Handel: Admeto

Handel: Admeto

196 mins | Music | Jan. 1, 2006

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skillful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Köhler's production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness, couching it in the convincing metaphor of a modern hospital.

Handel: Admeto

196 mins | Music | Jan. 1, 2006

Handel: Admeto
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skillful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Köhler's production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness, couching it in the convincing metaphor of a modern hospital.
Producers Arthaus Musik
Original title Admeto
Directors Axel Köhler, Ute Feudel
Writers

Cast

Matthias Rexroth

as Admeto, King of Thessaly

Romelia Lichtenstein

as Alceste, wife of Admeto

Mechthild Bach

as Antigona, a Trojan princess

Tim Mead

as Trasimede, brother of Admeto

Raimund Nolte

as Hercules

Melanie Hirsch

as Orindo, a courtier

Gerd Vogel

as Meraspe, confident of Antigona

Howard Arman

as Oracle of Apollo (Voice)

Axel Köhler

as Oracle of Apollo (Voice)