Overview

• Critics have lauded the production’s exceptionally slow-motion pacing for transforming static moments into a continuous dramatic puzzle
• Under Susanna Mälkki, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester lends Fauré’s impressionistic score stronger contours that heighten its symbolic and emotional depth
• Raimund Orfeo Voigt’s split-stage design alternates between a stark Greek ruins hall and boxed Ithacan interiors to embody themes of waiting and doubling
• Victoria Karkacheva’s poised Pénélope and Brandon Jovanovich’s weathered Ulysses have received acclaim for their nuanced and complementary portrayals
• After its July 18 premiere at Munich’s Prinzregententheater, the opera continues on July 21, 23, 26 and 29 as part of the festival’s 150th anniversary season