Zaide

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Singspiel in two acts (incomplete)

Libretto by Johannes Andreas Schachtner adapted from Joseph Sebastiani

First performed on 27th January 1866 at the Frankfurt Opera

Conductor Louis Langrée
Stage director Peter Sellars
Stage Design Georges Tsypin
Costumes Gabriel Berry
Lighting James F Ingalls

Zaide Ekaterina Lekhina
Gomatz Sean Panikkar
Allazim Alfred Walker
Sultan Soliman Russell Thomas
Osmin Morris Robinson
Orchestra Camerata Salzburg

Production/coproduction

A Wiener Festwochen production, Premiere on 21st May at the Jugendstiltheater (Vienna)

A coproduction with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York) and the Barbican Centre (London)

“Because luck and glory smile on you, you misjudge your brothers." Allazim, Act II, scene 7

How can a spirit remain free when the individual is oppressed? Will Zaide overcome her slavery through resignation or revolt? For the first time at Aix-en-Provence, here is the only opera Mozart composed on his own initiative and not as a commission.

Hence its comparative incompleteness, its posthumous production and its rarity. For this very reason, Zaide is a visionary work. Intended by Mozart to found the German Enlightenment, it showed occidental theatre the domineering power of romantic sentiment.

The first performance is in memory of Gabriel Dussurget

Sung in German with French subtitles