Opera in three acts, HWV 37 (1737)
Libretto by an unknown hand based on a text by Nicolò Beregan (1683), edited by Pietro Pariati (1711) and surviving in an anonymous version from 1724, based on Procopius of Caesarea’s Anekdota (c. 550)
in Italian with German and English supertitles
Musical director: Wolfgang Katschner
Stage director: Eugenio Monti Colla
Scenery, lighting: Franco Citterio
Costumes: Eugenio Monti Colla, Cecilia Di Marco
Giustino: Benno Schachtner
Anastasio, Fortuna: Johanna Kaldewei
Arianna: Maria Ladurner
Leocasta: Julia Böhme
Vitaliano: Gwilym Bowen
Amanzio, Polidarte: Cornelius Uhle
Compagnia Marionettistica
Carlo Colla & Figli
lautten compagney BERLIN
With the kind support of Orbis Real Estate GmbH
Please note: A bus transfer is available for the outbound and return journey. Tickets for this must be purchased separately. When booking the event, bus tickets will be offered to you as an option.
80/65/30 €
Giustino is the second part of the trilogy resulting from the collaboration between lautten compagney BERLIN and the Milan-based marionette theatre Carlo Colla & Figli. The production was first performed in the Goethe Theatre in Bad Lauchstädt in 2017 and now returns to the stage in 2026 in a new configuration. The opera relates the fairy-tale rise of the supposed peasant’s son Giustino to emperor – a Baroque adventure with sea monsters, a bear and royal intrigues, borne along by musical levity and exuberantly imaginative staging. But precisely the abstract nature of puppet theatre transforms this heroic drama into a many-layered reflection on power, identity and male projection, opening up a space for interpretation that enables us to take a new look at “images of men” in the world of opera – right in line with this year’s festival theme.