Opéra in 1 Prologue and 1 Act, 1916 - Music Richard Strauss - Libretto Hugo von Hoffmansthal
Opéra de Rouen Normandie (November 15,17,19, 2024) / Opéra de Limoges (2022)
« You think that we are hired to cure their indigestion with a performance of our opera, Ariadne on Naxos! »
CAST
Music direction, Ben Glassberg (Rouen) / Robert Tuohy (Limoges)
Staging, Scenic design, Costume design, Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Collaboration for Scenic design, Christophe Pitoiset
Lighting, Rick Martin
Video, Pascal Boudet & Timothée Buisson
Graphic design, Julien Roques - Dramaturgy, Luc Bourrousse
Sally Matthews, Camille Schnoor (Primadonna / Ariadne), Jphn Findon, Brian Register (Tenor / Bacchus), Paula Murrihy, Julie Robard-Gendre (Komponist), Caroline Wettergreen, Liudmilla Lokaichuk (Zerbinetta), Grégoire Mour, Paul Schweinester (Tanzmeister / Brighella), Robert Lewis, Léo Vermot-Desroches (Offizier / Scaramuccio), Leon Kosavic, Christophe Gay (Perückenmacher / Harlekin), François Lis, Nicolas Brooymans (Lakai / Truffaldin), William Dazeley, Christian Miedl (Musiklehrer), Yerang Park, Jeanne Mendoche (Najade), Clarac Guillon, Lida Antola (Echo), Aliénor Feix, Agatha Schmidt (Dryade)
PRODUCTION
Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Rouen Normandie
ABOUT
Why stage a new opera today? Through subtle and playful trompe-l’œil, anamorphosis and metamorphosis, this new production invites us to consider the contemporary stakes involved in artistic creation and opera performance. The Prologue brings into dialogue two groups of people gathered around a table: on stage, artists having a read-through, discovering the new opera they are to perform in front of its sponsor; on video, the elegant guests of this same patron, already seated for the sumptuous dinner that precedes the performance. The Opera then takes us to the island of Naxos, in an anamorphosis reminding us that Naxos is nothing but a fictitious space. Constantly deconstructed, the scenography evolves along the evening, in much the same way that the characters of the opera unravel, mutate and gradually reconstruct.
An Ariadne in the realm of illusion, between “Portrait of the Artist as a Worker“ and gourmet entertainment for rich patrons, right at the heart of the manufacture of live entertainment.
