“A performance of such rapturous, fantastic, colourful vitality that it snatches away the fog from your ears and eyes, and you experience nothing less than the birth of theatre.” [Die Zeit] Barrie Kosky’s powerful and colourful staging of Orpheus – one of last season's most popular productions – begins as a boisterous festival of music and love in an Arcadian paradise, going on to tell the story of Orpheus's journey through the underworld as a voyage to himself. The usual new instrumentation by the Uzbekistan composer Elena Kats-Chernin is also a colourful touch. “An unreal, magic world, artificial and enchanting at the same time – Dionysian.” [Berliner Zeitung]

2 hours 10 minutes
Introduction: 30 minutes before the beginning of the performance, Foyer