LO SPETTACOLO

Inspired by Beaumarchais, Mozart and Da Ponte's masterpiece, "The Marriage of Figaro", returns to the Paris Opera in Giorgio Strehler's legendary production, revised and restored by those who attended its birth: Ezio Frigerio, Humbert Camerlo and Maryse Flach.

Cherubino – cherub – is not a name bestowed at baptism. Mingling the sacred and the secular, it is an intractable contradiction, at once angel, child and Love itself. In paintings by Raphael and Titian, hovering blond cherubs accompany the Virgin on her Assumption. Fragonard cherubs, still hovering, make mischief, hiding behind a swing or laughing at the top of fountains. Apparently invisible to the other characters, they illuminate the canvas with love's smile, reminding us of our fatal need to love, the happiness it brings and its promise of pain.

With the finest Mozartians of our day, a great moment in the history of opera lives again at the Opera Bastille.

Philippe Jordan (A)/ Dan Ettinger (B), Conductor
Giorgio Strehler, Stage director and lighting
Humbert Camerlo, Realisation
Ezio Frigerio, Sets
Franca Squarciapino, Costumes
Jean Guizerix, Choreography
Maryse Flach, Movement assistant
Alessandro Di Stefano, Chorus master

Ludovic Tézier / Dalibor Jenis (A) / Christopher Maltman (B), Il Conte di Almaviva

Barbara Frittoli (A) / Dorothea Röschmann (B), La Contessa di Almaviva

Ekaterina Syurina (A) / Julia Kleiter (B), Susanna

Luca Pisaroni (A) / Erwin Schrott (B), Figaro

Karine Deshayes (A) / Isabel Leonard (B), Cherubino

Ann Murray, Marcellina

Robert Lloyd (A) / Maurizio Muraro (B), Bartolo

Robin Leggate, Don Basilio

Antoine Normand, Don Curzio

Maria Virginia Savastano (A)/ Zoe Nicolaidou (B), Barbarina

Christian Tréguier, Antonio


(A) October ⁄ November 2010

(B) May/June 2011

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