Hercules at Nationaltheater Mannheim

Many years traveled Hercules the unruly seas and conquered the most terrible creatures of Greek myths world; he was revered as a hero of humanity and had impact on women - and these are eventually that too soon prepare the deathbed him.

After thirty years of unremitting commitment to the Italian opera Handel whole creativeness applies 1741 the English oratorio until 1744 with Hercules again turns to an opera subject. The story takes on an a most unusual perspective. From the perspective of Hercules' wife Dejanira the events surrounding the return and the sudden death of the "Vanquisher of mankind" are described. To their pathological states of mind unfolds director and designer Nigel Lowery a universe between love and jealousy. Bernhard Forck, concertmaster of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Music Director of the Handel Festival Orchestra Hall, provides the specific Handel's orchestral sound.