From 2. February 2025

Die Macht des Schicksals (La forza del destino)

The Power of Fate

Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in vier Akten
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Coproduction with the Welsh National Opera

–In Italian with German and English surtitles–

Conductor: Will Humburg | Director: Sir David Pountney

from age 14
Premiere 02.02.
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The main characters in Verdi’s reputed »accursed« opera are caught in a whirl of war and destruction. Don Alvaro in the process of eloping with Leonora is discovered by her father and Alvaro accidentally kills him. Before dying the father puts a curse on Leonora. Leonora’s brother Don Carlo resolves to pursue the two lovers and exact vengeance for his father’s murder. The characters over and over again try to evade their past, but it’s no use: the inexorable “forza del destino” (the power of fate) catches up with them.

After the relative cold reception of its premiere in 1862, Verdi immediately set about revising his opera, which, in its new version, in 1869, was triumphant at La Scala.  In this version, Verdi added the dramaturgically effective overture in which he from the start introduces the »fate« motif that later recurs in Leonora’s famous fourth act prayer/aria,»pace, pace mio dio« (Lord grant me peace).

With LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Sir David Pountney (I VESPRI SICILIANI, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA) concludes hjs Verdi trilogy for the Theater Bonn’s stage. In his staging of FORZA »fate« is concretely represented: It is a wheel of fortune set in motion by Preziosilla. Can fate be humane and compassionate or is it like a cold-blooded machine that can’t be stopped?

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Cast

Donna Leonora  Yannick-Muriel Noah
Don Carlo di Vargas  Franco Vassallo
Don Alvaro  George Oniani
Pater Guardiano / Marchese di Calatrava  Pavel Kudinov
Fra Melitone  Enrico Marabelli
Preziosilla / Curra  Dshamilja Kaiser
MastroTrabuco  Tae Hwan Yun (Termine)
Ralf Rachbauer (Termine)
Ein Alkade  Chorsolo
Ein Chirurg  Christopher Jähnig (Termine)
NN (Termine)
Statisterie  Statisterie des Theater Bonn
Musikalische Leitung  Will Humburg
Licht  Fabrice Kebour
Choreinstudierung  André Kellinghaus
Regieassistenz und Abendspielleitung  Alma Gentile
Studienleitung  Igor Horvat
Korrepetition  Igor Horvat
Elia Tagliavia
Miho Mach
Bühnenbildassistenz  Ansgar Baradoy
Kostümassistenz  Nury Stefanie Willig
Alissa Schaaf
Inspizienz  Kerstin Mertl
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