Name: Francesca da Rimini
Start: 2023-02-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Ramón Tebar

Regia

Hans Walter Richter

Scenografia

Johannes Leiacker

Costumi

Raphaela Rose

Luci

Jan Hartmann

Direzione del coro

Tilman Michael

Drammaturgia

Mareike Wink

Cantante

Soprano

Jessica Pratt

Francesca

Mezzosoprano

Kelsey Lauritano

Paolo

Tenore

Theo Lebow

Lanciotto

Basso

Eric van Heyningen

Guido

Karolina Bengtsson

Isaura

Gabriel Wanka

Dance

Annalisa Piccolo

Brian Michael Moore

Guelfo

Coreografia

Jonathan Abernethy

Anna Nekhames

Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Others

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

italiano

Francesca da Rimini

Francoforte

Germania

Opernhaus

Francesca da Rimini Mercadante

Public

tedesco

inglese

Approvato

To seal the dynastic alliance of two families, they had married. But the wife loves her husband's brother - a betrayal that ends in disaster.

The inevitable tragedy of the passionate love story between Francesca da Polenta and Paolo Malatesta, as recorded by Dante in his Divina Commedia , prompted numerous artists to confront it. The librettist Felice Romani, with whom Saverio Mercadante worked again and again, was inspired by adaptations of the material to write a libretto.

It was set to music in 1830, when Mercadante was staying in Madrid for the second time. The score, in which Rossini's influence is still clearly audible, focuses on the three main characters Francesca, Paolo and Lanciotto. The encounter between brother-in-law and sister-in-law in their bedroom is the dramatic and emotional climax of the opera.

Various unfortunate circumstances and rivalries between singers prevented a world premiere of Francesca da Rimini during Mercadante's lifetime - first in Madrid, then also in Milan. So the opera had to wait almost 200 years for its first premiere, which took place in 2016 at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. Like his 58 stage works, the composer Saverio Mercadante has largely fallen into oblivion today. And that despite the fact that from the late 1830s he initiated a reform of Italian opera after Rossini with his "canto drammatico", which incorporated vocal virtuosity into a dramatic overall arc.

English

Die unausweichliche Tragik der leidenschaftlichen Liebesgeschichte zwischen Francesca da Polenta und Paolo Malatesta, wie Dante sie in seiner Divina Commedia festhielt, veranlasste zahlreiche Künstler zu einer Auseinandersetzung. Auch der Librettist Felice Romani, mit dem Saverio Mercadante immer wieder zusammenarbeitete, ließ sich von Bearbeitungen des Stoffes zu einem Textbuch inspirieren.

Im Jahr 1830, als Mercadante sich zum zweiten Mal für längere Zeit in Madrid aufhielt, entstand seine Vertonung. Die Partitur, in der Rossinis Einfluss noch deutlich hörbar ist, fokussiert die drei Hauptfiguren Francesca, Paolo und Lanciotto. Das Zusammentreffen zwischen Schwager und Schwägerin in ihrem Schlafzimmer bildet den dramatischen und emotionalen Höhepunkt der Oper.

Verschiedene unglückliche Umstände und Sängerrivalitäten verhinderten eine Uraufführung von Francesca da Rimini zu Mercadantes Lebzeiten – zunächst in Madrid, dann auch in Mailand. So musste die Oper fast 200 Jahre auf ihre erste Premiere warten, die 2016 beim Festival della Valle d’Itria stattfand. Wie seine 58 Bühnenwerke ist auch der Komponist Saverio Mercadante heute weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Und das, obwohl er ab den späten 1830er Jahren mit seinem »canto drammatico«, welcher die Gesangsvirtuosität in einen dramatischen Gesamtbogen einfügte, eine Reform der italienischen Oper nach Rossini anstieß.

Deutsch

Francesca da Rimini by Mercadante, sab 11 mar 2023, Da (2023/2023), Diretto da Hans Walter Richter,, Direttore d'orchestra Ramón Tebar, Opernhaus, Francoforte, Germania

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