Gawain: Salzburg Festival

演出简介

Sir Harrison Birtwistle's opera 'Gawain' will be performed at the Salzburg Festival.

Birtwistle's work is based on the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

On Christmas evening, the Green Knight appears at King Arthur's Castle and challanges any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. The young Gawain accepts and beheads him with his blow, at which the Green Knight stands up, picks up his head and reminds Gawain of the appointed time. In his struggles to keep his bargain, Gawain demonstrates chivalry and loyalty until his honour is called into question by a test involving Lady Bertilak, the lady of the Green Knight's castle.

With German and English subtitles.

Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor
Alvis Hermanis, Director and Stage Design
Eva Dessecker, Costume Design

Christopher Maltman, Gawain

John Tomlinson, The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert
Laura Aikin, Morgan le Fay

Jennifer Johnston, Lady de Hautdesert

Jeffrey Lloyd‐Roberts, King Arthur

Elizabeth Atherton, Guinevere

Andrew Watts, Bishop Baldwin

Brian Galliford, A Fool


Salzburger Bachchor

ORF Radio‐Symphonieorchester Wien