Name: Admeto
Start: 2006-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2006-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Großer Saal

Admin

Organization

Countertenor

Matthias Rexroth

Admeto

Soprano

Romelia Lichtenstein

Alceste

Bass

Bass-baritone

Raimund Nolte

Ercole

Contralto

Melanie Hirsch

Orindo

Tim Mead

Trasimede

Mechthild Bach

Antigona

Baritone

Gerd Vogel

Meraspe

Conductor

Howard Arman

Stage director

Axel Köhler

Set designer

Stage director (+1)

Roland Aeschlimann

Costume designer

Marie-Thérèse Jossen

Halle Opera House

Orchestra

Händelfestspielorchesters Halle

Großer Saal

Admeto -  (Admetus)

Halle (Saale)

Germany

Halle

Axel Köhler stages an outstanding production of Admeto, one of Handel's masterworks.

Georg Friedrich Handel's Admeto is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century. Along with Radamisto, Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano, Rodelinda and Alessandro, which were also written in this period, Admeto belongs to Handel's so-called "London operas" – which were all composed for the Royal Academy of Music.

Though born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent most of his adult life in London and became a British subject in 1727. Axel Köhler, the celebrated counter-tenor who is active in Munich, Halle and Berlin – now also well-known for his work as a director – has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skilful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Köhler's production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness and gives it a convincing metaphor in the form of a modern hospital.

Admeto Händel

Opera

Admetus

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading