Name: Ulysses
Start: 2024-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Stadttheater Solothurn

Organization

Conductor

Clemens Flick

Stage director

Nicola Raab

Set designer

Madeleine Boyd

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Natalie Widmer

Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn

Orchestra

Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn

Theater und Orchester Heidelberg

Lighting designer

Samuele D‘Amico

Chorus master

Valentin Vassilev

Repetiteur

Riccardo Fiscato

Francis Benichou

Singer

Bass

Henryk Böhm

Ulysses

Soprano

Clara Meloni

Penelope

Dora Rubart-Pavlíková

Circe

Tenor

Remy Burnens

Eurilochus

Benjamin Molonfalean

Urilas

Klaus Brantzen

Mercurius

Roxane Choux

Cephalia

Arpax

Others

Choir of the Biel Solothurn Theater

Anna Beatriz Gomes

Amouretten

Eszter Gyüdi

Raísa Ierone

Gulden Vildan Atakan

German

Biel/Bienne

Switzerland

Stadttheater Biel

Solothurn

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Musette de cour Player

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Ulysses Keiser

Ulysses returns to Ithaca after the Trojan War and his odyssey. Ulysses and his wife Penelope haven't seen each other for twenty years. They have become strangers in these uncertain times. As if that weren't enough, the sorceress Circe and the suitor Urilas, with the help of evil spirits, try to break up the long-suffering couple for good... Will Ulysses and Penelope be able to find their love for each other again?

During his lifetime, the composer Reinhard Keizer was a bright star in the German baroque opera sky and worked mainly in Hamburg at the Oper am Gänsemarkt. His homage opera "Ulysses" was commissioned by the Danish crown and premiered in Copenhagen in 1722. The work, which has survived only as a fragment, was completed by Clemens Flick and returns to the opera stage after three hundred years in the production by Nicola Raab. What a rediscovery!

English

Ulysses kehrt nach dem Trojanischen Krieg und seiner Irrfahrt nach Ithaka zurück. Zwanzig Jahre haben sich Ulysses und seine Frau Penelope nicht mehr gesehen. Fremd sind sie sich geworden in diesen unsicheren Zeiten. Als wäre das noch nicht genug, versuchen die Zauberin Circe und der Freier Urilas mithilfe von bösen Geistern, das leidgeprüfte Paar endgültig auseinander zu bringen... Wird es Ulysses und Penelope gelingen, ihre Liebe füreinander wiederzufinden?

Der Komponist Reinhard Keiser war zu seinen Lebzeiten ein heller Stern am deutschen Barockopern-Himmel und wirkte hauptsächlich in Hamburg an der Oper am Gänsemarkt. Seine Huldigungsoper «Ulysses» entstand im Auftrag der dänischen Krone und wurde 1722 in Kopenhagen uraufgeführt. Das nur als Fragment überlieferte Werk wurde von Clemens Flick vervollständigt und kehrt nach dreihundert Jahren in der Inszenierung von Nicola Raab wieder auf die Opernbühne zurück. Was für eine Wiederentdeckung!

Deutsch

Ulysses by Keiser, Thu 25 Apr 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Nicola Raab,, Conductor Clemens Flick, Stadttheater Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland

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