Opera

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

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Date	Mon 14.08.2017
Time	18.30
Venue	Tiroler Landestheater
Introduction	One hour before the performance begins.
Duration	Approx. 3 hours und 30 minutes (incl. one intermission)

A production of Den Norske Opera & Ballett Oslo in cooperation with the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik

The groom disappears from the wedding dinner on the day of the wedding. The bride is waiting, together with the assembled wedding party. For days. Years. Penelope is convinced that Ulisse will return. The men among the wedding guests aren’t, and each of them wants to take the missing husband’s place at the bride’s side. After 20 years Ulisse does return, however. This is a modern interpretation of an ancient work of world literature without changing the plot. “ Director Ole Anders Tandberg takes the libretto very seriously, every single word of the text”, conductor Alessandro De Marchi commented, impressed with the production. De Marchi, too, takes every single note of the preserved score seriously, and he also takes the way music was played during Monteverdi’s lifetime into account. “At that time, musicians were still versed in the great art of improvising even the melody in counterpoint”, according to De Marchi. “This art has been lost.” This is why he added the phrases of all the melody parts which used to be improvised to the sheet music for the musicians. The musicians themselves will embellish the notes supplied by De Marchi. This will result in a richly colourful, blooming musical island that will be an expression of the waiting Penelope’s yearnings and the returning Ulisse’s deeds. Since Monteverdi did not set the entire libretto of “Ulisse” to music, other compositions of his will be incorporated in the piece to stage two more scenes that go well with the atmosphere of the other segments: the pulsating madrigal “Zefiro torna” and the lyrical “Lamento della Ninfa”, which bemoans the infidelity of a lover.

Production

Alessandro De Marchi

Musikalische Leitung

Academia Montis Regalis

Orchester

Ole Anders Tandberg

Regie

Erlend Birkeland

Bühnenbild

Maria Geber

Kostüme

Ellen Ruge

Licht

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Artists

Kresimir Spicer

Ulisse

Christine Rice

Penelope

David Hansen

Telemaco

Nina Bernsteiner

Giuno / L'Amore

Hagen Matzeit

Anfinomo / 1. Freier / L'humana fragilitá

Marcell Bakonyi

Antinoo

Francesco Castoro

Pisandro / 2. Freier

Ann-Beth Solvang

Minerva / La Fortuna

Carlo Allemano

Iro

Jeffrey Francis

Eumaio

Ingebjørg Kosmo

Ericlea

Vigdis Unsgård

Melanto

Petter Moen

Eurimaco

Halvor F. Melien

Giove

Andrew Harris

Nettuno / Il Tempo

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Preview

Tiroler Landestheater

Adress

Rennweg 2, 6020 Innsbruck

Information

Introduction

As an additional service, we offer a free introductory talk. Rainer Lepuschitz discusses aspects of the programme with the artists of the evening. The introduction starts one hour before the performance begins.

Accessibility

We would be glad to assist wheelchair users with informations regarding the ticket, parking space and access to the venues. Therefore please contact our office:
+43 512 571032-13, tickets@altemusik.at

Discounts

Visitors under the age of 30 -50%
Ö1 members -10%
ÖBB Vorteilscard -10% (only at the box office)

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