Director: Andreas Homoki
Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini
Set Design: Paul Zoller
Costume Designer: Gideon Davey
Light: Franck Evin

Il Conte di Walter Adam Palka
Rodolfo Giorgio Berrugi
Miller George Gagnidze
Luisa Selene Zanetti
Wurm Brindley Sherratt
Federica Kristina Stanek
Laura Aebh Kelly
Un Contadino Mziwamadoda Sipho Nodlayiya

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

“Luisa Miller” is Giuseppe Verdi’s third musical setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a magnificent drama, full of passion and theatrically very effective,” the composer wrote to the librettist Salvadore Cammarano about “Intrigue and Love”. In order to meet the expectations of the censors and the audience, Verdi first had to reduce the piece to a libretto suitable for opera, which shifted the focus from Schiller’s political material to the family drama. In his opera, which premiered in Naples in 1849, Verdi achieved outstanding character studies of all the protagonists. In this work he laid the foundation for many “Verdi types” of later years, such as Iago, Giorgio Germont, Aida and Desdemona. “Luisa Miller” was seen in 1981 as the Hamburg premiere in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera. The musical direction was by Giuseppe Sinopoli, and the direction and set design was by Luciano Damiani.

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