Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

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T01450502383 (EDINTFEST09) Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes approx. Staged production sung in Italian with English supertitles.Company Handspring Puppet Company. Company Ricercar Consort. Director William Kentridge. Other William Kentridge (animator). Design William Kentridge. Musical Director Philippe Pierlot. Design Adrian Kohler (puppets). Costume Adrian Kohler. Design Adrian Kohler (set). Director Luc de Wit (assistant). Lighting Wesley France. Performer Julian Podger (Ulisse/L'Humana Fragilita). Performer Romina Basso (Penelope). Performer Lluis Vilamajo (Telemacl/Pisandro). Performer Stephan MacLeod (Nettuno/Antinoo/Tempo). Performer Anna Zander (Fortuna/Melanto/Anfi nomo). Performer Valerio Contaldo )Eumete / Durimaco / Giove). Performer Adriana Fernandez (Amore/Minerva). Performer Busi Zokufa (puppeteer). Performer Adrian Kohler (puppeteer). Performer Basil Jones (puppeteer). Performer Jason Potgieter (puppeteer). Performer Enrico Wey (puppeteer).

23 Aug 09 to 26 Aug 09

King's Theatre, Edinburgh :: V601 listing details L1142614763

Details

Opera or Operetta :: Opera singers, musicians, half life-sized puppets and animated film come together to retell the Greek myth of Ulysses. In Kentridge's version of Monteverdi's opera, Ulysses is no longer in Ithaca. Instead, he lies reminiscing in a Johannesburg hospital bed. His romantic return to Penelope has become an epic dream that evokes not only classical Greece but also Monteverdi's Venice and contemporary South Africa. 'Ulysses is sick. He lies in bed, in twisted sheets, breathing shallowly. But Ulysses is made of wood...and the steady rise and fall of his breath as he lies racked by feverish dreams of reuniting with his wife is quiet testimony to the skill and detail of the production.' The New York Times

Music

Claudio Monteverdi