The series of performances of María de Buenos Aires was already sold out weeks before the premiere in January 2024 - now the successful production is returning to the Kammeroper with an unchanged cast.
Piazzolla's tango opera, which premiered in 1968, is a work that is both thought-provoking and intoxicating, highlights social ills and celebrates life, is a declaration of love and an indictment of the tango. María comes from the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Caught up in the desires of a world characterized by crime and machismo, she becomes a projection screen for her surroundings. Transfigured into a saint, degraded to an object, she goes her own way undeterred until she - now a successful tango singer - falls victim to a femicide. But in the surreal world of Piazzolla, she is given a new chance: as a shadow, she can fight her way back into life. A young production team led by director Juana Inés Cano Restrepo unravels the "María case", mercilessly putting the knife into the social wound and also giving space to Piazzolla's indestructible poetry. Led by mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini, the ensemble on stage has many years of experience with Piazzolla's only stage work. And the Graz-based band folksmilch will provide a sound that is as authentic as it is excitingly new.
April 9 to 14, 2025
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"María de Buenos Aires", 2024, MusikTheater an der Wien © Image: SN/APA/Theater an der Wien/Liliya N
