For Handel’s Admeto, Oscar-nominated film director Doris Dörrie – winner of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s prestigious Herald Angel Award – returns to her beloved subject of Japan. In vividly coloured and brilliantly realized set pieces, one of Handel’s most popular operas receives a stunning transformation into the stylishly ritualized world of samurai culture.

“It’s brilliantly played by the period-instrument FestspielOrchester Göttingen, conducted with fine sensibility and sensuality by Nicholas McGegan” -The Times

“Handel would have enjoyed this enchanting shadow theatre.” - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“In Doris Dörrie’s production … 200 minutes of music fly by.” - The Times

Bonus: Baroque and Butoh

Cast:
- Admeto: Tim Mead
- Alceste: Marie Arnet
- Ercole: William Berger
- Orindo: Andrew Radley
- Trasimede: David Bates
- Antigona: Kirsten Blaise
- Meraspe: Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Mamu Dance Theatre
Solo dance and choreography: Tadashi Endo
Stage director: Doris Dörrie

Sound format: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0
Picture: 16:9, HD
Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French / Bonus: English
Booklet: English, German, French
Total running time: 202 mins (Opera: 181 mins + Bonus: 21 mins)