- Approx. 1 hour 55 minutes without a break
- Interesting for people 16+
- The performance contains strong images, nudity and scenes with violent or sexual content that may offend the sensibilities of some viewers.
- In English, with German surtitles
Between dream and reality
The Belgian dance theater collective Peeping Tom stages Henry Purcell's opera as a surreal and highly emotional Gesamtkunstwerk. The mythological love story between the Queen of Carthage and the Trojan war returnee is combined here with the obsessive fantasy of a rich and powerful widow who identifies with the opera heroine Dido. Victim of an unattainable love, she confronts her existential loneliness in the evening of her life with destructive madness. Following its great success in Geneva, this visually powerful and moving production is now coming to Basel. The baroque orchestra La Cetra interprets Purcell's music, while the contemporary composer Atsushi Sakai expands the work with new compositions and lends the tragedy a mystical dimension. The Swiss soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis sings the role of Dido.
- Musikalische Leitung –
- Inszenierung –
- Bühne –
- Kostüme –
- Künstlerische Mitarbeit –
- Komposition und musikalische Konzeption –
- Lichtdesign –
Giacomo Gorini
- Chorleitung –
- Dramaturgie –
Clara Pons,Elise Boch
- Aeneas / Sailor –
- Dido / Sorceress / Spirit –
- Belinda / 1st Witch –
- 2nd Woman / 2nd Witch –
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Tänzer:innen –
Yi-Chun Liu,Brandon Lagaert,
- Chor des Theater Basel
- La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
- Statisterie Theater Basel
Thank you!
With the kind support of the patrons' circle and the L. & Th. La Roche Foundation
Co-production
A production of the Grand Théâtre de Genève in co-production with the Opéra de Lille and the Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg
Together with the dramaturgy department, the Basel Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner has been curating the book table for our plays for many years. Now this selection of books, CDs, DVDs, catalogues and sheet music is available at any time in the online shop. It's worth browsing regularly.
Mediathek
Of extraordinary aesthetic and symbolic power
What insanity. What a maelstrom. Go and watch and be excited!
An experience for many senses!
A play within a play with two parallel narrative levels, cinematic images, film-like scenes and a completely new interpretation of the opera character Dido.
When Peeping Tom directs, the result is overwhelming absurd theatre.
A modern, baroque vision that sweeps us away
What musicality, what energy!
You should definitely see this performance