Borgia

In the organizer's words:

Ballet by Jörg Mannes | Music by Henryk Górecki, Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass | World premiere
From 12 years

The Borgias - Spanish upstarts in the power-spoiled Italian aristocracy, unscrupulous string-pullers in the struggle for secular and ecclesiastical power, licentious Renaissance men with a penchant for adultery and poisoning: hardly any other family embodies the greed for power and moral corruption of 15th century Rome like this one - and hardly any other family continues to fascinate to this day. After all, openly practiced unscrupulousness is only the flip side of biographies full of joie de vivre, political self-confidence and artistic flair.
At the center of Jörg Mannes' new ballet evening is the dazzling figure of Rodrigo Borgia, who, as Pope Alexander VI, did everything in his power to provide his son Cesare with a secure reign and his daughter Lucrezia with influential husbands. One of his numerous mistresses was Giulia Farnese, 40 years his junior, who in turn used the relationship to advance her brother in the hierarchy of the Papal States - he was to become one of Alexander's successors. Who is seducing whom here? How far will one go for power and influence?