Zazà - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Zazà
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25.09.2020 , Friday
19:00
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Theater an der Wien, Linke Wienzeile 6, 1060 Vienna
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Commedia lirica in four acts (1919)
Ruggero Leoncavallo music
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo with the collaboration of Carlo Zangarini
based on the play of the same name by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon
In Italian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Zazà is the celebrated star of the Alcazar Variety Theater in St. Etienne, a French provincial town in the wider Paris area. All men are at her feet, only Parisian businessman Milio Dufresne seems to prefer her rival Floriana. What you cannot have becomes what you long for: Zazà has long since kept an eye on the unruly and is now betting with journalist Bussy that Milio will have fallen for her in no time. The victory will be easy for her because Milio secretly desires Zazà, but has not dared to approach the much-loved, not least because he fears for his reputation. His concerns are quickly swept away by Zazà's aggressive temptation to seduce, and the two become lovers. This ambitious conquest, however, is doomed to Zazà. She falls seriously in love with Milio, wants to become his wife and leave the jingles behind. But the dream bursts: Cascart, her stage partner and former lover, tells her that he saw Milio in Paris with another woman. Furious, Zazà drives to Paris, enters Milio's apartment to fight with the competitor for her future. In the apartment, however, she only meets a little girl - Totò, Milio's daughter. She tells the nice strange woman about her mother and that the small family will soon go to America. Gradually, Zazà reveals that Milio is married and has lied to him about his marital status from the start. When Madame Dufresne finally comes home and wonders about the stranger in her living room, Zazà pretends to be wrong in the address and leaves. She decides not to destroy family happiness because she remembers her own fate, which she wants to spare little Totò: Zazà's father had left her mother Anaide, whereupon the mother fell into alcohol. When Milio comes back to her, she separates from him. Last but not least, he reveals his true bourgeois disposition, and Zazà doesn't even have a beautiful memory of romantic love - she herself sadly resigns herself to being a variety star.
Subject to changes.
Ruggero Leoncavallo music
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo with the collaboration of Carlo Zangarini
based on the play of the same name by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon
In Italian with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
Zazà is the celebrated star of the Alcazar Variety Theater in St. Etienne, a French provincial town in the wider Paris area. All men are at her feet, only Parisian businessman Milio Dufresne seems to prefer her rival Floriana. What you cannot have becomes what you long for: Zazà has long since kept an eye on the unruly and is now betting with journalist Bussy that Milio will have fallen for her in no time. The victory will be easy for her because Milio secretly desires Zazà, but has not dared to approach the much-loved, not least because he fears for his reputation. His concerns are quickly swept away by Zazà's aggressive temptation to seduce, and the two become lovers. This ambitious conquest, however, is doomed to Zazà. She falls seriously in love with Milio, wants to become his wife and leave the jingles behind. But the dream bursts: Cascart, her stage partner and former lover, tells her that he saw Milio in Paris with another woman. Furious, Zazà drives to Paris, enters Milio's apartment to fight with the competitor for her future. In the apartment, however, she only meets a little girl - Totò, Milio's daughter. She tells the nice strange woman about her mother and that the small family will soon go to America. Gradually, Zazà reveals that Milio is married and has lied to him about his marital status from the start. When Madame Dufresne finally comes home and wonders about the stranger in her living room, Zazà pretends to be wrong in the address and leaves. She decides not to destroy family happiness because she remembers her own fate, which she wants to spare little Totò: Zazà's father had left her mother Anaide, whereupon the mother fell into alcohol. When Milio comes back to her, she separates from him. Last but not least, he reveals his true bourgeois disposition, and Zazà doesn't even have a beautiful memory of romantic love - she herself sadly resigns herself to being a variety star.
Subject to changes.