirico in four acts (1892)
Music by Alfredo Catalani
Libretto by Luigi Illica based on the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern
In Italian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
The wealthy Stromminger celebrates his 70th birthday in the mountain village of Hochstoff. The hunter Giuseppe Hagenbach bursts into the festival and shows off a bear that has just been killed. Stromminger gets into a violent argument with the self-confident young man. Only Stromminger's daughter Wally was able to separate the men from one another, which left Hagenbach permanently confused, he has never been physically put in his place by a woman. Wally is strong and courageous without any feminine vanity: as Stromminger's only child, she was raised like a boy, but without love. It is scary to men, only Vincenzo Gellner loves it. He knows that Wally is secretly in love with Hagenbach and reveals it to his friend Stromminger. Furious, he lets his daughter choose either to marry Gellner or to leave his house. With her only friend, the young zither player Walter, Wally flees to the mountains. Some time later her father dies, she returns and enjoys her freedom as a rich, beautiful woman, but does not allow any admirer to approach her. She meets Hagenbach again at a party. Gellner, still hapless with her, stirs up her jealousy when Hagenbach chats confidentially with the landlady Afra. When Wally then bullies Afra, Hagenbach avenges his girlfriend: In the traditional kiss dance, he suggests to Wally that he loves her and steals a kiss from her. At the end of the dance everyone laughs at her and she is horrified to understand that she was deceived. So humiliated, she promises Gellner marriage if he kills Hagenbach. Alone at home, Wally regrets her murder assignment, but Gellner pushes the rival into a ravine that same night. Hagenbach wanted to apologize to Wally and her, because he had really fallen in love with her while dancing. When Gellner reports the murder, Wally is desperate, but she is able to rescue Hagenbach unconscious from the ravine. Then she surrenders all of her possessions to Afra and goes to the mountains alone to repent. When Hagenbach is well again, he comes to her to confess his love to her, and he even forgives her for the murder. However, there is no life together for them: Hagenbach is carried away by an avalanche, and Wally jumps into the abyss after him.
Subject to changes.
Music by Alfredo Catalani
Libretto by Luigi Illica based on the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern
In Italian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
The wealthy Stromminger celebrates his 70th birthday in the mountain village of Hochstoff. The hunter Giuseppe Hagenbach bursts into the festival and shows off a bear that has just been killed. Stromminger gets into a violent argument with the self-confident young man. Only Stromminger's daughter Wally was able to separate the men from one another, which left Hagenbach permanently confused, he has never been physically put in his place by a woman. Wally is strong and courageous without any feminine vanity: as Stromminger's only child, she was raised like a boy, but without love. It is scary to men, only Vincenzo Gellner loves it. He knows that Wally is secretly in love with Hagenbach and reveals it to his friend Stromminger. Furious, he lets his daughter choose either to marry Gellner or to leave his house. With her only friend, the young zither player Walter, Wally flees to the mountains. Some time later her father dies, she returns and enjoys her freedom as a rich, beautiful woman, but does not allow any admirer to approach her. She meets Hagenbach again at a party. Gellner, still hapless with her, stirs up her jealousy when Hagenbach chats confidentially with the landlady Afra. When Wally then bullies Afra, Hagenbach avenges his girlfriend: In the traditional kiss dance, he suggests to Wally that he loves her and steals a kiss from her. At the end of the dance everyone laughs at her and she is horrified to understand that she was deceived. So humiliated, she promises Gellner marriage if he kills Hagenbach. Alone at home, Wally regrets her murder assignment, but Gellner pushes the rival into a ravine that same night. Hagenbach wanted to apologize to Wally and her, because he had really fallen in love with her while dancing. When Gellner reports the murder, Wally is desperate, but she is able to rescue Hagenbach unconscious from the ravine. Then she surrenders all of her possessions to Afra and goes to the mountains alone to repent. When Hagenbach is well again, he comes to her to confess his love to her, and he even forgives her for the murder. However, there is no life together for them: Hagenbach is carried away by an avalanche, and Wally jumps into the abyss after him.
Subject to changes.
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