Organization

Rued Langaard Festival

Conductor

Magnus Larsson

Stage director

Esben Tange

Lighting designer

Lars Egegaard Sørensen

Set designer

Peter Bruun

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Christina Herresthal

Ishara

David Danholt

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk

Leif Jone Ølberg

Enkido, primitive man

Carina Tybjerg Madsen

Aruru, God of Creation, Lord of Animals

Louise McClelland Jacobsen

Ishtar, Goddess of Love and War

Anna Theresa Torgersen

Citizens of Uruk

Jens Frisdahl Sønderstrup

Shamash, The Sun God

Orchestra

Ensemble Esbjerg

Ensemble MidtVest

Gilgamesh, Nørgård

Public

Approved

Gilgamesh, Nørgård Per Nørgård

Introducing Ishara - Gilgamesh by Per Nørgård.
Ishara: Christina af Klinteberg Herresthal
Enkido: Leif-Jone Ølberg
Orchestra: Ensemble Esbjerg and Ensemble MidtVest conducted by Magnus Larsson
Rued Langaard Festival Premiere September 2022. 
Instructed by Esben Tange.
Produced by Rune Mielonen Grassov and Klavs Kehlet Hansen.

Per Nørgård’s Gilgamesh is a pioneer major work in contemporary Danish opera, and it was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1974. The text is based on one of the oldest accounts of the Creation, the 4000-yearold Gilgamesh epic from Mesopotamia, which portrays the super-hero and anti-hero Gilgamesh, who both loses and gains love in his restless search for power and eternal life. The singers and musicians performing in the opera do so on an equal footing in a mythological universe around which the sun-god Shamash – the conductor – orbits, and in which the audience get right up close to the dramatic events. And with music which, permeated by beauty beyond new and old, open up completely new horizons, the scene is set for a musical-dramatic experience that is unequalled.  For the first time, the Rued Langgaard Festival invites you inside Ribelund, which, despite its position in the heart of Ribe, is an unknown place to many people. An obvious choice of venue for this 4000-year-old actuality.

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