Adaptation of the famous novel by Hungarian Sándor Márai, Le Braci tells the meeting in 1940 of two old childhood friends who first met each other at the Military Academy of Vienna: Henrik (the son of a Hungarian prince) and Konrad (belonging to a Polish lower middle class family). They loved the same woman, Krisztina, but she married Henrik. Konrad suddenly left for the tropics and the colonies, after a hunt that threatened to turn into a murder and, forty years later, the two men see each other again one last time to evoke the past and talk again of Krisztina, dead many years ago. Will Henrik be able to finally know the truth about the assassination attempt of Konrad and the infidelity of his wife?
Opera in one act
Music and libretto by Marco Tutino from the homonymous novel by Sándor Márai
Publisher: Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milan
New staging in co-production with the Festival della Valle d’Itria