Name: Xerxes
Start: 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Landestheater Detmold

Organization

Conductor

Per-Otto Johansson

Stage director

Kay Link

Dramaturge

Elisabeth Wirtz

Chorus master

Francesco Damiani

Singer

Soprano

Lotte Kortenhaus

Arsamene

Contralto

Dorothee Bienert

Amastre

Bass

Irakli Atanelishvili

Ariodate

Stephanie Hershaw

Romilda

Penelope Kendros

Atalanta

Seungweon Lee

Elviro

Set designer

Olga von Wahl

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Carsten-Alexander Lenauer

Maayan Licht

Xerxes

Zsófia Mózer

Landestheater Detmold

Others

Chor des Landestheaters Detmold

Orchestra

Symphonisches Orchester

Detmold

Germany

Wolfenbüttel

Lessingtheater

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Musette de cour Player

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Mezzo-soprano

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Xerxes Händel

Die Eroberungsfeldzüge des persischen Großfürsten Xerxes gelten nicht fremden Territorien, sondern einer Frau, die er einfach nicht gewinnen kann. Xerxes hat...

The conquests of the Persian Grand Duke Xerxes are not aimed at foreign territories, but at a woman he simply cannot win over. Xerxes has abandoned his bride Amastre and has now chosen Romilda as his new object of desire. But she is the lover of his brother Arsamene, whom Romilda's sister Atalanta desires.
This opera is Handel's finest satirical comedy. The score moves deftly between farce and tragedy and always gives a deep insight into the emotional world of the characters. Handel uses a musical language that is comparatively modern for his time: he drives the action forward by largely dispensing with long da capo arias, choosing instead short song forms and often combining recitative and aria in an unusually close manner. »Xerxes« thrives on an extremely intense and therefore gripping emotional language and has since become one of Handel's most popular stage works.

English

Die Eroberungsfeldzüge des persischen Großfürsten Xerxes gelten nicht fremden Territorien, sondern einer Frau, die er einfach nicht gewinnen kann. Xerxes hat seine Braut Amastre sitzen lassen und nun Romilda als neues Objekt der Begierde auserkoren. Sie ist aber die Geliebte seines Bruders Arsamene, den wiederum Romildas Schwester Atalanta begehrt.
Diese Oper ist Händels schönste satirische Komödie. Die Partitur bewegt sich gewandt zwischen Farce und Tragödie und gibt zu jeder Zeit einen tiefen Einblick in die Gefühlswelt der Figuren. Händel verwendet eine für seine Zeit vergleichsweise moderne Musiksprache: Er treibt die Handlung voran, indem er weitgehend auf lange Da-capo-Arien verzichtet, stattdessen kurze Liedformen wählt und Rezitativ und Arie häufig ungewöhnlich eng verzahnt. »Xerxes« lebt von einer äußerst intensiven und dadurch packenden Affektsprache und wurde inzwischen zu einem der beliebtesten Bühnenwerke Händels.

Deutsch

Xerxes by Händel, From (2023/2023), Directed by Kay Link,, Conductor Per-Otto Johansson, Landestheater Detmold, Detmold, Germany

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