Mendelssohn
Antigone

Orchestra e Coro
dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
conductor Francesco Lanzillotta
narrator Massimo Popolizio
Antigone Simonetta Solder
Kreon Christoph Hulsen
The Guard, The Servant, Chorus Leader Alessandro Budroni
Solos
Chorus Leader Patrizio La Placa bass*
Hyunmo Cho bass*
Quartet
Hyungkoo Kim, Federico Benetti basses I and II*
Federico Piermarini, Antonio Sapio tenors I and II*
chorusmaster Andrea Secchi

Mendelssohn
Antigone Incidental music for Sophocles’ tragedy

in collaboration with the Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale
German translation by Jacob Christian Donner
Adaptation of the spoken text by Gianni Garrera
*Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Greek tragedy meets Romanticism, reviving the theme of the conflict between divine law and human law: Antigone, daughter and sister of Oedipus, defies Creon to bury her brother Polynices, but is doomed to a tragic fate.
Among Sophocles’ most famous tragedies, Antigone (441 BCE) was musically interpreted by Mendelssohn in 1841, who captured its dramatic power by amplifying its pathos and ethical tension.
The Orchestra and Male Choir of Santa Cecilia are conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta, with Massimo Popolizio as the narrator.