Ritter Roland by Haydn, So. 22 Mai 2016, Ab (2016/2016), Unter der Regie von Jetske Mijnssen,, Dirigat Gianluca Capuano, Theater Winterthur, Winterthur, Schweiz

Orlando paladino To this day, Joseph Haydn's opera compositions are inferior to his instrumental works, although he experimented in the field of music theater with particularly bold, surprising and adventurous sounds. In his Orlando paladino , a "heroic-comic" story based on Ariosto's epic epic Orlando furioso, there are a wide variety of characters from a medieval fantasy world: the love-mad, jealous Orlando pursues Princess Angelica and her lover Medoro, the quarrelsome Rodomonte wants himself duel with Orlando, the shepherdess Eurilla and Orlando's squire Pasquale fall in love and the sorceress Alcina pulls the strings of the story. Dutch director Jetske Mijnssen focuses entirely on the interpersonal conflicts of these crazy staff, who regularly get together in a nocturnal drunken mood, and shows how modern the questions that Ariost's epic raises are. For the demanding main roles we were able to win, among others, Jane Archibald as Angelica, Michael Spyres as Orlando and Mauro Peter as Medoro for our Zurich revival.