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LOCATION:Staatsoper Unter den Linden\, Berlin
SUMMARY:La Vestale
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DESCRIPTION:Julia is ready to break the law imposed upon her and allows her
  beloved Licinius to come to the place where she is supposed to guard a fi
 re by night. The vestal\, a priestess of the goddess Vesta\, thus defies t
 he “holy law” and the High Priest as its guardian. But she follows her
  love and thus human nature. For the chief vestal\, however\, love is a 
 “barbarian monster” and enemy of the goddess Vesta\, whose eternally b
 urning flame is to be protected by the chaste vestals.\n\nLa Vestale\, whi
 ch premiered in Napoleonic Paris in 1807\, was Gaspare Spontini’s greate
 st success to date. As Prussia’s general music director\, Spontini condu
 cted the Berlin Royal Opera from 1820 to 1841. With its large-scale scenes
 \, La Vestale became one of the most successful operas of the nineteenth c
 entury. The complex use of the chorus\, instrumental effects\, and ballet 
 scenes had an influence on composers such as Richard Wagner\, and Hector B
 erlioz. In this production\, director Lydia Steier\, who recently brought 
 Les Contes d’Hoffmann to the stage will trace out the brutal mechanisms 
 of an autocratic regime.
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