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Classical myth turns Samurai - Admeto's classical Greek world is re-imagined as the world of the Japanese samurai, very formal, with a strict hierarchy and many rules. Love, jealousy, rage - If you go to hell you probably don't come back the same person. As Alceste returns from Hades to the world of the living, by her side is her spirit-ghost, played by the famous Butoh dancer Tadashi Endo. He interprets her conflicting emotions of love, jealousy and rage until the very end when Alceste is reunited with Admeto and they leave to live happily ever after. The spirit-ghost reminds us in a last dance that we are always accompanied by our shadow from Hades.

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Music: Handel

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Archive listings for Admeto, re'di Tessaglia (Admeto, King of Thessaly) (2009)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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Staged production sung in Italian with English supertitles. Duration 3 hours 30 minutes approx.Company Festspiel Orchester Gottingen. Conductor Nicholas McGegan. Director Doris Dorrie. Design Bernd Lepel. Costume Bernd Lepel. Choreographer Tadashi Endo. Lighting Linus Fellbom. Performer Tim Mead (Admeto). Performer Marie Arnet (Alceste). Performer Kirsten Blaise (Antigona). Performer David Bates (Orindo). Performer Andrew Radley (Trasimede). Performer William Berger (Ercole). Performer Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe). Performer Tadashi Endo (Solo dancer). Company Mamu Dance Theatre.

28 Aug 09 to 31 Aug 09

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh :: V600
listing details L01182399850

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