Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
German first performance:
5th November 1999    Hebbel-Theater

Cenci

By Giorgio Battistelli (*1953)
Opera after Antonin Artaud
for four Actors and 16 Musicians
Text by Giorgio Battistelli and Nick Ward
German translation by Max Nyffeler

First performance: London, 1997

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Cornelia Schmaus as Lucrezia Cenci - Photo: © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Musical Director
Stage Director
Set Design
Sound Directing
Costume Design

Cenci
Lucrezia
Beatrice
Orsino		 Rüdiger Bohn
Sabrina Hölzer
Reinhild Blaschke
Mark Polscher
Regina Schill

Manfred Andræ
Cornelia Schmaus
Carmen Dalfogo
Marcus Kaloff

Orchestra of Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
(16 musicians)

 
Coproduction with the Hebbel-Theater – in the program of the Berliner Festwochen 1999 - with support from the Culture Foundation of the Deutschen Bank and the the Artist-in-Residence-Programme of the DAAD

An authentic story of the Renaissance: Wife and daughter of the Roman Count Cenci take bloody revenge for his having raped his daughter and his numerous other crimes. A subject already covered by Antonin Artaud and his Theater of Cruelty. Inspired by Artaud, Battistelli composed his opera.

Cenci’s statement "I am a force of nature" leads to one of the most relevant questions of the history of mankind: The question of the nature of evil.

 

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