Die Wüste Insel

In the organizer's words:

CHAMBER OPERA BY JOSEPH HAYDN

In Joseph Haydn's Die Wüste Insel, a wedding couple and the bride's sister are caught in a hurricane and find themselves on a desert island. In the chamber opera, a soprano, a mezzo, a tenor and a bass-baritone are accompanied by a chamber ensemble of soloists. Highly virtuosic scenes alternate with dramatic and sensually sensitive passages. The intimate ambience of the Silbersaal allows the audience to experience the colorful opera spectacle up close.

NATURE, CULTURE AND EACH OTHER

On their honeymoon, a couple and the bride's little sister are swept away to a desert island by a hurricane. The man is abducted by pirates and sold into slavery on his very first voyage of exploration. His wife, however, believes that he has abandoned her. Exactly twelve years later to the day, the man finally finds the island again with a friend from their shared captivity...

Haydn's opera shows four people in an extreme situation. It is about nature, culture and the togetherness in which we search for the meaning of life.

ARRANGED FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Haydn was proud of this amazing work throughout his life, which he composed in 1779 to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio for the opera theater at Esterházy Palace. One outstanding feature is its through-composition: the recitatives are not accompanied by the harpsichord as usual, but by an expressive orchestra. Aris Alexander Blettenberg wrote an arrangement for chamber ensemble especially for this production. Dominik Wilgenbus produced a new translation from Italian into German.

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