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Piramo e Tisbe

VenueTheater an der Wien
CalendarThu 22 Apr 2027
Synopsis/Details

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe was made famous as a parody: In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream it is performed at a wedding by a group of tradesmen (the mechanicals). Owing to their lack of talent as actors and their ill-advised ideas for staging the work, the tragic plot becomes a comedy. This was not at all the way that Johann Adolph Hasse wanted to go, and he took the ill-fated love of the young Babylonian couple that dies together completely seriously. In his version, even the third person in the story, Thisbe’s tyrannical father, dies at the end. In Piramo e Tisbe, Hasse chose to largely dispense with the Baroque form of the da-capo aria, instead developing a kind of through-composed musical drama. The work was first given in 1768 in a palace outside Vienna (it is not yet known which one), and was performed two years later in Laxenburg, south of the city, before sinking into obscurity for 250 years. Now it returns to the Danube.

Intermezzo Tragico In Two Acts

Libretto By Marco Coltellini

Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles

Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

Cast

Conductor:

Bernhard Forck

Piramo:

Anett Fritsch

Tisbe:

Roberta Mameli

Il Padre:

Jeremy Ovenden

 

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Venue
Theater an der Wien

About the Theater an der Wien
 

The New Opera House is not just any theatre, but the one that Emanuel Schikaneder, the all-round genius, actor, impresario with a flair for organization but above all librettist of The Magic Flute, had built in 1801 in Vienna in keeping with the spirit of Mozart.

To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth the Theater an der Wien presents itself as a new opera house from January 2006. As a “season” opera house with productions all the year round the Theater an der Wien carves a new and independent niche in the realm of high-quality culture in Vienna. For twelve months of the year, with one premiere every month, opera will be performed under the “stagione”, or season, system: that means the cast remains unchanged from the first performance to the last one, which guarantees that the very highest international standards are maintained.

The theatre’s modern, accessible approach to music theatre as demonstrated by the works performed, the overall artistic concept Bespielung and the artistes is further underlined by the building itself, its architecture and the vibrancy of its location. The surroundings and materials, the intimate atmosphere and perfect acoustics in the historical theatre prepare the senses to experience beauty. The Theater an der Wien deliberately enters into a symbiotic relationship with its lively surroundings on the Naschmarkt street market and the young cultural scene centred in the Schleifmühl quarter.
 

How to get there


With public transport:
 

We can be reached by public transport: 

U1, U2 und U4 Station Karlsplatz, Exit Secession
Bus 59A Station Bärenmühldurchgang
Bus 57A Station Laimgrubengasse, pedestrians via Laimgrubengasse to Linke Wienzeile

KAMMEROPER:
Fleischmarkt 24, 1010 Wien


We can be reached by public transport:
U1, U4: Station Schwedenplatz
Tram Linie D (bei Ablenukung über Kai), 1, 2: Station Schwedenplatz
Bus 3A (on workdays)

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