Niobe, Regina Di Tebe
From: Thursday, 23rd September 2010
To: Sunday, 3 October 2010
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Synopsis
Niobe boasts to the gods and is punished with the death of all her children and her transformation to a stone statue condemned to weep for eternity.
Our Review:
26 September 2010
When Thomas Hengelbrock, director and founder of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, rediscovered and conducted Niobe for the Schwetzingen Festival in 2008 the Royal Opera House took the unusual step of offering the production a London stage. It was a brave and uncharacteristically adventurous decision, which reverses their previous low-key approach to Baroque music.
Niobe’s story is not a happy one; she is the historical figure of mourning whose arrogance cost her dearly as, ultimately, her defiance of the Gods led to the slaughter of her children. In this retelling, based on the Metamorphoses of Ovid, neither composer Agostino Steffani or librettist Luigi Orlandi shy away from the cruel aspects of this tale so that the opera offers few opportunities for the quick-humour that modern audiences enjoy.
One reason for this is that Steffani was writing for the court, not for the public, which largely excused the need for ti...
Cast
Veronique Gens (Niobe)
Jacek Laszczkowski (Anfione)
Lothar Odinius
Delphine Galou
Amanda Forsythe
Alistair Miles
Creative
Steffani (Music)
Royal Opera House (Producer)
Thomas Hengelbrock (Conductor)
Lukas Hemleb (Director)
Raimund Bauer (Design)
Raimund Bauer (Lighting)
Andrea Schmidt-Futterer (Costume)
Thomas Stache (Choreographer)
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