Philippe Amand
Phaedra
Author: Philippe Amand
Performance space: Perelman Theater - Kimmel Center Philadelphia
Theatre company/company produced for: Opera of Philadelphia
Month & year of original production: June 2011
Description of items intended for exhibition:
Model
Drawing
Video clip
Project description:
Phaedra is a 'concert opera' in two-acts by Hans Werner Henze.
The libretto is by Christian Lehnert and deals in a highly innovative way with the story of Phaedra, whose love for her stepson Hippolytus triggers catastrophe. The first part of the opera tells this legend much as previously retold by Euripides, Racine and Sarah Kane. The second part, however, follows a mythological tradition alluded to by Ovid.Hippolytus, fatally wounded, is brought back to life by the goddess Artemis, and is given a new life under the name of Virbius. In this new existence, however, he is only able to experience his own consciousness in a fragmentary, kaleidoscopic way.
Artform:
Set Design
Lighting Design
Designers:
Set designer: Philippe Amand
Costume designer: Richard Sinclair
Lighting designer: Philippe Amand
Sound designer: Composer: Hanz Werner Henze
Digital video NA: Philippe Amand
Director/choreographer: Robert Driver
Other creative collaborators: Conductor: Corrado Rovaris
Image gallery
Phaedra 1
Production Photography - Philippe Amand
Phaedra 2
Production Photography - Philippe Amand
Phaedra 3
Production Photography - Philippe Amand
Phaedra 4
Production Photography - Philippe Amand
Phaedra 5
Production Photography - Philippe Amand
Phaedra 6
Production Photography - Philippe Amand