Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe

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Overview

Duration: approx. 2 hours (intermission after Act I)

"La finta giardiniera" (The Pretend Garden-Girl) KV 196

Dramma giocoso in three acts

Libretto presumabely by Giuseppe Petrosellini

First performance: Munich, January 13, 1775

New staging of the historic production from the Mozart Week 1976

Shortened version with new dialogues in German

In German and Italian with German and English explanations

Dates

Abstract

Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera (The Pretend Garden-Girl) celebrates two anniversaries in the same year: it was premiered 250 years ago in Munich, and 50 years ago the production at the Salzburg Marionette Theatre was created in the unmistakable sets and costumes by the legendary stage designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen. The historic production is now being revived.

Music

With the use of a musical recording:

Sandrina: Sophie Karthäuser

Contino Belfiore: Jeremy Ovenden

Arminda: Alex Penda

Ramiro: Marie-Claude Chappuis

Podestà: Nicolas Rivenq

Serpetta: Sunhae Im

Nardo: Michael Nagy

Conductor: René Jacobs

Freiburger Barockorchester

Harmonia Mundi 2012

Cast

Set design: Günther Schneider-Siemssen

Costumes: Marie-Luise Walek

Production, Concept: Philippe Brunner

Ensemble of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre

Dialogue-recitation: Studierende des Departments Schauspiel, Regie & Applied Theatre – Thomas Bernhard Institut der Universität Mozarteum

Additional
information

A production of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre in cooperation with the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation and the Salzburg Mozarteum University as part of the Mozart Week 2025.

Mozart Week 2025