Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Georg Arssenij Bochow

Human Frailty

Bass

Oliver Luhn

Time

Soprano

Heike Porstein

Fortune

Emma Moore

Cupid

Sayaka Shigeshima

Penelope

Melanto

Tenor

Jong-Kwueol Lee

Jupiter

Andreas Koch

Neptune

Taejun Sun

Ulysses

Minerva

Alik Abdukayumov

Eumetes

Walter Farmer Hart

Telemachus

Antinous

Peisander

Stage director

Nina Gühlstorff

Conductor

Gerd Amelung

Costume designer

Marouscha Levy

Set designer

Choreographer

Hermann Heisig

Dramaturge

Lisa Astrid Mayer

Hans-Georg Wegner

Chorus master

Jens Petereit

Gevorg Aperánts

Eurimaco

Countertenor

Amphinomus

Alexander Günther

Irus

Uwe Eikötter

Philipp Meierhöfer

Darrel Mills

First phaeacian

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Italian

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -  (The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland)

Weimar

Germany

Deutsches Nationaltheater

Großes Haus

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Monteverdi

Public

The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland

German

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Penelope is in mourning - her beloved Odysseus has been missing for 20 years. Courted by power-hungry suitors, she firmly holds on to the hope that her husband will one day return. When Odysseus actually stranded on Ithaca, he faces perhaps the most difficult task after his famous odyssey - to recapture his own homeland.

In doing so, he not only has to assert himself against earthly enemies, he has also become a political issue among the gods: While the offended Neptune wants to prevent Odysseus from returning home at all costs, Minerva supports the hero with cunning. On the way to the goal, those involved do not shy away from violence.

Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote the »Homecoming of Odysseus« at the proud age of 73, opens his work with »human frailty« and contrasts it with time, love and fate. The gripping drama about timeless allegories and the mechanisms of power is staged by Nina Gühlstorff, who puts the "hero story" to the test.

Nina Gühlstorff, who is known in Weimar for her productions of "Così fan tutte", "Otello", the "Magic Flute" and "Eugen Onegin", among other things, stages the gripping drama. In doing so, she focuses on the encounter between the aged couple.

Gerd Amelung, specialist in baroque opera, has worked at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, the Heidelberg and Koblenz theaters and the DNT, among others. The harpsichordist founded several ensembles with which he was represented at the Göttingen Handel Festival and the Thuringian Bach Weeks, among others.

Gentlemen of the opera choir sing. The Staatskapelle Weimar is playing.

English

The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland by Monteverdi, From (2021/2022), Directed by Nina Gühlstorff,, Conductor Gerd Amelung, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, Germany

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