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synopsis Act 2 Evening I Do you remember who you were? Artemis, goddess of the hunt, has brought Hippolytus to her grove in Nemi in Italy. With an assistant, she works on Hippolytus’s body to bring him back to life. Once they succeed, she locks him up in a cage and gives him a new name: Virbius. Phaedra rises from the Underworld as a bird-being and mocks Hippolytus as the work and pet of the goddess. II When do the dead approach you, Hippolytus? A storm approaches the grove in Nemi. Aphrodite appears in a ring of light and demands the right of the gods: Hippolytus belongs in the Underworld. Phaedra and Aphrodite circle Hippolytus’s cage in order to seize him. They sing of death, and both lure Hippolytus like an animal. Artemis catches Hippolytus in a net and hides him in a safe cave. 6 III In the Mirror Distraught, Hippolytus crouches before a spring in the cave. He examines his reflection in the water. He does not know who he is. He dreams of a faraway garden. Phaedra strolls toward him like a barmaid to lure him into the Underworld. Hippolytus, frightened and confused, pushes Phaedra away and struggles out of the cave. An earthquake shakes the cave. IV King of the Forest Hippolytus has risen as King of the Forest. He wanders through the grove in Nemi. What has happened and will happen, becomes blurred in a dance. Synopsis © Christian Lehnert
Opern-Agentur Tamara Herzl About tonight’s performers Michael Boder conductor Michael Boder studied at the Hamburg College of Music before moving to Florence, where he was an assistant to Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta. He worked with Michael Gielen at Frankfurt Opera (1984–8), where he took on his first production. He became principal conductor of Basle Opera before he was 30 and has worked at the opera houses of Cologne, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin, Dresden and Zurich, the National Theatre in Tokyo, San Francisco Opera and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, among others. His repertoire ranges from Mozart to contemporary music, and he has given the premieres of Penderecki’s Ubu Roi at the Munich Opera Festival, Pascal Dusapin’s Fist, as well as Aribert Reimann’s Das Schloss at the Deutsche Opera Berlin, and the premiere of tonight’s piece in Berlin in 2007. Michael Boder made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1995 with Berg’s Wozzeck, followed by a new production of Lulu. He has also given the Austrian stage premiere of Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter, together with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi; the premiere of Der Riese vom Steinfeld by Friedrich Cerha, commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, as well as revivals of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Enescu’s Oedipe. He is also very active in the concert hall, directing such orchestras as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin, Czech, Hamburg and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Last season Michael Boder became principal conductor of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. about the performers John Mark Ainsley tenor John Mark Ainsley was born in Cheshire, began his musical training in Oxford and continues to study in London with Diane Forlano. A highly versatile concert singer, his international engagements include appearances with the London, Boston and San Francisco Symphony orchestras, and the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonic orchestras under, among others, Bernard Haitink, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle, as well as with early music ensembles such as Le Concert d’Astrée under Emmanuelle Haïm and Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. On the operatic stage he has sung Don Ottavio at Glyndebourne under Rattle, at Aix-en-Provence under Claudio Abbado, and for his Royal Opera 7
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