In 2022, Teodor Currentzis fulfilled a dream by founding the ‘Utopia’ orchestra. The members come together from various international orchestras for ‘Utopia’ concerts on a project-by-project basis. One of them is Henry Purcell's semi-opera ‘The Indian Queen’, a work set in Central America that deals with fictional conflicts between the Aztecs and the Incas in a prologue and five acts, can be heard in the Philharmonie.
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The Indian Queen
Together with director Peter Sellars, Currentzis has created a version that supplements the original score with songs, arias and sacred choral pieces by Purcell and places them in a new setting.
Using passages from Rosario Aguilar's novel ‘La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies’ (‘The White Girl and the Birds without Feet’), the British-French actress Amira Casar narrates the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the perspective of three women.
Purcell: ‘The Indian Queen’ - semi-opera in one prologue and five acts (1695)
Libretto based on the play of the same name by John Dryden and Robert Howard in a version by Peter Sellars (2013/2016) (concert performance)
- Jeanine De Bique, Teculihuatzin / Doña Luisa
- Dennis Orellana, Hunahpú
- Andrey Nemzer, Ixbalanqué
- Nicholas Newton, Maya Shaman
- Amira Casar, narrator
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Utopia Orchestra & Choir
Teodor Currentzis, conductor
Dates
February 2025
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