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The premiere of Fingal owes its overwhelming success not only to the fine restrained sober regie by Marc Krone, but also to the excellent contributions of the powerful soloists Marcel van Dieren and Franka van Dommelen.


The story: Fingal is an opera written by Edward Krug. The score was lost during the bombing of Dresden in World War II.
Composer and musicologist Martyn Smits recomposed the opera from the surviving piano reduction.
During a trip through Morwen, Starno, king of Lochlin, engages in a fierce battle with it’s king Fingal.
Fingal defeats Starno and takes him prisoner.
Magnanimously he grants Starno freedom and let him sail back to his homeland Lochlin.
Starno however feels humiliated - he would have preferred to die in battle – and decides to lure Fingal to Lochlin and to kill him. He invites his opponent to a party and offers him the hand of his daughter Agandecca.
Fingal, already fervently in love with Agandecca, doesn’t doubt for a moment. He sails to Lochlin to celebrate the bridal party and bring Agandecca back to Morwen as his wife.
At a hunting party Starno tries to kill Fingal, but when he aims at his rival Agandecca jumps in front of him, making Starno to kill his own daughter.

Orkest	Martyn Smits
Regie, licht en decor	Marc Krone
Fingal	Marcel van Dieren
Agondecca	Franka van Dommelen
Fingals Mannen	Mannenkoor Concordia

Speelperiode 2008-2009