Euripides

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau’s opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly revolutionary duo – Jeanne Candel and Raphaël Pichon – get to grips with this work for the Opéra Comique.

The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story. Medea is called Anna in this version, a successful doctor who is trying to get on with her life after a forced confinement. She is willing to forgive the affair of her husband with a younger woman and to make a new start with him and the children. Soon it turns out that their plans for the future do not correspond. Anna is in danger of losing everything: her husband, her children, her career. She is cornered and sees only one way out.

Medea es expulsado de la región minera en el desierto de Atacama (Chile) y solo se le da un día para desaparecer. Pero en ese solo día, se le ocurre un plan de venganza. Para llevar a cabo este plan, que culminará con el asesinato de su propio hijo, Medea invoca su fuerza más profunda, invocando el poder del género femenino.

Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Schauspiel Frankfurt.

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric production. Oreste is driven by the Furies to atone for killing his mother Clytemnestre. When he and his companion Pylade are shipwrecked on the island of Tauride, the king Thoas demands they be sacrificed. At the center of the drama is Iphigénie, Oreste’s long-lost sister. Forced to live among her enemies, she holds the lives of the captives in her hands—unaware that one of them is her brother. (Iphigénie en Tauride is performed in an adaptation of the 1779 Paris version edited by Gerhard Croll, by arrangement with Bärenreiter.)

A talented ensemble cast bring Euripides masterpiece to life. The Bacchae (also called The Bacchants or Bakchai in Greek) tells the story of the god Dionysus (played by Mia Perovetz) who comes to the city of Thebes disguised as a charismatic young man accompanied by a throng of erotic female maenads. The immortal play is a study in fanatical religions and confronts the personal balance that we all must find between order and spontaneity.

Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.

The movie comprises three vignettes of actors-speaking-to-audience, two of which are monologues. All three revolve around violence or murder.

The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.

Adaptación televisiva de la célebre tragedia griega de Eurípides (431 a. C.). Von Trier se sirvió de un guión escrito por Carl Theodor Dreyer para una película que nunca llegó a rodar. Después de la expedición de Jasón y los Argonautas, el héroe se casa con Medea, pero algunos años después decide abandonarla a ella y a sus hijos para casarse con Glauce, la hija del rey Creonte. Cuando el rey decide expulsar a Medea, ésta urde un perverso plan de venganza.

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.

Adaptación de la tragedia griega de Eurípides "Ifigenia en Aulide". Antes de la guerra de Troya, cuando las tropas aqueas se preparaban para zarpar de Áulide con destino a Troya, la ausencia de viento retuvo a los mil navíos griegos en el puerto. Un adivino reveló que Artemisa, la diosa de la caza, estaba furiosa porque los griegos habían matado a uno de los animales que ella protegía. La única manera de apaciguar a la diosa y obtener vientos favorables para zarpar era sacrificar a Ifigenia, la hija de Agamenón, quien se vio sumido en un trágico conflicto moral.

Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece ...

Tras la caída de la ciudad de Troya en manos de los ejércitos aqueos, las mujeres troyanas deberán afrontar el doloroso hecho de ser convertidas en esclavas y trasladadas a las cortes de los príncipes griegos.

Adi (Admitos) is under the protection of Apollo, the son of a man with money and relationships. The two are in jail, suspected of murder, but without evidence. So they are released. Adi loves Claudia (Alkeste), the domestic partner of his arch enemy, who finds death in a - metaphysical - duel. The power of Apollo is with Adi, who subsequently even finds out how to overcome death, after the apocalypse.

Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text. Filmed by Brian De Palma.

Adaptación de la tragedia griega de Eurípides en la que Pasolini muestra la trágica confrontación entre dos culturas incompatibles: el mundo mágico e irracional de Medea y el mundo racional de Jasón. Supuso la única incursión en el cine de la gran diva de la ópera Maria Callas.

The third part of Euripides’ trilogy relates Orestes’ confrontation with the people of Argos after killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, and his struggle to defend himself and his heritage – with the support of his sister, Electra.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers Louis Falco, Anna Duncan, and Nicolas Magallanes as Dionysius, Agave, and Pentheus respectively, and the experimental filmmakers Charles Levine, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Lloyd Williams and William Wood as the Chorus of Cameras. The film's score was by Teiji Ito.

Adaptación de la tragedia griega "Electra" de Eurípides. Tras una victoriosa campaña en la guerra de Troya regresa a Argos el rey Agamenón. Durante su ausencia su esposa Clitemnestra, madre de Electra y Orestes, se ha enamorado del cruel Egisto, conviertiéndole en su amante, y entre ambos preparan el asesinato del noble monarca...

Fedra es la esposa de Thanos, un millonario armador griego que antes estuvo casado con una mujer inglesa con la que ha tenido un hijo, Alexis, que vive en Londres, lejos del padre. Cuando Thanos se entera que Alexis ha dejado sus estudios, ruega a Fedra que viaje a Inglaterra para persuadir al joven de sus planes. Fedra no quiere viajar, porque sabe que el muchacho siente aversión por ella, aunque finalmente cederá ante la insistencia de su marido. El encuentro es muy distinto al imaginado: ambos simpatizan súbitamente y pronto serán presas de una violenta pasión.

The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.