Organization

Singer

Tenor

Paul Curievici

Nick, the chauffeur

Mezzo-soprano

Sara Madeleine Swietlicki

OfGlen

Andrea Pellegrini

OfFred's Mother

Sarah Champion

Young OfFred

Choreographer

Lidia Wos

Offred before

Jacob Skov Andersen

Luke

Stage director

John Fulljames

Conductor

Jessica Cottis

Set designer

Chloe Lamford

Costume designer

Christina Cunningham

Lighting designer

Fabiana Piccioli

Video designer

Will Duke

Lydia Roscher

Hanna Hipp

OfFred

Soprano

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

Moira

Nina Sveistrup Clausen

Janine

Ofwarren

Hanne Fischer

Serena Joy

Ulrika Tenstam

Rita

Bass

Morten Staugaard

Commander X

Gert Henning-Jensen

The Doctor

Gisela Stille

Aunt Lydia

Royal Danish Opera

Orchestra

Det Kongelige Kapel

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

The Handmaid's Tale

Copenhagen

Denmark

Royal Danish Theatre

The Handmaid's Tale Ruders

Public

English

Danish

Approved

A global environmental catastrophe resulting in subsequent human infertility has created fertile ground for a coup where a religious terror group has seized power. Fertile women are now forced into pregnancy and to hand over their new-born children to the elite regime. If they rebel, they are sentenced to slavery and certain death

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s award-winning dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale was penned in 1985 and has since been adapted to film as well as an award-winning television series.Danish composer Poul Ruders’ opera with libretto by Paul Bentley remains hyper-current, now 22 years after its Danish world premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre, and new productions are now being staged at several of the world’s opera houses.“Atwood takes aim at her large neighbour to the south, the United States, where she is aware there are forces lurking that if they gained the power they intend, they would be no strangers to the idea of enforcing an iron-grip religious regime, which the fictional Gilead in the opera indeed represents,” Ruders said in 2000.

The Handmaid's Tale by Ruders, From (2022/2022), Directed by John Fulljames,, Conductor Jessica Cottis, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark

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