Theatre, theatre everywhere! During rehearsals for the highly tragic period piece ‘Romulus and Ersilia’, everything somehow goes wrong: the prima donna doesn't feel well, the trouser role doesn't like itself and the tenor finally wants to play first violin.
And to make matters worse, Mamma Agata, the second soprano's weird helicopter mother, bursts in...

Prima la Mamma!

Theater Duisburg

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw longing for freedom when Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and poisons her father-in-law's food. But the increasing radicalism of her desire for self-determination will claim further victims ...

Maria Polańska

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Nov 30, 2024 - Jan 12, 2025

Prima la Mamma! · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Feb 17 - May 3, 2025

Lady Macbeth von Mzensk · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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Dorothea in Prima la Mamma! by Donizetti

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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