Name: Kain und Abel oder der erste Mord
Start: 2022-04-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Landestheater Linz

Organization

Stage director

Gregor Horres

Conductor

Anne Marie Dragosits

Jinie Ka

Costume designer

Yvonne Forster

Set designer

Elisabeth Pedross

Dramaturge

Christoph Blitt

Singer

Michael Daub

Adamo

Tina Josephine Jaeger

Claudio Novati

Mary Adams

Grégoire Delamare

Abe Adams

Ken Adams

Bass

Peter Fabig

Erzähler

Hanyi Jang

Caino

Jana Markovich

Abel

Gott / Satan

Double Adamo

Ran, former soldier

Orchestra

Bruckner Orchester Linz

Instrumentalensemble aus Studierenden des Instituts für  Alte Musik der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität

Landestheater Linz Musiktheater

Italian

English

Kain und Abel oder der erste Mord

Linz

Austria

Landestheater Linz

Kain und Abel oder der erste Mord: The Brothers Antheil (+1 More)

Public

The Brothers

Caino e Abele

German

Approved

It is the mythical tale of how crime came into the world. It is the story of the first murder, which has since been repeated over and over again in the most diverse variations and will continue to repeat itself. It is about envy and jealousy, revenge and regret. It is about Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve. Because God accepted Abel's sacrifice, but not Cain's, the latter kills his brother. And since this biblical incident touches on the basic constants of human life, it remains with us to this day. So it's no wonder that artists have taken up this theme again and again throughout the millennia. The Linz Landestheater now presents and contrasts two moving examples of this ongoing examination of the first murder when it combines Bernardo Pasquini's early Baroque oratorio Caino et Abel from 1671 in a staged performance with George Antheil's chamber opera The Brothers, which premiered in 1954.
While Pasquini (1637-1710), who was a celebrated composer, harpsichordist and organist in Roman musical life during his lifetime, approaches the material with a deeply felt Baroque religiosity, Antheil (1900-1959) transposes the biblical narrative to his American present. Antheil, who began his career as a "bad boy of music", used a tonal language whose sensual seriousness appealed directly to the listener.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble