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SEPTEMBERFEST

To kick off the season, the newly founded Septemberfest shows that excellence and openness need not be opposites. The highest artistic quality should be accessible to and experienced by the entire breadth of the population. This vision is one of the most important goals of Serge Dorny. For the opening of the September Festival, Jonas Kaufmann will sing live in Ansbach in the Opera for All concert of the Bavarian State Orchestra. For ten days, we then celebrate the opening of the season with a varied program full of surprises. Operas by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and the ballet productions Liaison and Paradigma with different choreographies will be performed in the Prinzregententheater, the Nationaltheater and the Cuvilliés-Theater. A chamber concert by the Orchestra Academy and a song recital with Christian Gerhaher complete the musical program.

Let us celebrate together! As part of the September Festival, you have the opportunity to purchase tickets for all performances on September 18 and 19 at the standard price of €25 or €15 (tickets in the last three seating categories €8) on all seats. Tickets are available from Sat, 24.07.21 by phone and online sales

Paris, beginning of the 20^th century. A barge on the Seine. Hard work with little reward for the day-labourers and stevedores, even the padrone. The people find their humble joy in the small things: a song, a glass of wine, something they may have found, perhaps even a little togetherness. Michele, the owner of the barge, and his young wife Giorgietta once believed that happiness was within their grasp – love, marriage, a child. The child has, however, passed away, and his death has alienated them from one another. Two of Michele’s stevedores, known as ‘Mole’ and ‘Tench’, are experiencing different degrees of luck in their lives. Mole’s wife, called ‘The Rummager’, collects odds and ends, and dreams of spending her twilight years with her husband and cat in a small cottage. Tench drowns his sorrows in alcohol while his wife plays away. A third stevedore, Luigi, blames the exploitative conditions for the misery of the working class. Giorgetta seeks a way out of her haunting isolation and believes she can find this in Luigi, who hails from the same Parisian quarter as she does. She starts an affair with him, an affair in which every tender touch is overshadowed by the fear of being discovered. Both suspect that a future together can only be a dream. Deceiving her husband awakens within Giorgetta an old feeling of solidarity with him. But it is all too late for reconciliation. Michele’s suspicions are confirmed, and the affair reaches a fatal end. Underneath Michele’s cloak, once a sign of safety for Giorgetta, a crime is concealed.