Saturday, 12/7/2024
at 7:30 PM


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Biographical play by Terrence McNally

Weiterspielen production of the adaptation for Volkstheater Wien

New York, 1971. The Juilliard School invites to a sensation: Maria Callas holds her first and only masterclass. The vocal elite of the city is in the audience to witness how the notoriously difficult diva shares her artistic secrets with selected students. She has already paid for her highest standards and ruthlessness with the loss of her singing voice.

The American author Terrence McNally has created a masterpiece of biographical theater with "Meisterklasse." Two sopranos and a tenor work with Maria Callas on arias from La Sonnambula, Lady Macbeth, and Tosca – each opera a milestone in her career. Her performance as a teacher in New York allows her to return to the triumphs and upheavals of her life. Thus, the discrepancy between the public and the private person becomes tangible, between the immense power and impact of Callas on stage and the tormenting memories of her own powerlessness.

The production with Andrea Eckert as the unrelenting, vulnerable diva at the Vienna Volkstheater has a special status: Record-breaking 170,000 visitors saw this over the course of twelve years, and Andrea Eckert has received numerous awards for it. For Callas's 100th birthday, she revived her masterclass and also excites audiences in Germany.

With: Andrea Eckert (Maria), Daniel Große Boymann (Pianist), Claudia Emà Camie (Soprano), Teresa Gardner (Soprano), Pablo Cameselle (Tenor), Oliver Mülich | Direction: Arie Zinger & Ensemble | Image: Arnulf Rainer | Costumes: Birgit Hutter

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Introduction 7 PM | Recommendation for school classes (16+) | Students 9 € & teachers free | Registration at: anmeldung@theater-ravensburg.de

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