Name: Orestes
Start: 2023-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Erfurt

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Conductor

Alexander Prior

Stage director

Guy Montavon

Set designer

Hank Irwin Kittel

Dramaturge

Arne Langer

Singer

Kakhaber Shavidze

Agamemmnon

Siyabulela Ntlale

Aegistus

Ilia Papandreou

Clytemnestra

Brett Sprague

Orestes

Daniela Gerstenmeyer

Electra

Laura Nicole Nielsen

Cassandra

Candela Gotelli

Athena

Katja Bildt

Maid- The aged seeress of Apollo

Máté Sólyom-Nagy

Guard

Yuri Butakov

First old man

Jörg Rathmann

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Markus Baisch

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Cristiano Fioravanti

Daniel Nicholson

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Orestes (Theater Erfurt)

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Orestes Felix Weingartner

King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War. His wife Klytemnestra greets him feigning joy, but secretly she blames him for the death of her daughter Iphigenia. As prophesied by the Trojan seeress Cassandra, Clytemnestra kills her husband in order to ascend the throne of Argos with her lover Aegisthos.

Clytemnestra has obligated her daughter Elektra to keep watch over Agamemnon's tomb. There Elektra meets her brother Orestes who has returned home and tells him about his father's murder. After killing Aegisthus, Orestes does not spare his mother either. He flees from the spirits of revenge (Erinyen) and places his fate in the hands of the gods. Athena finally acquits Orestes, appeases the Erinyes, ending the cycle of murder and revenge.

Felix Weingartner was one of the most famous conductors of his time, but he also frequently composed symphonies, chamber music and stage works. For his opera, he chose Aeschylus' Oresteia , the oldest surviving stage trilogy in theater history. The opera Orestes was written not long before Strauss's much more radical Elektra , which is based on the same material and brought about 100 years of oblivion for Weingartner's nevertheless ambitious work. Both works, Elektra and Orestes , each conducted by General Music Director Alexander Prior, frame the "Greek Season" of the Theater Erfurt

König Agamemnon kehrt aus dem Trojanischen Krieg zurück. Freude heuchelnd begrüßt ihn seine Frau Klytaimnestra, doch insgeheim lastet sie ihm den Tod ihrer Tochter Iphigenie an. Wie von der trojanischen Seherin Kassandra prophezeit, tötet Klytaimnestra ihren Gatten, um mit ihrem Geliebten Aigisthos den Thron von Argos zu besteigen.

Klytaimnestra hat ihre Tochter Elektra zur dauernden Wache am Grab Agamemnons verpflichtet. Dort trifft Elektra auf ihren heimgekehrten Bruder Orestes und berichtet ihm vom Mord an seinem Vater. Nachdem er Aigisthos erschlagen hat, verschont Orestes auch die Mutter nicht. Er flieht vor den Rachegeistern (Erinyen) und legt sein Schicksal in die Hand der Götter. Athene spricht Orestes schließlich frei, besänftigt die Erinyen und beendet damit den Kreislauf von Mord und Rache.

Felix Weingartner war einer der berühmtesten Dirigenten seiner Zeit, trat aber häufig auch als Komponist von Sinfonien, Kammermusik und Bühnenwerken hervor. Für seine Oper wählte er mit der Orestie des Aischylos die älteste erhaltene Bühnentrilogie der Theatergeschichte. Die Oper Orestes entstand nicht lange vor der ungleich radikaleren Elektra von Strauss, die auf demselben Stoff basiert und für Weingartners dennoch ambitioniertes Werk über 100 Jahre der Vergessenheit mit sich brachte. Beide Werke, Elektra und Orestes, jeweils dirigiert von Generalmusikdirektor Alexander Prior, rahmen somit die „Griechische Spielzeit“ des Theaters Erfurt ein.

Deutsch

Orestes by Weingartner, From (2023/2023), Directed by Guy Montavon,, Conductor Alexander Prior, Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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