- Opera
- 21 oct – 5 dec 2017, Main Stage.
- Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes, including 1 interval.
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Ensemble
Press images
Team
- Conductor
- Antony Hermus
- Conductor
- Alexander Hanson
- Direction
- David Radok
- Set design
- Lars-Åke Thessman
- Costume design
- Karin Erskine
- Choreography
- Thomas Wilhelm
- Lighting design
- Peter Götzlinger
- Sound Design
- Andreas Renhorn
Die sieben Todsünden
- Anna I
- Edda Magnason
- Anna II
- Sara Suneson
- The family
- Son
- Alexander Grove
- Son
- Øyvind Boye Løvold
- Father
- Mattias Ermedahl
- Mother
- Sami Yousri
- Dancer
- Lina Räftegård
- Dancer
- Sara Suneson
- Dancer
- Jonathan Sikell
- The Göteborg Opera Orchestra
Gianni Schicchi
- Gianni Schicchi
- Åke Zetterström
- Lauretta
- Anna Johansson
- Zita
- Ingrid Tobiasson
- Rinuccio
- Jung Soo Yun
- Gherardo
- Daniel Ralphsson
- Nella
- Carolina Sandgren
- Gherardino
- Daniela Borg/ Ester Sandnil
- Betto from Signa
- Mats Persson
- Simone
- Mats Almgren
- Marco
- Daniel Hällström
- La Ciesca
- Ann-Kristin Jones
- Spinelloccio
- Sami Yousri
- Amantio
- Mattias Ermedahl
- Pinellino
- Alexander Grove
- Guccio
- Øyvind Boye Løvold
- Dancer
- Lina Räftegård
- Dancer
- Jonathan Sikell
- The Göteborg Opera Orchestra
Ticket price SEK 100-640. Twelve performances. Runs until 5 December. Can be chosen in the Your Choice subscription.
Die sieben Todsünden & Gianni Schicchi
Decadent double-bill about loathsome people.
Die sieben Todsünden
”Ballet chanté” in one act by Kurt Weill (1900-1950). Text Bertolt Brecht.
Sung in German with Swedish surtitles.
Gianni Schicchi
Opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto Giovacchino Forzano.
Sung in Italian with Swedish surtitles.
”It is as if Edda Magnason was made to perform this role.”— GP
”Gianni Schicchi, phenomenally performed by Åke Zetterström.”— DN
”Seldom is humor so deliciously black as it is in this production.”— SvD
”Not only a black comedy to laugh at with such schadenfreude, but it is painfully beautiful also!!”— GT/Expressen
Swedish Father’s Day! Special offer - 25% discount.
For performances 15, 19 and 23 November, for seats in the Stalls and Centre Dress Circle.
Max 6 tickets per person. Limited number of tickets available. The offer may not be combined with other discounts.
Pride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth. Vile attributes that eat away at a person, destroy everything that's good and obliterate the light.
Director David Radok and his team have created a single coherent production from two seemingly disparate works: Weill’s 1930s piece Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), with influences from jazz and cabaret, and Puccini’s uproarious comedy Gianni Schicchi (with the world’s most famous aria: O mio babbino caro). The monumentally sinful stage design combines the two works into a single taleof excess, disdain, moral decay and sin.
The central figure in The Seven Deadly Sins is Anna, who is unsuccessfully trying to support her family without committing any of the deadly sins. She is interpreted by singer and Guldbagge Award winner Edda Magnason.
Åke Zetterström interprets the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, in which a greedy family hide the corpse of a rich nobleman in order to amend his will and inherit his riches.
The conductor is Antony Hermus, previously hailed by Göteborgs-Posten for the "fantastic precision" of his Macbeth in Gothenburg.
Images from the performance
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