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Acis and Galatea (2017)

On stage will be another, a puppet, theater, whose height and width allows soloists to move along with the puppets. And so Acis, Galatea, Damon and Coridon, who are later disturbed by giant Polyphemos, are here in the puppet world, here again in the real world, like puppets, while theirs emotions accompany baroque gestures. Singers inspired puppets and vice versa. Furthermore, there are things that a human being cannot, but the puppet so, for example, become a giant Cyclops …

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Top billed cast

Patricia JanečkováGalatea
Benedikt KristjánssonAcis
Patrick GrahlDamon
Tomáš KrálPolyphemus
Tomáš LajtkepCoridon
Collegium MarianumOrchestra

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