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Filidei: ACCABADORA (ÖEA)

Conductor: Lucie Leguay

Stage director, set designer: Valentina Carrasco
Set designer: Mariangela Mazzeo
Costume designer: Mauro Tinti
Light designer: Antonio Castro

Tzia Bonaria Urrai (The Accabadora): Noa Frenkel
Maria: Rachel Masclet
Nicola Bastiu: Lodovico Ravizza
Andria Bastiu: Hugo Brady
Maestra Luciana/Giannina Bastiu/Una Voce: Victoire Bunel
Santino Littorra/Antonio Vargiu/Dr. Mastinu: Francesco Leone

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

Sardinia in the 1950s: a village still steeped in archaic traditions. Maria is the youngest child of a large family, and as custom dictates, she is taken in by the childless woman Tzia Bonaria. The latter is both feared and respected as an “Accabadora” – working as a seamstress by day, but by night as a woman who ends the suffering of the dying – severing, as it were, the thread of their life.

Will Maria be able to accept the role of daughter to this “last mother”? Francesco Filidei’s new opera was inspired by the haunting novel penned by Michela Murgia. Valentina Carrasco’s production brings a world to life in which age-old rituals, landscapes and human destinies are inextricably intertwined. The work’s world premiere in Aix-en-Provence was jointly produced by the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, which is hosting its first performance in Austria.

Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (world premiere: July 4, 2026) Co-production with the Opéra National de Lyon, the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the Opéra de Dijon, and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Austrian premiere

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Team

Lucie Leguay Conductor
Valentina Carrasco Stage director, set designer
Mariangela Mazzeo Set designer
Mauro Tinti Costume designer
Antonio Castro Light designer
Noa Frenkel Tzia Bonaria Urrai (The Accabadora)
Rachel Masclet Maria
Lodovico Ravizza Nicola Bastiu

Lodovico Filippo Ravizza wurde 1995 in Mailand geboren und studierte bei Giuseppe Nicodemo sowie am Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Mailand. 2022 war der Bariton Preisträger des Wettbewerbs AsLiCo (Associazione Lirica e Concertistica) in der Kategorie Aufstrebende Stimmen. Engagements führten ihn an renommierte Häuser und Festivals, u. a. zum Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, an das Teatro alla Scala in Mailand, das Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venedig, das Teatro Regio di Parma und zum Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo. Kürzlich stand er in der Semperoper Dresden als Ford (Falstaff) auf der Bühne. Zu seinen Partien zählen u. a. Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Moralès (Carmen), Ping (Turandot) und Giorgio Germont (La traviata). Er arbeitete mit Dirigenten wie Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Frizza, Zubin Mehta und Nicola Luisotti zusammen. Als Enrico Ashton gibt er sein Rollendebüt bei den Tiroler Festspielen Erl.

 

Hugo Brady Andria Bastiu
Victoire Bunel Maestra Luciana/Giannina Bastiu/Una Voce
Francesco Leone Santino Littorra/Antonio Vargiu/Dr. Mastinu
Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

The music springs from the enthusiasm of a motivated and exceptionally well-prepared ensemble that has grown together over the years. The Tyrolean Festival Erl Orchestra was first formed in the summer of 1999—and today, musicians from 20 nations play together. Already in its first year, the ensemble achieved unprecedented success, which would go on to bring international recognition to the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Top young talents, musicians from major international orchestras, chamber music specialists, and lecturers come together annually in summer and winter—and since 2017, also in fall and spring—as part of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Under the direction of festival founder Gustav Kuhn, the orchestra garnered rave reviews from international critics and cemented its reputation as one of the world’s finest Wagner orchestras. With the start of Jonas Kaufmann’s tenure as artistic director in September 2024, Asher Fisch—a conductor in high demand internationally in both opera and concert settings—has taken over the helm of the orchestra.

In addition to Richard Wagner’s ten major music dramas and operas by Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Rossini, the orchestra’s repertoire includes Beethoven’s symphonies and many other key works from the concert repertoire spanning the Baroque and Romantic periods, as well as contemporary works and world premieres.