Médée

Sobre o Evento

Opera in three acts (1797)

Music by Luigi Cherubini
Libretto by François Benoît Hoffmann
Adapted from Euripides

Performed in French with German surtitles

Conductor Fabio Luisi
Director Torsten Fischer
Set designs Herbert Schäfer
Costume designs Andreas Janczyk
Lighting Kurt Schöny

Médée Iano Tamar
Créon Olaf Bär
Dircé Henriette Bonde‐Hansen
Jason Zoran Todorovich
Neris Birgit Remmert
Companion of Dircé Petra Simková

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Chorus director: Erwin Ortner)

Disappointed love, desperation, jealousy, revenge, infanticide – all this is contained in the ancient saga of Medea, that has lost none of its fascination down the centuries. Countless dramatists and writers such as Euripides, Grillparzer, Hans Henny Jahnn and Christa Wolf have written about this imposing female character. One of the highlights of the tale’s interpretation is without doubt Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 opera, that convincingly portrays the emotional restlessness of Medea’s inwardly torn personality. It is upon this work that Cherubini’s fame as an artist in founded.