Das Wundertheater & Der Bajazzo

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The Volksoper Vienna presents two works by the composers Ruggero Leoncavallo and Hans Werner Henze whose operas pose the question of theatre performance and reality in different ways.

How much does theatre have to do with reality? What truths are conveyed to us by the events on the stage and the reactions of the audience? Hans Werner Henze's "Wundertheater" of 1964, based on an Intermezzo by Miguel de Cervantes, and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "verismo" opera "Pagliacci" of 1892 pose the question of performance and reality in the theatre in different ways.