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Orest

CONDUCTOR Michael Boder
DIRECTOR Marco Arturo Marelli
COSTUMES Falk Bauer
STAGE ASSISTANCE Mario Ferrara
 
Orest George Nigl
Menelaus Michael Laurenz
Apollo / Dionysos Daniel Johansson
Hermione Audrey Luna
Helena Laura Aikin
Elektra Ruxandra Donose
CONTENT
The Trojan War is over. Orestes killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the murder of his father Agamemnon, whom she perpetrated. The god Apollo commanded him this matricide, which is legitimate under his law.

1st scene

Now Orestes is tormented by inner voices and pursued by the Erinyes, the images of the past torment him and in his desperation he calls for Apollo. But he does not want to relieve him of his responsibility for schooling. Orestes should turn to his uncle Menelaus, who will soon come back from the battle to Argos. As a candidate for the throne of his murdered brother Agamemnon, he relied on peace in the city. So he would certainly also find reasons to acquit Orestes and to repay him.
Apollo turns into Dionysus.
With enigmatic words he tries to lure Orestes to great fame, then announces the returning Helena, the most beautiful of all the women he desires for himself

2nd scene

Helena, the wife of Menelaos returns from Troy. The once much admired but encountered everywhere on locked doors. Elektra, the sister of Orestes, curses her as the trigger of the war, which only brought suffering to the people. She would rather see Helena dead than alive.
According to the custom Helena wants to go to the grave of her sister Klytämnestra to offer their offerings there. But she is afraid of the hatred that you face in the city and asks now Elektra to do this in their place, but this indignantly rejects: Helena is to send her at war uninvolved daughter Hermione. During Helena's long absence, her small, abandoned child has blossomed into a young woman. To protect her mother she goes with the offerings to the grave. Elektra is fascinated by Hermione's innocent grace: "What you can not have, that's her!"

3.Szene

Menelaus comes and urges Orestes to flee with Elektra, for the Argos men have already passed sentence without him: death by stoning for both. Orestes reports that Apollo ordered him to do so, but now abandons him. For political reasons, Menelaus declared unable to help the two, he does not want to make enemies as a throne contender in the city. Cursing Menelaus, Orest collapses. Given the attitude of Menelaus Elektra increases in violent fantasies against him and Helena, again she calls for blood for a more just world. Before her fanaticism Menelaos escapes.

4th scene

Orest and Elektra are alone. Orestes yearn for love, for a different life and for an end to all violence. But for Elektra, there can be no love unless there is justice. While Orestes falls asleep, Elektra mourns her missed life and entrusts the night to her deep despair. Orestes dreams of the glories of Dionysus and asks himself whether he must continue to kill for it? Elektra uses the emotional state of Orestes to incite him to further murders, he should execute Helena and also kill Hermione.

Intermezzo and 5th scene

The war has left its deep mark on everyone, except Hermione. In the rubble field she complains about the destroyed world and the hateful, threatened society in which she has to live and asks herself how the cycle of action, revenge and judgment should be broken.
With her mother she wants to hide from the hatred of the world. Spurred on by Elektra, Orestes kills Helena. Horrified, Hermione confronts Orestes with the futility of his act. Both eyes meet.

Scene 6

The men from Argos come to execute the sentence. Elektra urges Orestes to kill Hermione as well. Spellbound by Hermione's gaze, he is incapable of action. Menelaos stops Elektra from killing Hermione herself. Dionysus appears and abducts Helena into the heavenly firmament. Before the blind eyes of the bystanders, Orestes denies the gods all further obedience. He resists Apollo's mission to enforce his patriarchal law in the city, and he is not interested in the fame that Dionysus offers him.
He refuses divine arbitrariness. Together with Hermione he wants to escape the paralysis under divine power. He sets out in search of a self-determined life. The gods can not hold him anymore.

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