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Tenor (+1)

Bettina Scheuritzel

Queen / Bear

Singer

Puah Kriener

Princess / Jaguar

Actor (+1)

Philipp Manuel Rothkopf

Purcell

Soprano

Larisa Akbari

Zempoalla

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Alexander Scheuermann

Harpy

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Fernando Derks Bustamante

Costume designer

Video

Stage director (+1)

Natalia Ortiz

Matias Canales

Translator

Miriam Denger

Conductor

Chorusmaster (+1)

Jori Klomp

Stage director

Carlina Derks Bustamante

Daniel Cremer

Lighting designer

Dirk Sarach-Craig

Sound designer

Jose Luis Macias Paredes

Ilyari Derks Bustamante

Dramaturge

Kerstin Grübmeyer

Dramaturge (+1)

Isabelle Becker

Orchestra

Aachen Symphony Orchestra

Chorus

Aachen Theater Chorus

Eva Diederix

Spirits of the Air

Baritone (+3)

Ronan Collett

Condor

Evelyn Grünwald

Water Amazonas

Stefanie Rösner

Water Andes

Soprano (+1)

Antonella Schiazza

Line Lerho

Contralto (+2)

Jennifer Tani

Laia Vallés

Bass (+5)

David Howes

Soprano (+2)

Corinna Heller

A story about love and revenge, with a power-hungry "Queen of the Aztecs" at its center - that could be a summary of Henry Purcell's rarely performed baroque opera "The Indian Queen." The Ecuadorian artists and authors of the group "Colectivo Yama," Carlina Derks Bustamante and Natalia Ortiz, use Purcell's work as an opportunity to tell the story of the actual indigenous "queens" of their country: women have always led the indigenous resistance against colonial and neoliberal exploitation of people and nature. While the semi-opera by Purcell and its author John Dryden was a stereotypical plot about war and intrigue in an exotic setting, "The Indian Queens" is a powerful fable about resistance and the vision of successful coexistence - today's "Indian queens" have their say and their struggle is given a face. Purcell's music combines with a new text, traditional Andean music and baroque music with documentary footage, and opera with drama.

As part of our project AKZENT Barock! funded by »Neue Wege«, the funding program of the NRW KULTURsekretariat.

The Indian Queen (Indian Queen), Purcell

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