Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 25 April 2019

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Opera Dmitri Chostakovitch

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Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 25 April 2019

3h25 with 1 interval

Language : Russian

Surtitle : French / English

Pre-Opening : 2 April 2019
Opening night : 6 April 2019
Under 40 ans : 16 April 2019

Certain scenes may be inappropriate for the young and the easily offended.

About

In few words:

Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society. Krzysztof Warlikowski liberates all the subversive power of this scorching and scandalous work, which marked the early years of the Opéra Bastille.

Opening
First part 100 mn
Intermission 30 mn
Second part 63 mn
End

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Opera in four acts and nine parts

Music :

Dmitri Chostakovitch

Libretto :

Alexandre Preis

Dmitri Chostakovitch - After Nikolaï Leskov

Conductor :

Ingo Metzmacher

Director :

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set design :

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Costume design :

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Lighting design :

Felice Ross

Video :

Denis Guéguin

Video Animation :

Kamil Polak

Choreography :

Claude Bardouil

Dramaturgy :

Christian Longchamp

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

In Russian
French and English surtitles
Boris Timofeevich Ismailov :

Dmitry Ulyanov

Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov :

John Daszak

Katerina Lvovna Ismailova :

Aušrinė Stundytė

Serguei :

Pavel Černoch

Aksinya :

Sofija Petrovic

Le Balourd miteux :

Wolfgang Ablinger‑Sperrhacke

Sonietka :

Oksana Volkova

Un Maître d'école :

Andrei Popov

Un Pope, un gardien :

Krzysztof Bączyk

La Bagnarde :

Marianne Croux

Le Chef de la police, le Vieux bagnard :

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

2 > 16 avr.

Le Vieux bagnard :

Krzysztof Bączyk

19 > 25 avr.

Un Officier :

Sava Vemić

Le Chef de la police :

Sava Vemić

19 > 25 avr.

Le Régisseur :

Florent Mbia

Le Portier :

Julien Joguet

Les Contremaîtres :

Hyun-Jong Roh

Paolo Bondi

Cyrille Lovighi

Le Meunier :

Jian-Hong Zhao

Le Cocher :

John Bernard

Le Policier :

Julien Joguet

Un Invité ivre :

Fernando Velasquez

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