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Eliogabalo

Palais Garnier - from 14 September to 15 October 2016

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Eliogabalo

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Opera Francesco Cavalli

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Palais Garnier - from 14 September to 15 October 2016

3h40 with 2 intervals

About

In few words:

"Eliogabalo is languorous, effeminate, lecherous, lascivious; watch, observe, may heaven preserve you."
Lenia, Acte I, scène 11

Violent, terrifying and fascinating, Caligula, Nero and Elagabalus led lives so short, ambivalent and cruel that they inspired numerous writers. “Anarchy, to the extent to which Elagabalus pushes it, is genuine poetry”, wrote Antonin Artaud, exalting a man’s battle against conventions and order. Cavalli’s last-known opera, dating from 1667, focuses on the perverse young emperor who neglected affairs of state in favour of sensual pleasures. Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the Senate, favours sinning servants and humiliates generals. Baroque and carnivalesque, Eliogabalo is not, however, an opera that advocates a return to order. Leonardo García Alarcón, a finder of baroque gems, and Thomas Jolly are careful not to transform Eliogabalo into a sublime icon who would abase virtue. On the contrary, the conductor and young director, who are presenting their first production for the Paris Opera, accept the character’s contradictions and ambiguities.

Eliogabalo

Opera in three acts (1999), posthumous creation

In Italian

Music :

Francesco Cavalli - (1602-1676)

Libretto :

Anonyme

Conductor :

Leonardo García Alarcón

Director :

Thomas Jolly

Artistic collaboration :

Alexandre Dain

Choreography :

Maud Le Pladec

Set design :

Thibaut Fack

Costume design :

Gareth Pugh

Lighting design :

Antoine Travert

Dramaturgy :

Corinne Meyniel

Chorus master :

Thibault Lenaerts
Orchestre Cappella Mediterranea
Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Coproduction avec de Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

French and English surtitles
Eliogabalo :

Franco Fagioli

Alessandro Cesare :

Paul Groves

Flavia Gemmira :

Nadine Sierra

Giuliano Gordio :

Valer Sabadus

Anicia Eritea :

Elin Rombo

Atilia Macrina :

Mariana Flores

Zotico :

Matthew Newlin

Lenia :

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

Nerbulone, Tiferne :

Scott Conner

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Eliogabalo - Trailer

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Eliogabalo par Thomas Jolly

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En répétition avec Thomas Jolly

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Thomas Jolly met en scène Eliogabalo

Audio clips

Podcast | Eliogabalo - Francesco Cavalli

— By In partnership with France Musique

About the work

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Podcast Eliogabalo

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By Milena Mc Closkey

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Ce spectacle fera l’objet d’une captation audiovisuelle

Une co-production Opéra national de Paris et CLC avec le soutien du CNC et la participation de France 2, réalisée par Julien Condemine et Roberto Maria Grassi.
Diffusion en direct sur Culturebox le 7 octobre.
Diffusion sur France 2 ultérieurement et sur France Musique le 16 octobre.

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