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Singer

Countertenor

Kristina Hammarström

Cain

Olivia Vermeulen

Abel

Soprano

Brigitte Christensen

Tenor

Thomas Walker

Adamo

Benno Schachtner

Voce di Dio

Bass

Arttu Kataja

Voce di Lucifero

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René Jacobs

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Romeo Castellucci

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Piersandra Di Matteo

Christian Longchamp

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Benedikt Zehm

Jana Beckmann

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B'Rock Orchestra

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Cain, overo Il primo omicidio -  (Cain, or The First Homicide)

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Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Apollo-Saal

Cain, overo Il primo omicidio Scarlatti,A

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Cain, or The First Homicide

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IL PRIMO OMICIDIO I Spielzeit 2019/20 I Oratorium in zwei Teilen (1707) I Musik von Alessandro ScarlattiIL PRIMO OMICIDIO I Season 2019/20 I Oratorio in two ...

Evil knows no consolation. Cain kills his brother Abel, committing the first murder in human history. The theme of »Il Primo Omicidio« is the feeling of envy, inequality and injustice as the origin of immoral behavior and vigilantism. In Romeo Castellucci's staging, the rarely performed work becomes a meditation on the condition of being human.

Die Arbeiten des italienischen Regisseurs sind geprägt von einer kraftvoll suggestiven Bildsprache, in welcher Musik, Licht und Bildende Kunst miteinander verschmelzen. Mit dem 1707 in Venedig uraufgeführten Oratorium »Il Primo Omicidio ovvero Caino« von Alessandro Scarlatti setzt sich Castellucci nach »Moses und Aron« erneut mit einem biblischen Stoff auseinander: die Geschichte von Kain und Abel steht im Zentrum des Librettos von Pietro Ottoboni, das die Konsequenzen der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies weiter schreibt. Der italienische Komponist Alessandro Scarlatti gilt mit seinem vielfältigen Œuvre als wegweisender Reformer der Barockmusik, der viele seiner Zeitgenossen dazu inspirierte, neue musikalische Wege zu bestreiten. Er entwickelte die vorherrschende Opernpraxis weiter und schuf die Vorläufer des Streichquartetts und der klassischen Sinfonie. Lange Zeit war »Il Primo Omicidio« von der Bildfläche verschwunden. Erst 1964 wurde die Partitur wieder aufgefunden und erlebt seitdem eine Renaissance.

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Evil knows no consolation. Cain kills his brother Abel, committing the first murder in human history. The theme of »Il Primo Omicidio« is the feeling of envy, inequality and injustice as the origin of immoral behavior and vigilantism. In Romeo Castellucci's staging, the rarely performed work becomes a meditation on the condition of being human.

The works of the Italian director are characterized by a powerfully suggestive visual language in which music, light and visual arts merge. With the oratorio »Il Primo Omicidio ovvero Caino« by Alessandro Scarlatti, which premiered in Venice in 1707, Castellucci again deals with biblical material after »Moses and Aron«: the story of Cain and Abel is at the center of Pietro Ottoboni’s libretto, which consequences of the expulsion from paradise. With his diverse oeuvre, the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti is regarded as a pioneering reformer of Baroque music, who inspired many of his contemporaries to break new musical ground. He further developed the prevailing operatic practice and created the forerunners of the string quartet and the classical symphony. »Il Primo Omicidio« had disappeared from the scene for a long time. The score was only rediscovered in 1964 and has since experienced a renaissance.

Cain, or The First Homicide by Scarlatti, Alessandro, From (2019/2019), Directed by Romeo Castellucci,, Conductor René Jacobs, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

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