(c) Gérard Uféras Robinson Crusoé: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées
Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées — Main Hall
About the Event
Offenbach’s earthy poetry is served up by the duo of Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly.
Offenbach had big dreams, and Robinson Crusoé, which was composed in the same year as La Grande duchesse de Gerolstein, was performed at the Théâtre Impérial de l’Opéra‐Comique. Although the work was a respectable, if modest, success, it allowed the composer first and foremost to demonstrate the unprecedented splendour of his music, in which the sea plays a symphony while tropical birds sing to the strains of the piccolo. The press recognised its merits: “In the liveliness of this sharp yet subtle imagination, we can discern a new direction for opéra‐comique which will modernize the genre”. Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly are the perfect pairing to conduct and direct this neglected score. They will be supported by a cast with all the experience required to deliver Offenbach and celebrate his joy, inspiration and poetry. Like a slightly distorting mirror reflecting a long gone era.
Program
- Jacques Offenbach – Robinson Crusoé
Cast / Production
Marc Minkowski | direction
Laurent Pelly | staging, costumes
Agathe Mélinand | dialogue adaptation
Chantal Thomas | design
Michel Le Borgne | lights
Lawrence Brownlee | Robinson
Julie Fuchs | Edwige
Laurent Naouri | Sir William Crusoé
Marc Mauillon | Toby
Rodolphe Briand | Jim‐Cocks
Matthieu Toulouse | Atkins
Adèle Charvet | Vendredi
Emma Fekete | Suzanne
Julie Pasturaud | Deborah
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Accentus
Address
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 15, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France — Google Maps
