Performance

Venue	Festival Theatre
	Also: Studio
Town	Edinburgh
County	Edinburgh
From	28th August 2009
To	31st August 2009
When	19:15
Prices	From £14.00. To £64.00.
Festival Theatre (V600)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Admeto, re'di Tessaglia (Admeto, King of Thessaly)

Work:: Admeto, re'di Tessaglia (Admeto, King of Thessaly) (S979449951)

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.

Music

Handel

Production:: (T410796724)

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

Listing:: L01182399850

Edinburgh International Festival

Production details

Staged production sung in Italian with English supertitles. Duration 3 hours 30 minutes approx. Edinburgh International Festival

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