Les Fêtes d'Hébé - Opera - Season 16/17 Programming

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Les Fêtes d'Hébé

Amphithéâtre Bastille - from 22 to 27 March 2017

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Les Fêtes d'Hébé

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Opera - Production by the Academy Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Amphithéâtre Bastille - from 22 to 27 March 2017

2h20 with 1 interval

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In few words:

"Let us dance and sing one and all, let us enjoy tender moments, and charming hours for happy lovers!"

Chœur des mariniers, Première entrée, scène V

After the scandal surrounding the first performance of Hippolyte et Aricie and the stormy reception of Les Indes galantes, Jean-Philippe Rameau finally gained incontestable fame with the opera‑ballet Les Fêtes d’Hébé ou Les Talens liriques. First performed at the Paris Royal Academy of music on 21st May 1739, the work was to be performed many times to constant acclaim up until 1770. The Prologue portrays Hébé, the goddess of youth, harassed by the Pleasures and obliged to flee Olympus and find solace in the arms of Love. The work recounts the victories of the God of Love in three acts or “Entrées” entitled “La Poésie”, “La Musique” and “La Danse”. With a libretto designed above all to show the arts of dancing and singing to full advantage, first in epic, then lyric and finally pastoral style, Rameau is able to give unfettered rein to his genius. The choreographer Thomas Lebrun proposes a resolutely contemporary interpretation of Rameau’s “opéra-ballet” with the artists of the Paris Opera Academy, choristers from the Centre de Musique Baroque in Versailles and the musicians of London’s Royal College of Music.

Représentations tout public - Voir les séances
22 mars 2017 à 20h
23 mars 2017 à 20h
25 mars 2017 à 20h

Représentations scolaires - Comment réserver ?
27 mars 2017 à 14h

Rencontre autour du spectacle
14 mars 2017 à 18h - Read more

Les Fêtes d'Hébé

Opera in a prologue and three acts (1739)

In French

Music :

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Libretto :

Antoine Gautier de Montdorge

Conductor :

Jonathan Williams

Director :

Thomas Lebrun

Choreography :

Thomas Lebrun

Directoc collaboration :

Raphaël Cottin

Assistant stage director :

Maëlle Dequiedt

Set design :

Thomas Lebrun

Costume design :

Laurianne Scimemi Del Francia

Lighting design :

Françoise Michel

Video :

Charlotte Rousseau

Chorus master :

Olivier Schneebeli
Chanteurs de l’Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris
Royal College of Music International Opera School
Royal College of Music Baroque Orchestra
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Avec la participation de danseurs invités

Coproduction avec le Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
En partenariat avec le Royal College of Music, London
Églé :

Pauline Texier

Hébé :

Pauline Texier

Sapho :

Adriana Gonzalez

Naïade :

Eleanor Penfold

Iphise :

Adriana Gonzalez

Momus :

Jean-François Marras

Thélème :

Juan de Dios Mateos

Hymas :

Mikhail Timoshenko

Alcée :

Tomasz Kumiega

Amour :

Laure Poissonnier

Lycurgue :

Jean-François Marras

Mercure :

Juan de Dios Mateos

Tirtée :

Mikhail Timoshenko

Eurilas :

Tomasz Kumiega

L’oracle :

Joel Williams

Le fleuve :

James Atkinson

Bergère/Le ruisseau :

Julieth Lozano

Bergère/Naïade :

Eleanor Penfold

Danseurs :

Antoine Arbeit

Maxime Camo

Karima El Amrani

Lucie Gemon

Léa Scher

Julien-Henri Vu Van Dong

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