 8Palace Cinemas AUPARK - May 26, 2010 at 8pm, Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold Live(Der Ring des Nibelungen, New production of the Teatro alla Scala
On the bottom of the Rhine, during the golden age of German pagan antiquity. Then underground, in the kingdom of the Nibelungs. Last of all, up in the palace of Valhalla, Olympus of the Germanic gods, bathed in all the colours of the rainbow.
Prologue in a single act of the Tetralogy ("The Ring of the Nibelung "), Das Rheingold reveals the original sin of power, built upon disloyalty and deceit and on foregoing love. This is the starting point for entering a labyrinth of Wagnerian symbolism. As Nietzsche once wrote: "An enormous system of thought, without the conceptual form of thought."
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 Palace Cinemas AUPARK - May 29, 2010 at 8 pm, Simon Boccanegra, an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi, Live from Teatro La Scala.
Cast: Plácido Domingo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Adriana Damato
Synopsis
Simon Boccanegra is a story about politics and love – a deadly combination. Simon Boccanegra is the Doge of Genoa, but twenty-five years earlier he fathered a child with Marie, the daughter of his then-political rival Fiesco. Marie died while still young, and their daughter disappeared. Ever since Boccanegra came to power, Fiesco has lived under an assumed name out in the country with his adopted daughter Amelia. Amelia is actually Boccanegra’s daughter, and thus Fiesco’s granddaughter, but at first neither man knows it. Fiesco attempts to give her in marriage to man she doesn’t love, but once Boccanegra find out her true identity, he lobbies to have her wed to her true love, Gabriele, even though Gabriele has been secretly plotting against the Doge with the exiled Fiesco. Gabriele and Fiesco still do not know Amelia’s true identity, so they continue with their plans to kill the Doge. Boccanegra is tricked into drinking poison by one of Fiesco’s friends, but shortly before he dies, Amelia’s identity is revealed to Gabriele, who begs the Doge for forgiveness. The benevolent Boccanegra forgives him and blesses the marriage of Gabriele and Amelia. Soon, Fiesco also finds out Amelia’s lineage, and when the Doge dies, everyone – even his former rivals – mourn the passing of the great man
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