Following up on
The Magic Flute
and
Orpheus and Eurydice
, the
Yvette Bozsik Company
once again adapts a large-scale opera for the dance stage: on this occasion, it presents Carl Orff's 1949 musical setting of Sophocles' tragedy
Antigone
. In the drama that serves as the basis for the work, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hands. The king proclaims one brother a traitor, but Antigone plans to give him a proper burial in defiance of the king's orders. In this Ancient Greek drama, morality clashes with power as a sibling's affection and love attempt to overcome the law, but the story ends only in tragedy.
