Lille Opera
Orfeo
MonteverdiIntroduction
After Passion and Medea by Pascal Dusapin, the choreographer Sasha Waltz has chosen to deliver her version of Monteverdi’s Orfeo: she freely mixes the living and the dead, and summons to the stage a maelstrom of singers, dancers and instrumentalists, including Charlotte Hellekant, Georg Nigl and the Berlin Vocalconsort, accompanied by the Freiburger Barockconsort.
Cast
Opera by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
based on a libretto of the poet Alessandro Striggio
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Conductor Torsten Johann
Direction and choreography Sasha Waltz
Sets Alexander Schwarz
Costumes Beate Borrmann
Lighting Martin Hauk
Video Tapio Snellman
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With
La Musica / Euridice Anna Lucia Richter
Orfeo Georg Nigl
La Messagiera / La Speranza Charlotte Hellekant
Caronte Douglas Williams
Proserpina Luciana Mancini
Plutone Konstantin Wolff
Ninfa / Pastore 1 Cécile Kempenaers
Apollo / Eco / Pastore 4 Julián Millán
Pastore 2 / Spirito Kaspar Kröner
Pastore 3 / Spirito Kevin Skelton
Pastore 5 / Spirito Hans Wijers
Freiburger BarockConsort
Chœur Vocalconsort Berlin
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Extras
Exhibition
Mythology and illustrated books in the 20th century,
Precious books from the LaM collections, Villeneuve d’Ascq.
In the Petits Salons.
Saturday 21 may
Meeting with the team of artists
following the performance. Free admission.
Saturday 21 may
Café philo
« Le Pouvoir de la musique » with Bernard Sève and François Frimat.
Place to be specified.
Price
69/49/30/13/5€
Duration
±2:30 with intermission
Langage
Sung in Italian, overhead subtitles in French
Production
Sasha Waltz & Guests production
Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Bergen International Festival and Opéra de Lille coproduction.
Sponsorship
With the support of the CIC Nord Ouest, principal patron of the season
With the sponsorship of Crédit Agricole Nord de France.
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Principal patron of the season, the CIC Nord Ouest provides its specific support to two lyric productions: Il Trovatore and L’Orfeo.
