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Orpheus: Komische Oper Berlin

About the Event

Follow the legendary musician, Orpheus, to the underworld and back in Monteverdi's opera: Composer Elena Kats‐Chernin has created a new and innovative instrumentation for the production at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Barrie Kosky’s powerful and colourful staging of Orpheus – one of our most popular productions – begins as a boisterous festival of music and love in an Arcadian paradise. It goes on to tell the story of Orpheus' journey through the underworld as a voyage into himself.

“An unreal, magic world, artificial and enchanting at the same time – Dionysian.” [Berliner Zeitung]

In German, with German, English, French, and Turkish subtitles. With an introduction in the foyer 30 minutes before the beginning of the performance.

Cast / Production

Conductor: André de Ridder, Matthew Toogood
Director: Barrie Kosky
Stage Design: Kathrin Lea Tag
Costumes: Katharina Tasch
Choreography: Otto Pichler
Dramaturgy: Ulrich Lenz
Choir: David Cavelius
Light: Alexander Koppelmann

Orpheus: Dominik Köninger
Eurydike: Julia Novikova, Talya Lieberman
Amor: Peter Renz
Sylvia/Prosperina: Theresa Kronthaler, Maria Fiselier
Charon: Stefan Sevenich
Pluto: Alexey Antonov, Önay Köse
Dancers:
Meri Ahmaniemi, Sonia Bartucelli, Alessandra Bizzari, Martina Borroni, Alexson Capelesso, Zoltan Fekete, Suleika Fichtner, Paul Gerritsen, Axel Baer, Nikos Fragkou, Marcell Pret

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