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La forza del destino

Giuseppe Verdi

Opera

Opera

La forza del destino

Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto after Duque de Rivas’ drama Don Álvaro o La fuerza del sino by Francesco Maria Piave (1862), adapted by Antonio Ghislanzoni (1869).

Opera in four acts Second version adapted 1869

In Italian with English and German surtitles.

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La forza del destino – what is the meaning of the destiny that Verdi uses so forcefully for the title of this family tale of various outlaws in his opera of 1862, revised in 1869? Who forces Leonora, and Alvaro as the murderer of her father, to enter the hermitage of a monastery – and confronts them there, in a mighty showdown, with the brother who is full of hatred and cannot forgive? Is it a declaration of war against God's promise of redemption? The heavenly cantilena of a solo violin rises at the end of the opera – in the face of the death of the hero's lover and brother. Those who withdraw into the consoling twilight of a divine peace here are only trying to deny one thing: the force of destiny.

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