Premiere: Luisa Miller

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Opera by Giuseppe Verdi / libretto by Salvadore Cammarano / critical edition by Jeffrey Kallberg / in Italian with German surtitles

Luisa and Rodolfo don't stand a chance. Their love is under observation and suspicion from the very beginning. She is the daughter of a simple soldier, he is the son of an influential man. What binds them together threatens an order that values feelings according to social origin and only allows closeness if it can be controlled. Verdi's music drives this clash relentlessly forward and condenses Schiller's Kabale und Liebe into a drama with no way out. Luisa Miller tells of a love that is destroyed because it refuses to submit - and of a power that only triumphs when all is lost.