Evita premiere at Leipzig Opera in Germany

The musical will premiere on 29 March

She was Argentina's "spiritual leader", a "saint". Eva "Evita" Perón has moved a lot and, above all, caused a stir. But now she is dead: Evita died of cancer at the age of only 33 and became a legend. The people fall into deep mourning, and Che retrospectively tells her life story: how she came to Buenos Aires at the age of fifteen through a love affair with a tango singer, where she met important personalities and thus met Juan Perón. She helped him win the presidency and used her voice in the fight against poverty and for the Argentine people until at some point her strength waned...

The successful musical »Evita« by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, first released as an album in 1976 and premiered two years later in London, inspires with its artistic-emotional portrayal of the biography, the spectacular rise and fall of María Eva Duarte de Perón (1919–1952): as the combative nature from a small Argentine town can do all the way to the government palace, the Casa Rosada, and campaigned for workers' and women's rights.

Olivia Delauré will lead the cast as Eve (Evita) Perón, joined by Dominik Hees as Che, Michael Raschle as Juan Perón, Jeffery Krueger as Augustin Magaldi, Da-yung Cho/Maria Hammermann as Juan Perón’s mistress, Claudia Otte as Eva Perón’s mother, Maria-Theresa Martini/Miranda Caasmann as Evita’s Sister, Hernán Atilio Vuga as Evita’s brother, Cornelia Drechsler as Evita’s Aunt, Radoslaw Rydlewski as Evita’s Uncle, Tobias Latte/Georg Führer/Richard Mauersberger/Peter Waelsch/Björn Grandt as Officiers, Stefan Dittko/Björn Grandt as Secret Police Officiers, Thomas Mierzwa as Admiral, Larissa Gomes/Stella Perniceni//Pietro Pelleri/Claudio Valentim as Tango Dancers.

German lyrics by Michael Kunze, conductors Christoph-Johannes Eichhorn and Michael Nündel, staging and lighting Cusch Jung, choreography Mirko Mahr, stage Beate Zoff, costumes Aleksandra Kica, dramaturg Inken Meents, chorus rehearsal Mathias Drechsler.