Xerxes - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Xerxes

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23.01.2019 , Wednesday

19:00 

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Opernhaus Düsseldorf,Heinrich-Heine-Allee 24 40213 Düsseldorf

In Georg Friedrich Handel’s opera the Persian King Xerxes’ campaigns of conquest are not directed at foreign territories but at a woman he cannot possess. ...

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Product Name Price Qty
Xerxes (Premium)
€121.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe A)
€103.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe B)
€95.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe C)
€82.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe D)
€69.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe E)
€55.00
Xerxes (Platzgruppe F)
€41.00
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INTERPRETEN
SERSE
Valer Sabadus
ARSAMENE
Terry Wey
AMASTRE
Katarina Bradic
ARIODATE
Torben Jürgens
ROMILDA
Heidi Elisabeth Meier
ATALANTA
Anke Krabbe
ELVIRO
Hagen Matzeit

In Georg Friedrich Handel’s opera the Persian King Xerxes’ campaigns of conquest are not directed at foreign territories but at a woman he cannot possess. The beautiful Romilda remains faithful to his brother Arsamene and denies the King her favours. Xerxes’ tactics, which he changes as often as his opulent costumes, allow his opponents little time to rest. This results in a “baroque Muppet Show,” as the celebrated Norwegian director Stefan Herheim describes his spectacular stage production, which begins with Xerxes’ famous aria “Ombra mai fu” and after a bewildering series of games of love and intrigue ends with the insight that life is a theatre in which one cannot always choose one’s own role.

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