Szene aus "Il viaggo a Reims": Sängerin sitz auf Koffern auf einem Gepäckwagen, der von einem Sänger geschoben wird

Opera

Il viaggio a Reims / The Journey to Reims

Gioachino Rossini

Europe in 1825: A group of aristocrats travelling from all over Europe to the coronation of Charles X of France are stranded in a luxury spa hotel near Reims due to a lack of horses. The situation soon descends into a morass of love affairs, chicanery, secret plans and jealous passions.

But necessity is the mother of invention: In the end, everyone agrees to throw a »peace« party to bring about a general reconciliation. Gioachino Rossini’s »scenic cantata« was written in 1825 on the occasion of the actual coronation celebrations held in Paris for Charles X. This highly virtuosic and musically dazzling piece of satire gathers together Europe’s great powers from the first half of the 19th century in the seemingly innocuous setting of a hotel. In Laura Scozzi’s humorous yet bitterly serious production, the European aristocrats become EU politicians, trying to reconcile their interests according to the EU motto »United in Diversity«. They meet at the very heart of Europe, namely in the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels.

Dramma giocoso in one act

Libretto by Giuseppe Luigi Balochi

Performed in Italian with German and English supertitles

Premiere
28. September 2019,

No further performances in the current season.