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Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids (2019)
THE BASSARIDS (Trailer) | Composed by: Hans Werner Henze | Kent Nagano | Salzburger Festspiele
The opera, inspired by Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus – is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? – bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his cousin, King Pentheus, who leads a life marked by purity and asceticism, D...
9 cast members
Sean Panikkar
Russell Braun
Willard White
Nikolai Schukoff
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Kàroly Szemerèdy
Vera-Lotte Böcker
Anna Maria Dur
Rolsalba Torres Guerrero