Kent Nagano conducts the new opera by Salvatore Sciarrino in Hamburg – culture

Antiquity lures, it supplies art and theater, does it still provoke? Whether Medea, Phaedra or Antigone, Orpheus or Odysseus – the gray heads of myth tremble on all screens and stages, the brutalities: failure, revenge, love, death. The opera itself is the myth that guarantees intoxication. This is how clairvoyant Salvatore Sciarrino, composer, presents his music theater in Hamburg

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