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Also we want to bring them together to find new friends and get to know other cultures, for this we organize different events like parties, trips, sports events and many more.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia, brewer of poisons, adulteress and murderer, does her best to live up to an image of womankind created by men, and just as passionately she does whatever she can to find a new identity. Her son Gennaro falls in love at first sight with her – unaware that she is his mother. Overzealous, in the circle of his young friends, he disgraces her name. For this, he must repent: Don Alfonso, her husband, is determined to put his putative rival out of the way. Poison comes into play. But Gennaro is rescued – by her. Then poison is served up a second time, this time by her, indiscriminately, to the whole group of men. She doesn’t notice Gennaro’s presence until it is too late, and too late she confesses that she is his mother. Gennaro is dead. What remains is a pitiless trauma for the survivors.
In Italian with German and English surtitles. A production of the Bavarian State Opera. More information can be found here. After the event, we might have food and drinks at a nearby establishment.
About the opera
Prologue
In Venice.
Young men are discussing the horror stories being told about the curse on the Borgia family, warning each other to be careful in any dealings with them, especially with Lucrezia,
of whom it is said that she poisons people. The young men have their reasons: they denounce Lucrezia as the murderer of their relations.
Gennaro is the lone wolf in the group. He has no idea who his mother and father were. When a woman appears to him, as if in a dream, he immediately feels drawn to her. The woman takes him tenderly in her arms, like a mother cradling a child. But Gennaro’s friends wake him: the woman to whom he feels so close is Lucrezia Borgia.
Act One
In Ferrara. At night. At the court of the Duca D’Este and his wife, Lucrezia Borgia.
Gennaro and his friends have been invited to Ferrara by the Venetian ambassador. Spies, thieves and murderers surround them. The Duca D’Este suspects that Gennaro is his wife’s lover. Even Gennaro’s friends tease him, hinting that he is having an affair with Lucrezia. This provokes Gennaro to destroy Lucrezia’s coat of arms on the duke’s palace. Lucrezia demands of her husband that he should have the person guilty of this crime killed. The Duca has Gennaro arrested and brought before Lucrezia. Lucrezia, having insisted that the culprit should be killed, is forced by her husband to poison Gennaro. At the last minute she is able to save him by giving him an antidote. Gennaro cannot understand why he is drawn to Lucrezia again and again.
Act Two
Hours later in Ferrara. It is again night.
Gennaro wants to leave Ferrara but his friend Maffio Orsini reminds him how they have sworn to stay together always, through life and in death.In the end, Lucrezia has all Gennaro’s friends poisoned, all those who destroyed the dream of her life that day in Venice, the dream of being unrecognized andloved by someone just for herself. She now takes her revenge and becomes the poisoner the whole world has always taken her for. But again her revenge falls on the one she loves: Gennaro. This time he refuses to accept the antidote. As he dies he finally learns what has always drawn him to Lucrezia.
She is his mother.
