Calendar

May

MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
01 02
StaatenHaus Saal 1 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
 03
StaatenHaus Saal 3 / 11:30 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
PÜNKTCHEN UND ANTON
 04
Stadtbibliothek Köln am Neumarkt / 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Spurensuche Oper - Giuseppe Verdi "Ein Maskenball"
StaatenHaus Maskenstatt / 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Whoosh
StaatenHaus Saal 3 / 11:30 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
PÜNKTCHEN UND ANTON
StaatenHaus Saal 3 / 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Plausch am Bühnenrand
StaatenHaus Saal 1 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
 05
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 6:00 p.m. - 9:10 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
06 07
StaatenHaus Saal 3 / 11:30 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
PÜNKTCHEN UND ANTON
 08
StaatenHaus Saal 3 / 11:30 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
PÜNKTCHEN UND ANTON
 09
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 6:00 p.m. - 9:10 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 10
StaatenHaus Saal 1 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
 11 12
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 6:00 p.m. - 9:10 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
13 14 15
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:40 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 16
StaatenHaus Saal 1 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue / Minus 16 / Bedtime Story
 17
StaatenHaus Saal 1 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue / Minus 16 / Bedtime Story
 18
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:40 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 19
20
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 4:00 p.m. - 7:10 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 21 22
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:40 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 23 24
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:40 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 25 26
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 4:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
27 28
Foyer Depot / 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Fortbildungsangebot Neuland: "Easy Peasy"
 29
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 7:30 p.m. - 10:40 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 30
StaatenHaus Saal 2 / 6:00 p.m. - 9:10 p.m.
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
 31
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Giuseppe Verdi

Messa da Requiem

02
Sun /
jun 24
Kölner Philharmonie / 11:00 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. / Vorstellung

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SYNOPSIS

Giuseppe Verdi's artistic field of activity was almost exclusively opera. Only a few of his works leave the operatic stage, such as the Requiem, which is one of his most impressive compositions. The requiem mass was composed in 1874, a few years after ‘Aida’, as a requiem for the poet Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi greatly admired. The mass soon detached itself from Manzoni's name, just as the performance detached itself from the sacred setting. Significantly, the second performance of the Requiem took place at La Scala in Milan, where Verdi celebrated so many successes with his operas. The Requiem with its large choir and four vocal soloists thus joins the impressive series of Verdi operas and unfolds a theatre of affects and emotions that is in no way inferior to the stage works. On the contrary: the Requiem rises above Verdi's immense operatic oeuvre and reveals a drama in the ‘Dies irae’ that is incomparable to anything else in Verdi's oeuvre. One of the first German performances of Verdi's Requiem took place in Cologne in December 1875. A co-production of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and Cologne Opera.

CAST AND CREATIVES

Musikalische Leitung Michele Mariotti /

Chorleitung Chor Oper Köln
Rustam Samedov
Chorleitung WDR Rundfunkchor
Michael Alber
Sopran
Saioa Hernández
Alt
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Tenor
Liparit Avetisyan
Bass
Giorgi Manoshvili
Chor
Chor der Oper Köln
WDR Rundfunkchor
Orchester
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

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