Musical Director: GMD Matthias Foremny
Stage Director: Peter Lotschak
Sets: Lutz Kreisel
Costumes: Giselher Pilz
Chorus Master: Ulrich Barthel

Opening: June 25, 2010, Alter Garten

Top-rate stagings, international soloists, a huge chorus and Schwerin’s traditional Mecklenburgisches Staatsorchester are the outstanding features of the SCHLOSSFESTSPIELE SCHWERIN that the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater has held since 1993 at an atmospheric open square in front of the city’s romantic castle.

In 2010 the SCHLOSSFESTSPIELE SCHWERIN will present one of Verdi’s most melodic operas: “The Force of Destiny (La forza del destino)”. This work is rich in lovely and colourful chorus scenes which have contributed to the opera’s past successes. The story's many fateful events that happen simply by chance fascinated and inspired Verdi, and the „fate“-motive he composed for it appears in the overture and throughout the opera’s run of events.

Many unlucky happenings occur by chance in this opera than one might not expect in everyday life. In the very first scene a pistol drops to the ground as a gesture of peaceful reconciliation. It goes off and kills the father of the hero’s beloved Leonora, forcing the lovers Alvaro and Leonora to flee. They lose track of each other in the exciting course of the plot and don’t meet until years later. And fate continues to set the switches that determine where the plot runs.



Further performances: Thursdays through Sundays at 9:00 p.m. June 26 through August 1, 2010

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E-Mail: kasse@theater-schwerin.de

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