Dora
- Location:
- Opernhaus Stuttgart, Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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She is in her mid-twenties and stuck in the bosom of her family. She has life ahead of her, but suspects that the future only has the familiar to offer. Dora, opera heroine of the 21st century, meets the life plans of her present with uncompromising total rejection and restlessly and aimlessly searches for something different. Bernhard Lang's rhythm-driven music with its loops and samplings becomes Dora's accomplice, as new paths constantly appear behind the obsessive repetition of what appears to be the same. In his opera about the longing for the radically new, Lang also plays with the sounds of other eras and, together with the writer Frank Witzel, lays traces of centuries-old figures, myths and stories. In her lack of direction, Dora resorts to a tried and tested trick and summons the devil.
Opera in five acts
Libretto by Frank Witzel
Commissioned by the Stuttgart State Opera
by Bernhard Lang
approx. 1 hr 45 min (no intermission)