Event listing: Belshazzar | Opernhaus | Event is in the past

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OpernhausSechseläutenplatz 1, Zurich, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland

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Performers

Zurich Opera
Laurence Cummings	Conductor
Sebastian Baumgarten	Director
Barbara Steiner	Set Designer
Christina Schmitt	Costume Designer
Elfried Roller	Lighting Designer
Hannah Dörr	Video
Claus Spahn	Dramaturgy
Lina Dambrauskaite	Soprano
Justyna Bluj	Soprano
Katia Ledoux	Contralto
Thomas Erlank	Tenor
Wojciech Rasiak	Bass
Janko Kastelic	Choirmaster / chorus director
Zurich Opera Chorus
Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich
Mauro Peter	Tenor	Belshazzar
Layla Claire	Soprano	Nitocris
Jakub Józef Orliński	Countertenor	Cyrus
Tuva Semmingsen	Mezzo-soprano	Daniel
Evan Hughes	Bass-baritone	Gobrias

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Berlin, Germany

A cauldron of confusion: Handel’s Belshazzar staged in Zürich

Sarah Batschelet, 3rd November

Lawrence Cummings conducts Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla in Handel’s oratorio-cum-opera, Belshazzar. The music was celestial; the staging was a bombastic mix of excess and vaudeville.

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