OPERABRUNCH ERNANI
Some works require just that little bit more context, especially when they are rarely on the bill. That is why we have the Operabrunch formula, an informative moment in a relaxed atmosphere which zooms in on special titles from our programme.
After his revolutionary operas Nabucco and I Lombardi, Giuseppe Verdi was looking for a new kind of musical theatre with psychological depth. He found a fellow traveller in the French author Victor Hugo and the elaborate intrigue of his novel Hernani. Musicologist Annelies Andries (Utrecht University), a specialist in 19th-century French and Italian opera and author of a new Operatheek volume on Ernani, will guide you through this rarely performed musical drama.