Film

Rossini: La gazza ladra

2022 · 3h 18m · Music

Musiktheater an der Wien 2022

A feathered thief, a servant wrongly sentenced to death and a corrupt, power-hungry politician: those are the protagonists of Rossini’s semi-serious opera whose overture, with its drum rolls and oboe solo, is one of the best-known pieces in the history of music. La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is set in a time of great social upheaval. When Ninetta is accused of stealing a silver spoon, a series of unfortunate events begins that initially makes the happy ending expected from an opera semiseria seem highly unlikely. What sort of world is it where a person can be executed for the alleged theft of a spoon? Tobias Kratzer, successful as a director throughout Europe, now debuts in Vienna with Rossini’s opera that received its first performance in 1817 and traces the uncertainty felt by people in a politically and socially destabilised world.

Nino Machaidze

Ninetta

Fabio Maria Capitanucci

Fabrizio Vingradito

Marina De Liso

Lucia

Maxim Mironov

Gianetto

Paolo Bordogna

Fernando

Antonino Fogliani

Conductor

• Tobias KratzerDirector
• Gioachino RossiniWriter

Release date

November 18, 2022

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3h 18m

Genres

Music