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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Violanta
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DESCRIPTION:With VIOLANTA\, Korngold captured the spirit of fin de siècle 
 Vienna\, oscillating between the Jugendstil and psychoanalysis\, between F
 reud\, Klimt and Schnitzler\, and proved that he – at just 18 years old 
 – had a diverse orchestral palette of timbres at his disposal and could 
 write expressive and catchy melodies... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles\; 
 Director: David Hermann\; with Ólafur Sigurdarson\, Laura Wilde\, Mihails
  Culpajevs and others\nWith the world premiere of his one-act opera\, VIOL
 ANTA\, the 18-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold shifted overnight from chil
 d prodigy to one of the leading opera composers of his generation. For VIO
 LANTA not only heralded the arrival of a young maestro who was as independ
 ent as he was variegated in his musical palette\, who had an unerring feel
  for how to render his vision on stage\, and who could write melodies that
  were both expressive and catchy to boot\; the 75-minute work to a librett
 o by Hans Müller\, later to be known for co-writing THE WHITE HORSE INN\,
  also served notice that Korngold had caught a contemporary Viennese mood 
 that encapsulated Art Nouveau\, psychoanalysis and an end-of-days atmosphe
 re\, a quintessence framed by Freud\, Klimt and Schnitzler – all mirrore
 d perfectly in the storyline: Violanta\, the wife of Venice’s governor\,
  plots during Carnival to avenge\, through assassination\, her sister\, wh
 o committed suicide after being seduced by Prince Alfonso. When the moment
  comes\, however\, she acknowledges her true motive: to snuff out her own 
 desire to abandon herself to passion. She sacrifices herself to free herse
 lf from “lust and guilt”.\n\nAt the Deutsche Oper Berlin\, which hoste
 d a much-discussed revival of THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE (likewise to a text b
 y Hans Müller)\, this new production of VIOLANTA is the result of a colla
 boration between General Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and the direc
 tor David Hermann. The pair have already worked on two other new productio
 ns: THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR and FIDELIO.\n\nSpotlightLaura Wilde’s first c
 ontact with the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold coincided with the start 
 of her career. In 2018 she got the chance to sing the main role in THE RIN
 G OF POLYKRATES at the Dallas Opera\, the very work that shared a world-pr
 emiere tandem with VIOLANTA in 1916. Since then the young soprano from Sou
 th Dakota has come on in leaps and bounds\, appearing at venues such as th
 e Metropolitan Opera\, the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the English Nationa
 l Opera. With a repertoire ranging from Mozart to Britten\, she has tilted
  towards German works\, taking roles that include Wagner’s Sieglinde and
  Strauss’s Salome. Now she takes on Violanta\, which may well make her t
 he first singer to have featured in both of Korngold’s debut works as a 
 composer of opera.
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