Deutsche Oper Berlin: Le Prophète

Meyerbeers Grand Opéra on the historical Anabaptist king Jean de Leyde is a carefully thought-out idea theatre and history panorama trained in mass psychology in one: the history of political radicalisation as a private and public catastrophe.

When the despotic Count Oberthal robs the simple innkeeper of his fiancée, Jean joins the Protestant Anabaptist sect. As their prophet he is to lead the masses to the Anabaptists. But powerlust and excessiveness undermine social utopia.

"Do you want to be the masters of your masters?" - With this question, the Anabaptists already stirred up the rural population at the beginning of the opera: not the classless society, not freedom, equality, fraternity, but simply a reversal of the power relations drives these hearts around. Power - this is the realization of Meyerbeer's opera creations - corrupted.

The only voice of reason are the women who - we are in the 19th century - the apolitical, powerless of this world; above all Jeans mother Fidès, who admonishes the bewitched son to conversion and offers absolute forgiveness.

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In French language with German and English surtitles
4 hours 30 minutes / Two breaks
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the rank foyer on the right


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