Melis‐Jeles' The Bacchae: A World Premiere Opera

O wydarzeniu

Experience an opera sung in Ancient Greek, based on Euripides' final play, the Bacchae. Composer László Melis wrote this work especially for Palace of Arts Budapest.

Melis has created an exciting work both musically and dramatically, applying methods known from ancient Greek music while adhering to ancient Greek musical theory and both extant and reconstructed musical fragments from antiquity in the range of sounds employed. Director András Jeles strives to avoid realism of any kind, or even to map out the story. As he says, the dithyrambic chorus, in conveying Dionysian ecstasy, presents the audience with the illusion that they are intimate participants in a magical and frightening story couched in myth, casting them under its joyous and ecstatic musical spell.