Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (The Face in the Mirror) – Hungarian premiere
Performance by Neue Oper Wien

Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (The Face in the Mirror) – Hungarian premiere
Performance by Neue Oper Wien

Müpa Budapest — Festival Theatre

15 October, 2022 | 7.00 pm

Ticket prices

3900 HUF | 4900 HUF | 5900 HUF

Patrizia: Roxane Choux
Justine: Ana Catarina Caseiro
Bruno: Wolfgang Resch
Milton: Andreas Jankowitsch
N.: Eszter Petrány
Featuring: UMZE Ensemble, Women's Choir of Wiener Kammerchor (choirmaster: Bernhard Jaretz)
Conductor: Walter Kobéra
Music: Jörg Widmann
Libretto: Roland Schimmelpfennig
Set, costumes: Christof Cremer
Sound: Christina Bauer
Lighting: Norbert Chmel
Director: Carlos Wagner

One of the most renowned composers and clarinettists of our time, Jörg Widmann wrote his first opera at the request of the Munich Opera Festival. The commission was for a piece that specifically addressed a contemporary, topical issue. Voted premiere of the year 2003 by the critics of Opernwelt, the work went on to be performed by several German companies and opera houses.
The piece, whose libretto was written by Roland Schimmelpfennig, is about an ambitious young couple, Patrizia and Bruno, who own a biotechnology company. The firm seems to be on the verge of making it big because one of its engineers, Milton has come up with the technology of cloning humans. He creates a perfect copy of Patrizia, who is even more perfect than the model, because, among other things, she can immediately recover from injuries. However, Justine, the clone, must not look in a mirror or else she would immediately realize she is but a copy... In addition to probing into ethical questions related to modern technologies, Widmann’s opera also presents a compelling emotional drama as Bruno and Milton become rivals when both fall in love with Justine.

For the excessive use of sound effects, we do not recommend the performance for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to sound.

This performance of the Liszt Fest is presented by Müpa Budapest as a joint event with Neue Oper Wien.

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet

Müpa Budapest — Festival Theatre

15 October, 2022 | 7.00 pm

Ticket prices

3900 HUF | 4900 HUF | 5900 HUF

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet

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