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Hong Kong Arts Festival

Cantante

Mezzosoprano

Furio Zanasi

La fragilidad humana

Tenor

Ulises

Director(a) orquestal

Philippe Pierlot

Director(a) de escena

William Kentridge

Escenógrafo(a)

Adrian Kohler

Herman Sorgeloos

Diseñador(a) de video

Catherine Meyburgh

Assistant Director

Luc de Wit

Diseñador(a) de iluminación

Wesley France

Kristina Hammarström

Penélope

Jean-François Novelli

Telémaco

Pisandro

Bajo

Antonio Abete

El tiempo

Neptuno

Antinoo

Soprano

Hanna Bayodi-Hirt

Minerva

El amor

Anna Zander

La fortuna

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Anfinomo

Melanto

Víctor Sordo

Eurímaco

Eumeo

Júpiter

Orchestra

Ricercar Consort

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Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -  (El regreso de Ulises a la patria)

Hong Kong

China

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

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El regreso de Ulises a la patria

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The battle-scarred Ulysses returns from an epic voyage to find a home he barely recognises—a place where his face is no longer known, and his waiting wife Penelope beset by those who stand to gain if he never returns. Homer’s Odyssey is a story of exile and longing, of love, deception and revenge, and it has been retold in almost every conceivable artform, from epic poetry to Hollywood movies; from experimental novels to animé. And, of course, opera. Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse is more than one of the oldest operas in the repertory. It is also a gripping human drama, told through energetic Renaissance dance music and passionate song, bristling with all the emotion, energy and wit of what was—when it was first performed in 1639—state-of-the-art blockbuster entertainment.

Now, visionary director William Kentridge, early music specialists the Ricercar Consort and vocalists specialised in baroque singing, including mezzo-soprano Kristina Hammarström and tenor Jeffrey Thompson, join South Africa’s world-famous Handspring Puppet Company to share their version of Monteverdi’s opera. In a 20th-century Johannesburg hospital, an elderly Ulysses looks back on the events of his life. Through video animation, the power of Monteverdi’s music performed live and Handspring’s extraordinary, life-size puppets, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse blurs the boundaries between human reality and artifice, memory and actuality, to create a powerful, universal and unforgettable operatic experience—like Homer’s original, a timeless epic of absence and adventure, of yearning, love and human fragility, and how fidelity and courage ultimately triumph over deception and greed.

English

El regreso de Ulises a la patria by Monteverdi, vie. 10 mar 2023, De (2023/2023), Dirigido por William Kentridge,, Director Philippe Pierlot

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