Monterone
好色で放蕩三昧を繰り広げるマントヴァ公爵は、今日もモンテローネ伯爵の娘をたぶらかしてしまいます。嘆く伯爵を笑いものにする道化師リゴレット。しかし、今日ばかりは伯爵も笑ってすますことはできません。「父親の苦悩を笑ったお前も呪われてしまえ」その言葉がリゴレットの胸に突き刺さります。そんなリゴレットの一人娘ジルダに迫りくるマントヴァ公爵の魔の手。彼は身分を偽りジルダに近づいていたのでした。そんないきさつを知らない公爵の家臣たちは、ジルダのことを「リゴレットの愛人」を勘違いし、誘拐して館に連れてくるのですが・・・。
Biterolf
Music & Musicals, Opera & Operetta, Classical Music - Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conducted by Franz Welser-Most and featuring Peter Sieffert (Tannhauser), Solveig Kringelborn (Elisabeth) and Thomas Hampson (von Eschenbach). Initially produced in Dresden in 1845, "Tannhauser" instilled a sense of wonder in a few of Strauss's ardent friends and admirers, among them Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt. Opera buffs will love it.
Animal Trainer/Acrobat
Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals. On the one hand, this is due to the dubious character of the subject, the man-eating femme fatale, which Berg had taken from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu tragedies – "The Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" – and combined into one opera libretto. On the other hand, Berg's window had (for personal reasons) repeatedly refused to have the opera completed, which was unfinished when Berg died. This video is of the unfinished two-act torso of "Lulu."
Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien. Neither an opera nor an operetta, it was a work that did not fit into any of the pre-defined categories. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 1999, the Zurich opera house presented a new production, the work's Swiss premiere. This production picked up on various impulses from the history of the works origin, using them to create a unique version of the piece. Here, for example, is the "Donauweibchen" incorporated shortly before the end. The Austrian-born chief conductor of the Zurich opera house, Franz Welser-Möst, has left his mark as a native speaker on this "Simplicius" production both here and elsewhere.
