Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids (2019)
2019 · 2h 45m · Music
Genres: Music
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.
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski, Tiziano Mancini
Writers: W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman
Music by: Hans Werner Henze
Cast
Sean Panikkar as DionysusRussell Braun as PentheusWillard White as CadmusNikolai Schukoff as Tiresias/ CalliopeTanja Ariane Baumgartner as Agave/VenusKàroly Szemerèdy as Captain/AdonisVera-Lotte Böcker as Autonoe/ProserpineAnna Maria Dur as BeroeRolsalba Torres Guerrero as Bassarid - DancerMore like this
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