King Arthur

Love in times of war: Even before the legendary Britannian king founds his famous Round Table, he must liberate Saxon-occupied Britain. Victory for the war-weary Britons seems imminent when Arthur's adversary Oswald kidnaps the clever, blind Emmeline, Arthur's great love. A chase through an enchanted forest inhabited by ghosts begins. Arthur must make his way through a web of illusions to his final battle with Oswald.

The successful adaptation of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur by the renowned Upper Austrian author Ewald Palmetshofer continues the series of interdisciplinary theater productions at the Tiroler Landestheater. The new version of King Arthur "follows the plot structure of the original text, but attempts to enrich the characters and their areas of conflict from the present, to accentuate them anew and to free them from their historical patina", according to the author. Tyrolean composer Kenneth Winkler has undertaken a recomposition of the musical material, in which he reduces Purcell's music to its quintessence, rethinks it in combination with electronic textures and transfers it into a sound-technical setup that enables innovative possibilities of sound design.

At the Tiroler Landestheater, actors, singers and dancers search together for a way out of the labyrinth that seems to repeatedly lead people to cruel confrontations and violent conflicts. In a play with illusions, reality, myth and fairy tale flow into one another - poetically and truthfully.