Luisa and Rodolfo. The bourgeois girl and the count's son. Both love each other across class boundaries and believe in a world in which only the individual counts. But Count von Walter resorts to an infamous intrigue to marry off his son in a manner befitting his station. Luisa's father is arrested and the daughter is blackmailed: Only if Luisa renounces Rodolfo can she save her father's life. Is there a way out? Schiller's highly political and socially critical drama Kabale und Liebe was still so explosive in the 19th century that Verdi had to tone it down for the opera house, but still managed to find a truthful and tense expression of the emotional. A grandiose music drama.

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