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Der Kaiser von Atlantis

by Viktor Ullmann

Kaiser Overall: an ironic anglicization of the German Über Alles, an appropriate name to ridicule a solitary emperor, locked up in his cold palace, speaking only with a Loudspeaker. A far too easy identification with Adolf Hitler prevented the performance of the opera in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1944; later on both the author Viktor Ullman and the librettist Peter Kien died in Auschwitz. A story that is made of both satire and hope, with Death that refuses to submit itself to this never-ending war by not taking any more lives, people are then able to rediscover love: Kaiser Overall, furious, agrees then to die first in order to bring back Death on earth.

In occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day

Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung (The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of death)
Opera in one act
Music of Viktor Ullmann
Libretto by Franz Peter Kien

Artists

Conductor
Roberto Misto

Director
Pier Paolo Pacini

Actor
Roberto Gioffrè

Orchestra
Clarinet
Giovanni Piqué
Giovanni Riccucci

Flute
Gregorio Tuninetti

Oboe
Marco Salvatori

Banjo/guitar
Luigi Attademo

Trumpet
Claudio Quintavalla

Cymbal/harmonium
Giulia Nuti

Piano/harmonium
Andrea Severi

Percussions
Gregory Lecoeur

Violin
Yehezkel Yerushalmi
Gianrico Righele

Viola
Igor Polesitzky

Violoncello
Patrizio Serino

Contrabbass
Marco Martelli
Kaiser Overall
Federico Longhi

Der Trommler (Drummer girl)
Sara Palana

Harlekin (Pierrot)
Francesco Paccorini

Der Tod (the Death)
Giuliano Pelizon

Der Lautsprecher (the Loudspeaker)
Diego Barretta

Ein Soldat (a Soldier)
Carlo Messeri

Bubikopf (a young women)
Sarina Rausa
Dates

Mon 26 January, ore 20:30

Prices
Free entry
Where

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Piazzale Vittorio Gui, 1
50144 Firenze

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