Special Offer! Saint‐Saëns, Le Timbre d’Argent: Opéra Comique
About the Event
Discover Camille Saint‐Saëns' opera Le Timbre d’Argent, a fascinating, under‐appreciated masterwork full of dark fantasy. François‐Xavier Roth conducts this production by director Guillaume Vincent.
Saint‐Saëns' opéra fantastique is based on a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, the librettists of Faust and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. A strange doctor offers the poor struggling painter Conrad a curious silver bell. Under the object's spell, the artist slowly loses the ability to distinguish art from reality, and launches the audience in a disturbingly beautiful journey, full of metamorphoses.
Cast / Production
Music director: François‐Xavier Roth
Stage director: Guillaume Vincent
Set design: James Brandily
Costumes: Fanny Brouste
Lights: Kellig Le Bars
Collaboration to movements: Herman Diephius
Circée, ballerina: Raphaëlle Delaunay
Hélène: Hélène Guilmette
Rosa: Jodie Devos
Spiridion: Tassis Christoyannis
Conrad: Edgaras Montvidas
Bénédict Yu Shao
Choir Accentus
Orchestra Les Siècles
Production: Opéra Comique
Co‐production Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française, Köln Oper
