During the 1813–14 carnival season in Naples, Simon Mayr wrote a much-admired opera semiseria called Elena. The post-revolutionary Napoleonic era saw great enthusiasm for the rescue opera genre and Elena is a perfect example, in which a complex plot, based on French models, sees an innocent falsely accused of a capital offence. Mayr’s subtle accommodation of Neapolitan opera and Viennese Classicism ensures a series of choruses and recitatives that drive the action forward, punctuated with arias, romances, ensembles, lyric richness and moments of witty buffo colour.

Cast:
- Elena / Riccardo: Julia Sophie Wagner (soprano)
- Costantino: Daniel Ochoa (bass)
- Paolino / Adolfo: Mira Graczyk (soprano)
- Carlo: Niklas Mallmann (bass)
- Edmondo: Markus Schäfer (tenor)
- Anna: Anna-Doris Capitelli (mezzo-soprano)
- Ernesta: Anna Feith (soprano)
- Governor: Fang Zhi (tenor)
- Herald: Harald Thum (tenor)
- Urbino: Andreas Mattersberger (bass)