The last tragedy of the Oresteia, the Eumenides begins at a climactic moment for the house of Atreus: Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the murder of his father Agamemnon and is persecuted by the Furies, savage and implacable female goddesses who punish anyone who has killed a relative.

Orestes' defender is Apollo.

In Athens, on the Areopagus, before the goddess Athena, a trial is held in which the rights of the mother and the father, of the feminine and the masculine, are compared with two points of view that still often clash today.

 

Dramaturgical direction Elisabetta Matelli

Stage direction Christian Poggioni

Re-staging Eri Çakalli

Music Paolo Tortiglione

Chorus Lucia Amarilli Sala

Set design Claudia Fichera