Handel: Xerxes (Serse)

Handel: Xerxes (Serse) (2018)


  • Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music, History
  • Release Date: 2018-09-14
  • Runtime: 3h 0min
  • Language: Italiano
  • Production Company: Unitel
  • Director: Tiziano Mancini

Summary

Xerxes is one of Handel’s latest and most frequently performed operas, famous for its marvelous opening aria ‘Ombra mai fu’. At the centre of the confusing tragicomedy, very loosely based upon the life of Xerxes I of Persia, is a powerful and lovesick royal eccentric, King Xerxes. Rising opera star Gaëlle Arquez in the title role of Xerxes ‘scintillates with her nimble, luminous mezzo-soprano’, singing ‘irresistibly beautiful, impassioned, furious – but never mean’ (Frankfurter Rundschau). Frankfurt’s excellent Opera and Museum Orchester contributes ‘all sorts of refinements’ to this ‘musical smash hit’ (Deutschlandfunk) and ‘In Frankfurt Tilman Köhler ensures a three-hour short abundant and furious banquett … a great evening of opera’ (Deutschlandfunk).

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  • Louise Alder

    as Atalanta
  • Gaëlle Arquez

    as Xerxes
  • Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

    as Amastre
  • Brandon Cedel

    as Ariodate
  • Thomas Faulkner

    as Elviro
  • Elizabeth Sutphen

    as Romilda
  • Lawrence Zazzo

    as Arsamene
Sound Constantinos Carydis Conductor
Writing Francesco Cavalli Original Concept
Directing Tilmann Köhler Stage Director
Sound Georg Friedrich Händel Music
Writing Nicolò Minato Original Story
Directing Tiziano Mancini Director

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