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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
Prices PB
Premiere at 23. July 2018
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Download Cast List (PDF) To List of PerformancesCast
- 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.
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)