Handel: Xerxes (Serse)

Synopsis

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).

Main Cast

Louise Alder

Atalanta

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Gaëlle Arquez

Xerxes

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Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Amastre

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Brandon Cedel

Ariodate

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Thomas Faulkner

Elviro

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Elizabeth Sutphen

Romilda

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Lawrence Zazzo

Arsamene

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Crew

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