Name: Acis and Galatea
Start: 2013-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Nuria Rial

Galatea

Countertenor

Lawrence Zazzo

Acis

Bass

Andrew Foster-Williams

Polyphemus

Conductor

Paul Goodwin

Carolyn Sampson

Cloris

Eurilla

Contralto

Hilary Summers

Filli

Tenor

Michael Feyfar

Silvio

MusikTheater an der Wien

Mezzo-soprano

Dorinda

Others

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Orchestra

kammerorchesterbasel

Raphael Jud Benoît Haller

English

Italian

Acis and Galatea

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Public

Approved

Concert performance in English and Italian The love story between the sea nymph Galateia and the shepherd Akis comes from Greek mythology and is already the subject of Ovid's Metamophoses. The plot is simple: Acis and Galatea love each other. However, Polifemo, a one-eyed cyclops, is also in love with Galatea and desires her. Out of resentment, he breaks off a mountain peak and kills Acis with it. With divine help, Galatea transforms her Acis into a river, which from now on delights all other shepherds with babbling.
Handel's Acis fabric is also based on this ancient story. The economically thinking composer edited
his two existing Acis settings and even combines English and Italian here. This creates a pasticcio-like mixed form in this work, which is rarely performed today, which is neither an opera nor an oratorio. Handel himself decidedly calls this version Serenata.

Acis and Galatea by Händel, From (2013/2013), Conductor Paul Goodwin, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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Cast

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Further reading

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