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Dramma eroicomico in three acts

Choreography In Italian with English and German surtitles · Composer Joseph Haydn · Libretto by Nunziato Porta | New Production

Munich Opera Festival
Sunday, 29. July 2018
05:00 pm – 08:10 pm
Prinzregententheater

Duration est. 3 hours 10 minutes · 1. Akt (est. 05:00 pm - 06:10 pm ) · Interval (est. 06:10 pm - 06:40 pm ) · 2. + 3. Akt (est. 06:40 pm - 08:05 pm )

Introductory Event: 04:00 PM

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Premiere at 23. July 2018

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Cast

Conductor
Ivor Bolton
Production
Axel Ranisch
Set Design
Falko Herold
Choreography
Magdalena Padrosa Celada
Lighting
Michael Bauer
Dramaturgy
Rainer Karlitschek
Angelica
Adela Zaharia
Rodomonte
Edwin Crossley-Mercer
Orlando
Mathias Vidal
Medoro
Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
Licone
Guy de Mey
Eurilla
Elena Sancho Pereg
Pasquale
David Portillo
Alcina
Tara Erraught
Caronte
François Lis
Gabi und Heiko Herz
Heiko Pinkowski, Gabi Herz
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This knight is no war hero; choosing to pursue his obsession, rather than to fight. Orlando, the illustrious crusader from Ariost‘s verse novel Orlando furioso, is in love with Angelica, though she is betrothed to another. In his erotomania, he presents a both unintentionally funny and tragic figure. Joseph Haydn described his (at that time) most internationally successful opera from 1782 as a dramma eroicomico; this categorisation already suggests what the composer, as he sat in his opera laboratory at the Palace of Esterházy, was interested in: namely, in taking seriously and musically exploring the depths of human existence in all its brokenness, regardless of how bizarre this might appear.

 

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Biographies

Ivor Bolton studierte am Royal College of Music und am National Opera Studio in London. Anschließend war er Musikdirektor der English Touring Opera, der Glyndebourne Touring Opera und des Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Gastdirigate führten ihn u. a. nach Wien, Zürich, Frankfurt, Paris, London, New York, Amsterdam, Dresden, Leipzig und Barcelona sowie zu den Festspielen in Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence und seit 2000 jährlich nach Salzburg. Von 2004 bis 2016 war er Chefdirigent des Mozarteum-Orchesters Salzburg. Derzeit ist er musikalischer Leiter des Dresdner Festspielorchesters, seit 2015 außerdem Musikdirektor am Teatro Real in Madrid und seit 2016 Chefdirigent des Sinfonieorchesters Basel. (Stand: 2019)

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