With this new production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Rakewell’s decent into hell is accompanied by a holy trinity: soloists with mozartian souls, an orchestra with a razor-sharp ability to cut to the heart of the score (the Orchestre de Picardie, with its new conductor, Arie van Beek) and a stage director, David Lescot, whose theatrical work has always shown an intense musical temperament.

Focus on russian painters, writers and composers at Opera de Lille, LaM and Théâtre du Nord.
Keep your ticket to get a preferencial rate for the Lanskoy retrospective at Lam (Villeneuve d’Ascq) and "Les âmes mortes" by Gogol at the Théâtre du Nord.

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Opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinski (1882-1971).
Libretto by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Simon Kallman.
Premiered in 1951 in Venice

Conductor Arie Van Beek
Stage director David Lescot
Assistant of the stage director Sophie Picon
Scenography Alwyne de Dardel
Costumes Sylvette Dequest
Lights Joël Hourbeight
Vocal coach Emmanuel Olivier

With
Alek Shrader / Tom Rakewell
Christiane Karg / Anne Trulove
Alan Ewing / Trulove
Christopher / Purves Nick Shadow
Frances Mc Cafferty / Mother Goose
Anne Mason / Baba-Turk
Alasdair Elliott / Sellem

Orchestre de Picardie
Choeur de l’Opéra de Lille - Direction Yves Parmentier

TU 11 OCTOBER 6 PM
The Russians in Paris
Writers, painters and musicians during the period between the two wars.
Conference in partnership with the LaM (Villeneuve d’Ascq),

Around the exposition "Lanskoy, a Russian painter in Paris" from 24/09/11 to 15/01/12.
Rotunda - Free admission, limited to availability of places,
 with reservation
one month in advance at 0820 48 900
 or billetterie@opera-lille.fr.

TU OCTOBER 8 PM
Evening of discovery
SPECIAL UNDER AGE 26
The evening includes a performance of Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress, at the exceptional ticket price of 5€, followed by a cocktail reception in the company of the artists and a presentation of the Opera’s 2011-2012 season.
Reserved for those under age 26 upon presentation of ID. 

Limited number of places. Reservation essential at 0820 48 9000

or at the ticket offices as of 10 September at 9 a.m.

TH 13 october 5 PM
An Encounter
with David Lescot presented by Françoise Objois at the Furet du Nord.

SA 15 OCTOBER 6 PM
Grands Défilés
The stage director Frédéric Tentelier and his company
La Barque introduce on preview Grands Défilés, theatrical and musical piece.
In partnership with Le Vivat d’Armentières.
Studio - Free admission, limited to availability of places,

with reservation one month in advance at 0820 48 9000 or billetterie@opera-lille.fr.

SU 16 OCTOBER AT 6:40
an encounter
with the artists following the performance.
Free admission without reservation, limited to availability of place.

WE 19 OCTOBER AT 6 PM
Suite in trio
Trio for violin, clarinet and piano from the Suite de L’Histoire of the soldat by Stravinsky, with the musicians of Ictus.
(Price 8€/5€)

Additional performances:
Lille Opera House: concert for schools on Tuesday 18 October at 10 a.m. , 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
LaM (Villeneuve d’Ascq): on Saturday 22 October at 4 p.m, concert preceded by a visit of the Lanskoy retrospective.