Organization

Singer

Soprano

Rinnat Moriah

Cassandra

Mezzo-soprano

Iris van Wijnen

Clitemestra

Countertenor

Tobias Hechler

Guardiano

Baritone

Otto Katzameier

Agamemnon

Bass-baritone

Davide Giangregorio

Araldo

Conductor

Tim Anderson

Stage director

Nigel Lowery

Set designer

Video designer

Thilo David Heins

Chorus master

Günter Wallner

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Choir

Larissa Gabshiy

Nadia Petrova

Taras Kuźmych

Mihael Strniša

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Others

Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt

Orchestra

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester

Italian

Il canto s'attrista, perche?

Klagenfurt

Austria

Il canto s'attrista, perche? Sciarrino

Public

German

Approved

IL CANTO S´ATTRISTA, PERCHÉ?
Uraufführung
Szenen nach Aischylos von Salvatore Sciarrino
Libretto vom Komponisten
Koproduktion mit der Oper Wuppertal
In italienischer Sprache mit deutschen Übertiteln

MUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG • Tim Anderson
REGIE, BÜHNE, KOSTÜME • Nigel Lowery
CHOREINSTUDIERUNG • Günter Wallner
DRAMATURGIE • Markus Hänsel
Cassandra • Rinnat Moriah
Clitemestra • Iris van Wijnen
Guardiano • Tobias Hechler
Agamennone • Otto Katzameier
Araldo • Davide Giangregorio
Spielensemble • Klemens Kogelnig, Kara Liebhart, Stefan Ofner, Petra Stietka
Kinderstatisten • Mila Fresacher, Hannah Kessler, Helene Maurer, Franziska Rastl
Kärntner Sinfonieorchester
Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt

IL CANTO S´ATTRISTA, PERCHÉ? - Salvatore Sciarrino - Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Salvatore Sciarrino's new work should have premiered in March 2020, but it had to be postponed to February 4, 2021 due to the first lockdown. Due to the ongoing infection situation, the theaters will remain closed. Since the important work could not be shown in front of an audience, it was premiered on February 4, 2021, but only in front of media representatives. The ORF radio station Ö1 recorded the dress rehearsal of the production and broadcast it on February 23, 2021. Director Aron Stiehl:“We pulled out all the stops to realize the world premiere of this impressive opera in Klagenfurt. The cooperation with Ö1, which we are particularly pleased about, enables us to make this work of art accessible to the public even in times of Corona.”

Salvatore Sciarrino is one of the most important contemporary music theater composers. For his latest opera, he draws inspiration from the tragedies of Aeschylus. The musical direction lies with the young, English-German conductor Tim Anderson. Directed by Nigel Lowery, soprano Rinnat Moriah and bass-baritone Otto Katzameier star as Cassandra and Agamennone.

The libretto, written by Sciarrino himself, is based on Agamemnon , the first part of the Oresteia , in which Aeschylus describes the transition from archaic customs such as blood sacrifice and family feuds to the democratic society of the Attic polis. At the center of the plot is Clytemnestra's terrible revenge on Agamemnon, who cannot forgive her husband for either sacrificing her daughter Iphigenia or committing adultery. With Iphigenie in Aulis and Iphigenie auf Tauris by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Elektra by Richard Strauss, the history of opera already has impressive works that tell the story of the daughters of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Il canto s'attrista, perché?now provides the "missing link" between the operas of Gluck and Strauss, in which both the betrayed wife Klytämnestra and the seer Cassandra have their say.

English

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Cast

Crew

Ensemble