Philoktet

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Philoctet

Music theater based on the dramas by Sophocles,

Heiner Müller and André Gide (2022) ^WP

Composition commission by Musik der Jahrhunderte

Composition and stage concept: Samir Odeh-Tamimi

Co-direction: Rosabel Huguet

Libretto: Claudia Pérez Iñesta

Collaboration Costume: Indra Nauck

Philoktet: Daniel Gloger (countertenor)

Neoptolemos: Martin Nagy (tenor)

Odysseus: Andreas Fischer (bass)

Intruder and Chorus: Guillermo Anzorena (baritone)

Greek Chorus: Johanna Vargas (soprano), Susanne Leitz-Lorey (soprano), Truike van der Poel (mezzo-soprano)

Zafraan Ensemble

Miguel Perez Inesta (double bass clarinet), Daniel Eichholz (percussion), Anna Viechtl (harp), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Emmanuelle Bernard (violin), Josa Gerhard (viola), Zoé Cartier (cello), Beltane Ruiz Molina (double bass)

Andrei Cucu, sound direction and electronics

Duration: approx. 70′

»Man, living among others, is incapable, incapable of pure and truly selfless action. I, on this island, follow myself, understanding, day by day less Greek, day by day more human…«

(André Gide: Philoctet or the Treatise of the Three Kinds of Virtue. 1904)

»Philoctet is an excluded, an insulted, a potential avenger, in other words, we would say today: potentially a terrorist.«

(Etel Adnan: Notates on the Killing of Philoktet in Heiner Müller. 2004.)