Frances Pappas

Bluebeard’s Castle / De Temporum Fine Comoedia | 2022

CARL ORFF • DE TEMPORUM FINE COMOEDIA

Premiere July 26th, 2022 | Felsenreitschule | Salzburg Festival 2022



The Play of the End of Times — Vigilia (Final version 1981)
Libretto by Carl Orff using passages from the Sibylline Oracles and the Orphic Hymns

In Ancient Greek, Latin and German with German and English surtitles

Supported by the Carl-Orff-Stiftung

Salzburg Festival 2022
Sung in French with German and English surtitles

PERFORMANCE DATES

CREATIVE TEAM

Teodor Currentzis – Conductor 

Romeo Castellucci – Director, Sets, Costumes and Lighting 

Cindy Van Acker – Choreography 

Piersandra Di Matteo  – Dramaturgy 

Theresa Wilson Associate  – Costume Designer

Maxi Menja Lehmann – Assistant Director

Alessio Valmori – Assistant Set Designer

Marco Giusti Associate – Lighting Designer

CAST

Nadezhda Pavlova – Soprano

Taxiarchoula Kanati, Frances Pappas, Irini Tsirakidis – Mezzosoprano

Helena Rasker – Contralto

Gero Nievelstein, Christian Reiner – Speakers

Soloists of the musicAeterna Choir

ENSEMBLES

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

musicAeterna Choir

Bachchor Salzburg

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor