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The Deutsche Oper Berlin presents Richard Wagner's "Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes" in a provocative multimedia production by Philipp Stölzl.

Rome in flames − it is the middle of the Fourteenth Century, the Pope rules from Avignon. In the Eternal City the rival noble families of the Colonna and Orsini are engaged in a bitter struggle for political dominance. A charismatic idealist seizes power, a man from the people and leader of the citizens’ party − Cola di Rienzi. Six decades after its successful Dresden premiere, a penniless “artist” finds his own political mission prefigured in Richard Wagner’s work about the rise and fall of a tribune of the people. His name: Adolf Hitler. 
 
Director Philipp Stölzl interprets Rienzi as a parable of the dangerous tightrope walk between idealism, hubris and realpolitik. The republican dream of the people’s tribune ends in dictatorship and destruction. For him, in a series of symbols unique to himself, the stage becomes a multimedia experiment, set up to show the inevitable fate of a “hero.”

In German language with German surtitles

Conductor, Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Director, Philipp Stölzl
Co-direcctor, Mara Kurotschka
Stage-design, Ulrike Siegrist, Philipp Stölzl
Costume design, Kathi Maurer, Ursula Kudrna
Video, FettFilm (Momme Hinrichs und Torge Møller)
Choir Conductor, William Spaulding

Rienzi, Torsten Kerl
Irene, Manuela Uhl
Steffano Colonna, Ante Jerkunica
Adriano, Daniela Sindram
Paolo Orsini, Krzysztof Szumanski
Cardinal Orvieto, Lenus Carlson
Baroncelli, Clemens Bieber
Cecco del Vecchio, Stephen Bronk
 
Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com