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LA STRANIERA, Theater an der Wien, 24 January 2015 - 19:00

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  • Category: Operas
  • Event: LA STRANIERA
  • Date/Time: 24 January 2015 - 19:00
  • Venue: Theater an der Wien
  • Address: Linke Wienzeile 6, 1060 Wien/Vienna (Map)
  • Other Dates: Show alternatives

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An enthusiastic Vincenzo Bellini wrote of Victor d’Arlincourt’s successful novel L’etrangère: “It is a book full of exciting moments, and all are new and marvellous.” In the book he found material replete with extreme characters in situations of exceptional emotion which he could use to develop his ideas of the romantic opera. In La straniera he produced his most radical score. Hector Berlioz, not one who found much to admire in Italian opera, was impressed by this music, feeling that “deep passions, painful emotion” and a “fearful cry of insane love” had been incorporated in the composition.

Count Arturo is engaged to Isoletta, but has fallen in love with a mysterious stranger who lives alone in the woods. The villagers think she is a witch. Arturo wants to run away with her, but the stranger refuses. Arturo’s friend Baron Valdeburgo tries to persuade him to go back to Isoletta. To elicit Valdeburgo’s sympathy for his plight, Arturo takes him to the stranger. To Arturo’s astonishment, the stranger and Valdeburgo greet one another with a tender embrace. The jealous Arturo immediately fights a duel with his friend, and Valdeburgo falls into the lake. The stranger’s cry of “You have killed my brother!” explains the affectionate greeting. Arturo plunges into the lake, leaving the despairing stranger alone with the bloodstained rapier. This is how the villagers find her, and they accuse her of murdering the two men. At the trial, both men reappear, still alive, thus proving the stranger’s innocence. Arturo still refuses to give up his passion for her. On the day of his wedding to Isoletta he runs away from the altar. When it emerges that the stranger is in fact the wife of the King of France and was forced to live in exile, Arturo stabs himself.

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