Opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Cosi fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti
When Drottningholm Theatre is filled with life, when the scene is populated by characters who by their body language and their costumes complement the movement and colors in the decor, as the tones vibrate and resonate in the floors and walls and the intricate machinery of performing their magic tricks - then we get a knowledge of 1700 century like no other theater in the world can give us. For music lovers worldwide will subside name Drottningholm Court Theatre with the same magic that Stradivarius!
Inspired by acting and stagin tehniques contemporary with the opera, director Sigrid T'Hofft will create a thorougly believable 18th century world in a stylish historically-informed production. You wll get a good laugh and a lesson in how to love!
ossi La Scuola degli Amanti
Opera - Drammen giocoso - in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Subtitled in Swedish. Playtime scrutineering. 2 hours 45 minutes including intermission.
Mozart's brilliant music is matched by his comic libretto of this time-to-life theatrical portrayal. A lively lesson in love in a convincing 1700s world!
Conductor - Mark Tatlow
Directed - Sigrid T'Hooft
Art Director - Stephan Dietrich
Starring:
Fiordiligi - Sara Widén
Dorabella - Katja Zhylevich
Guglielmo - Luthando Qave
Ferrando - Joel Annmo
Despina - Frida Jansson / Vivianne Holmes
Don Alfonso - Staffan Liljas
Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte
In Italian. Running time 3 hours 5 minutes incl. one interval.
"The year is 1787 and the world stands on the brink of revolutionary change. For the aging aristocrat Don Giovanni seems increasingly alien environment. Suddenly, the women started to fuss, the waiter wants a raise and the mob takes tons. We meet Don Giovanni during his last days of life, when everything goes askew. Long live freedom!, he sings while he wields the champagne. Freedom for whom? "
Johanna Garpe, director
Conductor - Mark Tatlow
Director - Johanna Garpe
Costumes - Karin Erskine
Lighting designer - Torsten Dahn
The cast:
Don Giovanni - Carl Johan Loa Falkman
Il Commendatore - Håvard Stensvold
Donna Anna - Marika Schönberg
Don Ottavio - Magnus Staveland
Donna Elvira - Miriam Treichl
Leporello - Lars Arvidson
Zerlina - Susanna Stern
Masetto - Håvard Stensvold
The Drottningholm Theatre Choir
The Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra
A new generation of Swedish opera singers
face Mozart in Le nozze di Figaro. Zoroastre –that grandiose
French Baroque opera - does a lap of honour and will be televised.
The Drottningholm Ballets -50th contemporary anniversary-
to music by Purcell and Kraus, 250 years.
Drottningholms Slottsteater
was built to the design of the theatre architect, Carl
Fredrik Adelcrantz, at the request of Queen Lovisa Ulrika.
The building was completed in 1766 and rests on the remains
of an earlier theatre destroyed by fire in 1762.
Drottningholms Slottsteater
is built in simple materials. The decorations of the auditorium
have been carried out as a theatrical game with stucco, papier
mâché and paintings. The rooms surrounding the
stage and auditorium acted during the 18th century as dwellings
for the staff and as public rooms. In 1791 certain rearrangements
of the royal apartments were made and a foyer, the Déjeuner
Salon, was built to the design of L. J. Desprez.
The stage measures 20 metres
from the footlights to the back and is still one of the
deepest in Sweden. The stage machinery, constructed by
the Italian mechanic D. Stopani, allows of quick changes
of scenery with the curtain up. In addition, the stage
has moving waves, trapdoors, cloud cars, lighting machinery
and wind and thunder apparatus.
After Gustaf III's death in 1792 Swedish
theatrical life stagnated. Drottningholms Slottsteater
was more or less forgotten. At the beginning of the 1920's
the court theatre was "rediscovered" by the literary
and theatre historian Agne Beijer. Under his guidance the
theatre was restored to its original shape. The stage machinery
was fitted with new ropes and the wax candles were replaced
by electric lamps. The unique collection of original scenery
(about 15 complete sets and 20 incomplete) has nowadays been
copied.
On 19th August 1922
the curtain rose again at Drottningholms Slottsteater.
The performances, few at first, were gradually increased,
and the theatre aquired a growing international reputation
as a festival theatre, with works by Haydn, Handel,
Gluck and Mozart. There have been innumerable performances
by artists and companies from abroad. Drottningholm
ballets soon became a criterion for reconstructed
ballets from the 18th century. Music played on authentic
instruments has been one of the theatre's aims.
Drottningholms Slottsteater
is administrated by Stiftelsen Drottningholms teatermusem.
Performances are financed with contributions from the Swedish
State and sponsors and also annually recieve financial support
from Besides the theatre's own productions the Royal Opera,
Stockholm, gives guest perfromances each year.
In 1991 the World Heritage
Committee of UNESCO designated the theatre, together with
Drottningholm Palace, the Chinese Pavilion and the surrounding
park, as beeing of international cultural heritage significance
and listed on the UNESCO's list of world heritage.
