Opera in 4 Acts, 1853 - Music Giuseppe Verdi - Libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Antonio Garcia Gutierrez
Opéra de Rouen Normandie, 2021
« It's common belief that the wicked witch's damned soul still lives in the world,
And when the sky is black she shows herself in various shapes.» - Il Trovatore, Act 1.
CAST
Music Direction: Pierre Bleuse
Staging, Set design, Costume design: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Collaboration for scenic design: Christophe Pitoiset
Artistic collaboration: Lodie Kardouss
Lighting: Christophe Pitoiset
Video: Benjamin Juhel, Julien Roques, Timothée Buisson
Graphic design: Julien Roques
Dramaturgy: Luc Bourrousse
Lionel Lhote, Jennifer Rowley, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Ivan Gyngazov, Grigory Shkarupa, Aliénor Feix, Martin Lamotte
PRODUCTION
Opéra de Rouen Normandie
ABOUT
Witch-hunt and feminist dystopia in 2050's Rouen. In a futuristic world where the Count of Luna’s cronies monitor the memory of women through huge high-security data centers, the neo-feminist “witch” Azucena is caught and sent back into the past on account of of her ability to focus on specific anterior events. A journey to 2020's Rouen, where Manrico was born; but also to Rouen in the 1500's, the golden age of the witch trials in Europe.
