Only the Sound Remains - Opera - Season 17/18 Programming

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Only the Sound Remains

Palais Garnier - from 23 January to 07 February 2018

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Only the Sound Remains

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Opera Kaija Saariaho

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Palais Garnier - from 23 January to 07 February 2018

2h20 with 1 interval

Language : English

Surtitle : French / English

About

In few words:

The timbre of the lute or the voice, the movements of dance and those of the wind are so many intangible treasures, the loss of which can be unbearable.
Only the Sound Remains brings together two short operas, Always Strong and Feather Mantle, inspired by two plays from Japanese No theatre: Tsunemasa and Hagoromo. After a violent death in combat, the tormented Tsunemasa reappears at court: his spirit has been deprived of the happiness of playing the lute, an instrument from which his skill once drew enchanting sounds. In Feather Mantle, a fisherman appropriates a mantle which he finds hanging from a branch.
A young nymph asks him to give it back so that she can return to heaven. In exchange, she promises him the offering of a dance.

Only the Sound Remains

Opera in two parts

After Deux pièces du théâtre nô japonais, Tsunemasa, Hagoromo

Music :

Kaija Saariaho

Libretto :

Ezra Pound

Ernest Fenollosa

Conductor :

Ernest Martínez Izquierdo

Director :

Peter Sellars

Set design :

Julie Mehretu

Costume design :

Robby Duiveman

Lighting design :

James F. Ingalls

Sound :

Christophe Lebreton
Commission and coproduction with De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto, Teatro Real, Madrid, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
With the support of GRAME, Centre national de création musicale, Lyon
Spirit, Angel :

Philippe Jaroussky

Priest, Fisherman :

Davone Tines

Danseuse :

Nora Kimball‑Mentzos

Quatuor à cordes :

Meta4

Antti Tikkanen

Minna Pensola

Atte Kilpeläinen

Tomas Djupsjöbacka

Kantele :

Eija Kankaanranta

Flûte :

Camilla Hoitenga

Percussion :

Heikki Parviainen

Quatuor vocal :

Theatre of Voices

Else Torp

Iris Oja

Paul Bentley-Angell

Jakob Bloch Jespersen