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    Dusapin's Penthesilea: La Monnaie

Dusapin's Penthesilea: La Monnaie

About the Event

Inspired by the eponymous tragedy by Kleist, Penthesilea is a complex and deadly game of love and hate between Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons, and Achilles. Pascal Dusapin composes a modern score of tragic madness.

In Kleist's version of this myth, Achilles does not kill Penthesilea, but vice versa : In a moment of tragic despair she tears apart the one she loves with her teeth. In his seventh opera, Pascal Dusapin includes a quote from Christa Wolf: "Thus begins the modern era and it is not beautiful."

Musical direction: Ludovic Morlot
Stage director: Pierre Audi
Set design: Berlinde De Bruyckere
Lights: Jean Kalman
Costumes: TBA
Video: Mirjam Devriendt
Dramaturgy: Krystian Lada
Choir direction: Martino Faggiani

Penthesilea: Natascha Petrinsky
Prothoe: Marisol Montalvo
Achilles: Georg Nigl
Odysseus: Werner Van Mechelen
Oberpriesterin: Eve‐Maud Hubeaux

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

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