CABILDO

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The opera Cabildo by US composer Amy Beach is being staged in Germany for the first time. The International Maritime Museum Hamburg will be transformed into the setting for the action! The protagonist Mary actually just wanted to take a trip to the museum when she gets lost in a whirlpool of her own dream world. She plunges into 19th century New Orleans and comes across the pirate Pierre Lafitte in the Cabildo dungeon. He is actually awaiting execution when his beloved Lady Valerie appears and offers him a way out of his predicament. But is it all just a confused dream, or are there parallels to Mary's real life? What role does Lady Valerie play and can history, in which the role of women was mostly ignored, be reinterpreted and rewritten? A musical theater project that looks at maritime history from a new perspective!

Performers
Amy Buttschardt
Antonia Schlünzen
Aminata Toscano
Mio Perl
Julia Cao
Chenyu Wan
Elisabeth Wild
Anna-Amalia Nowak
Emma Niemann
and singers from the HfMT Hamburg and the Hfm Lübeck

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Registration is required and can be done via eventbrite.

Cooperation between the HfMT Hamburg's Music Theater Directing course and the International Maritime Museum Hamburg

Supported and sponsored by the Hapag-Lloyd Foundation

Dates at a glance
18.07.2026
19.07.2026