Thoratorium (Klit/Nielson)

Musical Direction: Ari Benjamin Meyers


WP Mai 2002 // Den Anden Opera, Copenhagen // Athelas Sinfonietta

Music: Lars Klit
Libretto: Claus Beck-Nielsen
Director: Rolf Heim
Set Design: Sisse Jørgensen
With: Jesper Buhl, Randi Gislasson, Jens Bruno Hansen, Ole Hedegaard, Uffe Henriksen, Anne Kleinstrup, Søren Mulvad // Athelas Sinfonietta


An opera epos with a national hero.
THOR is the bankrobber who converts his prison to a highsociety. A terrorist who wants to remove the dirty, unclean and alien from our holy national ground. THOR becomes a front figure. A local hero. In the time of globalization the yearning for all which is narrowminded, original, pure and true grows. As well grows a great need for a hero! A half-god of act who shall come out from its exile, its prison, its cave and catch us and assemble us and lead us away from the borderless, away from the modern and back to the earth of our land.


...Left to compliment though, is the brilliant Athelas Ensemble with conductor Ari Benjamin Meyers...
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