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Castor et Pollux at Komische Oper Berlin

Dates: (5/11/2014 - 7/12/2014 )

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Komische Oper Berlin


Behrenstraße 55-57
Berlin,Berlin 10117

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Barrie Kosky’s celebrated production, winner of the most important British theatre prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, can now also be experienced at the Komische Oper Berlin with new staging. Rameau’s masterpiece about four people inextricably bound to one another by a web of jealousy, passion and hatred here features the musical director Christian Curnyn, a specialist in the sphere of baroque music, and it is the first time the work by this French composer has been full performed at one of the three big opera houses of Berlin.

Phébé loves Castor. But Castor loves Phébé’s sister.
Télaïre.Télaïre does love Castor… but she is promised to Castor's brother,Pollux, who also loves her. The conflict which begins Rameau’s opera is simplyimpossible to resolve. All four of the main characters are prisoners of their ownemotions. With their love, their hatred, their passion and their jealousy theymanage to create a prison for themselves, their very own hell on earth.

In his role as reformer of French opera, whose creative works surely influenced contemporaries such as Christoph Willibald Gluck, Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote a uniquely dense work which is in many respects far in advance of its day. It is not only that the dramatic structure of the opera has a truly modern character, with the plot moved along by a swift sequence of scenes. In addition, the musical structure, constantly focusing on the dramatic events, provides a very special harmony, and the seamless transitions between recitative, arioso and aria lends the drama an attraction which audiences find virtually impossible to resist.

Cast and Creative team for Castor et Pollux at Komische Oper Berlin

Crew
Musical direction
Christian Curnyn
Staging
Barrie Kosky
Guest stage and cotume designer
Katrin Lea Tag
Dramaturgy
Ulrich Lenz
Chorus
David Cavelius
Light design
Franck Evin
Cast
Télaïre
Nicole Chevalier
Phébé
Annelie Sophie Müller
Castor
Allan Clayton
Pollux
Günter Papendell
Jupiter
Alexey Antonov
Hohepriester des Jupiter
Bernhard Hansky
Mercure
Máté Gál
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