Name: Mosè in Egitto
Start: 2017-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Bregenzer Festspielhaus

Organization

Bregenzer Festspiele

Bass

Andrew Foster-Williams

Faraone

Soprano

Mandy Fredrich

Amaltea

Tenor

Sunnyboy Dladla

Osiride

Clarissa Costanzo

Elcia

Taylan Reinhard

Mambre

Goran Jurić

Mosè

Matteo Macchioni

Aronne

Mezzo-soprano

Dara Savinova

Amenofi

Conductor

Enrique Mazzola

Stage director

Lotte de Beer

Set designer

Christof Hetzer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Alex Brok

Chorus master

Lukáš Vasilek

Others

Philharmonischer Chor Prag

Orchestra

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Taljan

Mosè in Egitto -  (Moses in Egypt)

Bregenz

Austria

Bregenzer Festspielhaus

Werkstattbühne

A rarely performed masterpiece, Gioachino Rossini's Mosè in Egitto, takes center stage at the Bregenz Festival thanks to Lotte de Beer, who unearths this hidden gem of operatic literature for a spectacular production.

De Beer, one of the most sought-after directors of her generation (International Opera Newcomer Award 2015), tells the story of the biblical exodus together with the Dutch theater collective Hotel Modern. Their unique production concept for Moses in Egypt revolves around the ingenuity of Hotel Modern. The theater company creates its own reality through live animations, with which they depict crowd scenes and the parallel narratives of the people and slaves. Miniature cameras, thousands of figures, models of villages and towns and a spectacular aquarium installation present the story of the biblical plagues and the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt through the divided Red Sea in the Festspielhaus Bregenz - "a stroke of genius" (Der Standard).

The universally applicable narrative with its themes of migration and powerlessness has lost none of its urgency and topicality and is brought to life by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Mazzola and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Mazzola, who is a powerhouse on the podium, drives the symphony to peak performance. Soprano Mandy Fredrich captivates as Amaltea and British bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams as Pharaoh, alongside Goran Jurić, who is "a Mosè with bear-like power and softness" (Der Standard). Clarissa Costanzo (Elcia) proves to be an expressive soprano. Energetic Matteo Macchioni and dazzling Taylan Reinhard impress in their roles as Aronne and Mambre, while sunny boy Dladla (Osiride) with his "

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