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Acis and Galatea
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Acis and Galatea

Jan 1, 2017
1h 0m
★ 0.0

Opera, Music, Theater, Puppets, Greek Mythology

Overview

On stage will be another, a puppet, theater, whose height and width allows soloists to move along with the puppets. And so Acis, Galatea, Damon and Coridon, who are later disturbed by giant Polyphemos, are here in the puppet world, here again in the real world, like puppets, while theirs emotions accompany baroque gestures. Singers inspired puppets and vice versa. Furthermore, there are things that a human being cannot, but the puppet so, for example, become a giant Cyclops …

Genres

Music
Romance
Adventure
Animation
Fantasy

Cast

Patricia Janečková

Galatea

Patricia Janečková

Benedikt Kristjánsson

Acis

Benedikt Kristjánsson

Patrick Grahl

Damon

Patrick Grahl

Tomáš Král

Polyphemus

Tomáš Král

Tomáš Lajtkep

Coridon

Tomáš Lajtkep

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Orchestra

Collegium Marianum

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