LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES
Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier.
recommended for 16 years and older
Opera in five acts - 1855
In French with English and German surtitles.
LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier.
In French with English and German surtitles.
What happens to love when it is besieged on both sides – by politics on the one side and family loyalties on the other? And what if both these forces are fatefully and inextricably linked? In his grand opéra Les Vêpres siciliennes Giuseppe Verdi takes a no-holds-barred look at these questions, presenting the two lovers Hélène and Henri. Even as their wedding bells are still pealing, they fall victim to a massacre resulting from the irreconcilable enmity between Sicilians and their French occupiers. Love demonstrates no utopian powers.
And yet, Verdi’s enthralling composition draws its listeners in and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats.
Les Vêpres siciliennes (Programm)
Les vêpres siciliennes (Plakat)