Handel: Admeto

Plot

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skillful application of imaginative theatrical digressions. Köhler's production at the Halle Opernhaus revisits a work that encompasses comedy, tragedy and almost absurd grotesqueness, couching it in the convincing metaphor of a modern hospital.

Cast

Matthias Rexroth

Admeto, King of Thessaly

Romelia Lichtenstein

Alceste, wife of Admeto

Mechthild Bach

Antigona, a Trojan princess

Tim Mead

Trasimede, brother of Admeto

Raimund Nolte

Hercules

Melanie Hirsch

Orindo, a courtier

Gerd Vogel

Meraspe, confident of Antigona

Howard Arman

Oracle of Apollo (Voice)

Axel Köhler

Oracle of Apollo (Voice)