La finta giardiniera - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Estates theatre

Premiere: 25th October 2008

Dramaturgical adaptation: Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Musical arrangement of the recitatives: Zdeněk Klauda
Conductor: Tomáš Netopil
Director: Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Stage design and costumes: Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Dramaturgy: Ondřej Hučín

Podesta: Jeffrey Francis
Sandrina: Simona Houda-Šaturová
Belfiore: Andrew Staples
Arminda: Marie Fajtová
Ramiro: Annekathrin Laabs
Serpetta: Kateřina Kněžíková
Nardo: Adam Plachetka
Orchestra of the National Theatre Opera. Cemballo: Zdeněk Klauda.

Although Mozart wrote his opera about “a phoney gardener” at the age of nineteen, it already clearly shows his dramatic genius. He does not see the world in black and white and schematically but within a gamut of emotions, human types and situations, with both deep immersion and a bird’s-eye view. It is a Rococo plaything and, at the same time, a timeless statement about the human and love. Don Anchise loves Sandrina, yet she loves Count Belfiore, who is to marry Arminda, who in turn loves Don Ramiro. And as if this wasn’t enough, the servant girl Serpetta, who is yearned for by the servant Nardo, loves Don Anchise... In this typically Rococo farce, Mozart with extreme soulfulness presents a whole range of possible and impossible variants of amorous situations, cute, grotesque, and also situations in which sanity and even life itself are at stake. La finta giardiniera will be staged at the National Theatre for the very first time in its history in its, for a long time unknown, original Italian version. Our invitation to stage this Mozart opera has been kindly accepted by the creative duo Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, well-known to and esteemed by Czech audiences, as well as the outstanding young conductor Tomáš Netopil.
Orchestra of the National Theatre Opera. Cemballo: Zdeněk Klauda.

Duration of the performance: 3 hours and 40 minutes

The opera is staged in the Italian original version and Czech and English surtitles are used in the performance