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  • Trompe-la-Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
    Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
  • Trompe-la-Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
    Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
  • Trompe-la-Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
    Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
  • Trompe-la-Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
    Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
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    Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera, © Photo: Kurt Van Der Elst
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Trompe‐la‐Mort: Paris Opera

About the Event

Witness the world premiere of Luca Francesconi's opera, "Trompe‐la‐Mort", staged by Belgian director Guy Cassiers at the Paris Opera.

A student of Stockhausen and Berio, Luca Francesconi is one of the most successful and prolific composers working today. His new work explores the complexities of a key figure from Balzac's "Comédie Humaine" and the society in which he operates. Embodied in this production by baritone Thomas Johannes Mayer, the relentless masked character bears many aliases, among them "Trompe‐la‐Mort", or "Cheat Death".

Sung in French, with French and English surtitles.

Cast / Production

Conductor Susanna Mälkki
Director Guy Cassiers
Costume design Tim Van Steenbergen
Dramaturgy Erwin Jans
Chorus master Alessandro Di Stefano

Vautrin / Trompe‐la‐mort / Jacques Collin Thomas Johannes Mayer
Esther Julie Fuchs
Lucien de Rubempré Cyrille Dubois
Le Baron de Nucingen Jean‐Philippe Lafont
Asie Ildikó Komlósi
Eugène de Rastignac Philippe Talbot
La Comtesse de Sérizy Béatrice Uria‐Monzon
Clotilde de Grandlieu Chiara Skerath
Le Marquis de Granville Laurent Naouri
Les Espions François Piolino, Rodolphe Briand, Laurent Alvaro

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