The opera, inspired by Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus – is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? – bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his cousin, King Pentheus, who leads a life marked by purity and asceticism, Dionysus preaches intoxicating excess and sensuality. Aware of the story’s political dimension that resonates in present day politics, Krzysztof Warlikowski brings one of his famed psychological stagings to the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. In the gigantic three-part set of Malgorzata Szczesniak the captivating tale unfolds like a film using split-screen techniques .
Krzysztof Warlikowski
Director
Tiziano Mancini
Director
W.H. Auden
Writer
Chester Kallman
Writer
Sean Panikkar
Dionysus
Russell Braun
Pentheus
Willard White
Cadmus
Nikolai Schukoff
Tiresias/ Calliope
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Agave/Venus
Kàroly Szemerèdy
Captain/Adonis
Vera-Lotte Böcker
Autonoe/Proserpine
Anna Maria Dur
Beroe
Rolsalba Torres Guerrero
Bassarid - Dancer
Battle of the Year67%
O'Dessa58%
Mo' Better Blues64%
Coda59%
Moonwalker70%
Hounddog64%
Grace Unplugged60%
Wild Style61%
Clika80%
The Pirate65%
One Chance66%
Teen Spirit60%
Song for Marion68%
Jailhouse Rock63%
Godspell66%
Forbidden Zone62%
Too Late Blues63%
Ruth & Boaz75%
Jersey Boys67%
Star!69%
