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Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influenced the course of human history. The conclusion of the trilogy deals with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.
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César regresa en triunfo a Roma y la gente sale de sus casas para celebrar. Alarmado por la popularidad del autócrata, la élite educada conspira para derribarlo. Después de su asesinato, estalla una guerra civil en las calles de la capital. La producción de Nicholas Hytner llevará al público a la fiesta en la calle que saluda el regreso de César, el congreso que presencia su asesinato, el mitin que se reúne para su funeral y el caos que explota a su paso.
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Filmación de una representación especial para celebrar el 25º aniversario de este fenómeno musical internacional, que cuenta con la participación de miembros del elenco original, incluidos Jonathan Pryce y Lea Salonga. Miss Saigón, inspirada en "Madame Butterfly" de Giacomo Puccini pero ambientada en la Guerra del Vietnam, es un musical de gran éxito de Claude-Michel Schönberg y Alain Boublil (autores también del musical "Los miserables") que narra un épico romance épico entre Kim, una chica de alterne huérfana a causa de la guerra, y Chris, un soldado estadounidense, cuyas vidas se verán truncadas por la caída de Saigón.
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This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The Novice of Palermo, and became known as a cursed opera from which the composer had to distance himself. Wagner's adaptation of the story reflects the rebellious mood of a Revolutionary Germany, vindicating sensual love and attack the fanatical repression of sexuality by a puritanical and hypocritical authority. As the prose says, "Shame to him whose cruel striking/Kills for faults of his own liking!". One of the most extraordinary musicals based on a text by Shakespeare, especially worthy of a new performance as it is four hundred years since the death of the Bard.
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A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in English, and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth – recently announced as the successor to Edward Gardner as Music Director of English National Opera. Mahagonny is a satire on money, morality and pleasure-seeking among the dubious citizens of a fictional city. The richly varied, jazz-infused score, influenced by ragtime music, includes such irresistible melodies as the ‘Alabama Song’ and many dramatic ensembles. The superb cast includes Kurt Streit as the wild lumberjack Jimmy, Christine Rice as his sweetheart Jenny, Anne Sofie von Otter in a welcome return to The Royal Opera as the cunning Leokadja Begbick, and Peter Hoare and Willard W. White as her helpers and fellow-fugitives Fatty and Moses.
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It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
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Tim Rice's epic new musical of love and desire, From Here To Eternity, adapted from the classic 1951 novel.
