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

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Cast

Galatea

Patricia Janečková

Acis

Benedikt Kristjánsson

Damon

Patrick Grahl

Polyphemus

Tomáš Král

Coridon

Tomáš Lajtkep

Orchestra

Collegium Marianum

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