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In a recital format, three singers perform the songs of the “Seconda Donna” and “Secondo Uomo", the unheroic if not always villainous plot functionaries in Handel's ORLANDO FURIOSO trilogy of the 1730s, in an abridged form.
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At the same time, projected onto a large screen in the background, ethnographic documentary material from people - similar to the singers - who talk about their fears, their worries. Gradually, the singers become characters without roleplay, while we identify the roots of a fear at the heart of Europe since the Enlightenment, Nietzsche‘s "unfinished problem of civilized."
I furiosi is a metatext recital that evolves into an experience that is a kind of “opera by stealth.”
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Funded with funds from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
MEZZO-SOPRANO: Anna Huntley
SOPRANO: Katherine Manley
CEMBALO: Gerd Amelung
BAROQUE RECORDER AND VIOLIN: Miako Klein
CELLO: Stefano Cucuzzella
DIRECTOR: Glen Sheppard
VIDEO: Fritz Polzer
STYLING: Derya Issever and Michael Sontag
