Les Vêpres Siciliennes - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Les Vêpres Siciliennes
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18.05.2025 , Sunday
17:00
Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany
Seating plan
Opera in five acts
Libretto by Eugene Scribe and Charles Duveyrier
First performance on June 13, 1855 at the Théâtre Impérial de L'Opéra Paris as part of the Paris World Exhibition
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on March 20, 2022
recommended from 16 years
3 hours 45 minutes / One break
In French with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Verdi demanded “great, passionate and original material” for the first opera he was to write for the Paris Opéra. What the star author Eugène Scribe finally provided him with was a libretto of similar political explosiveness as the texts of the grand opéras Giacomo Meyerbeer, with whom Scribe had previously worked for LES HUGUENOTS and LE PROPHETE. Because like them, LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES dealt with a topic that was ostensibly historical, but at the same time highly topical. The uprising of the Sicilians against their French occupiers in 1282, known as the "Sicilian Vespers", could easily be linked to the most prominent expansion project in France around the middle of the 19th century: the conquest and colonization of Algeria, which began in 1830 and was also repeatedly suppressed in blood was accompanied by riots. This reference also forms the approach to the staging by the French director Olivier Py, who has already shown his flair for how the grand opéra deals with political subjects at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE: The French occupation of Algeria from the time of Verdi to in The 1950s form the framework for his narration of this story, with which Verdi, after LA TRAVIATA and RIGOLETTO, again expands the focus of his music dramas: it is no longer just about the fate of the individual, but about his relationship to the weal and woe of entire peoples It is in LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES that unconditional hatred, the desire for reconciliation and the dichotomy between these extremes determine the actions of the main characters as well as the actions of the occupiers and the oppressed.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the work, which was long overshadowed by the other great Verdi operas, will not be performed in the Italian adaptation that has long been customary, but in the original French version from 1855. The Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola, who has already been enthusiastically celebrated for his conducting of Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE, VASCO DA GAMA and DINORAH, will be at the podium.
Subject to change.
Libretto by Eugene Scribe and Charles Duveyrier
First performance on June 13, 1855 at the Théâtre Impérial de L'Opéra Paris as part of the Paris World Exhibition
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on March 20, 2022
recommended from 16 years
3 hours 45 minutes / One break
In French with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Verdi demanded “great, passionate and original material” for the first opera he was to write for the Paris Opéra. What the star author Eugène Scribe finally provided him with was a libretto of similar political explosiveness as the texts of the grand opéras Giacomo Meyerbeer, with whom Scribe had previously worked for LES HUGUENOTS and LE PROPHETE. Because like them, LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES dealt with a topic that was ostensibly historical, but at the same time highly topical. The uprising of the Sicilians against their French occupiers in 1282, known as the "Sicilian Vespers", could easily be linked to the most prominent expansion project in France around the middle of the 19th century: the conquest and colonization of Algeria, which began in 1830 and was also repeatedly suppressed in blood was accompanied by riots. This reference also forms the approach to the staging by the French director Olivier Py, who has already shown his flair for how the grand opéra deals with political subjects at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE: The French occupation of Algeria from the time of Verdi to in The 1950s form the framework for his narration of this story, with which Verdi, after LA TRAVIATA and RIGOLETTO, again expands the focus of his music dramas: it is no longer just about the fate of the individual, but about his relationship to the weal and woe of entire peoples It is in LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES that unconditional hatred, the desire for reconciliation and the dichotomy between these extremes determine the actions of the main characters as well as the actions of the occupiers and the oppressed.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the work, which was long overshadowed by the other great Verdi operas, will not be performed in the Italian adaptation that has long been customary, but in the original French version from 1855. The Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola, who has already been enthusiastically celebrated for his conducting of Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE, VASCO DA GAMA and DINORAH, will be at the podium.
Subject to change.