Rienzi
Richard Wagner
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen
Grand Tragic Opera in Five Acts by Richard Wagner after the novel Cola di Rienzi by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Wagner’s Rienzi, his first successful stage work, was inspired by the legendary fourteenth-century Roman Tribune Cola di Rienzo, who gained power through a revolt against the entrenched nobility. The opera traces the protagonist’s predictable journey from liberator to absolutism and to despotism and downfall.
“ Odyssey is off to an auspicious start.”
–The Boston Globe
Cast and Creative
![Kristian Benedikt](https://archive.odysseyopera.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Kristian_Benedikt-500x500.jpg)
Rienzi
![Elisabete Matos](https://archive.odysseyopera.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/77ae6ed898f1228f0baf3aa6b4df8812.jpg)
Irene
![Margaret Jane Wray](https://archive.odysseyopera.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped.jpg)
Adriano Colonna
Beth Willer, Artistic Director
PRODUCTION STAFF
Harris Ipock … Chorusmaster
Karin Hartmann Ludlow … Production Stage Manager
Veronica Haakonsen … Assistant Stage Manager
Carola Emrich-Fisher … German diction coach
Cori Ellison … Supertitle translator
Dan McGaha … Supertitle operator