Le Soulier de satin - Opera - Season 20/21 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    Le Soulier de satin

    Marc-André Dalbavie

    Palais Garnier - from 21 May to 13 June 2021

    Alfredo de Stefano, Linea de Luz

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Le Soulier de satin

Palais Garnier - from 21 May to 13 June 2021

Opera

Le Soulier de satin

World creation

Marc-André Dalbavie

Palais Garnier - from 21 May to 13 June 2021

6h05 with 2 intervals

Language : French

Surtitle : French / English

About

In few words:

“The subject for the Satin Slipper comes from a Chinese legend about two celestial stars in love who, each year, having travelled far, manage to come within reach of each other without ever being able to come together from the disparate sides of the Milky Way.” So surmised Paul Claudel. The play, whose power of attraction has never wavered, occupies a special place in the theatrical repertoire of the 20th century: written between 1919 and 1924 and first staged by Jean-Louis Barrault in an abridged version in 1943, it would have to await Antoine Vitez to be performed in its entirety. That production, performed in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes in 1987, lasted over ten hours and marked an entire generation of theatregoers, including Marc-André Dalbavie.
Alternatively titled The Worst Is Not Always Certain, The Satin Slipper is an immense parable which alternates between the sublime, the comic and the disturbing. It is set in a specific era—the Spanish Golden Age—during which humanity experiences its first bout of “globalization”. Confronting a passionate desire for individual happiness, external imperatives and an aspiration for the universal, the work leads the spectator into a ongoing state hovering between hypnosis and joy. This new opera is the third world-premiere production commissioned by the Paris Opera for its cycle on French literature.

  • Opening
  • First part 120 mn
  • Intermission 45 mn
  • Second part 100 mn
  • Intermission 35 mn
  • Third part 60 mn
  • End

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Audio clips

Le Soulier de satin (Saison 20/21)- Fanny Ardant

Le Soulier de satin (Saison 20/21)- Julien Dran et Vannina Santoni

Le Soulier de satin (Saison 20/21)- Luca Pisaroni et Eve-Maud Hubeaux

Le Soulier de satin (Saison 20/21)- Eve-Maud Hubeaux et Max Emanuel Cenčić

Backstage

  • Adapting Claudel

    Video

    Adapting Claudel

  • Recipe of the day: Le Soulier de satin

    Video

    Recipe of the day: Le Soulier de satin

  • Podcast Le Soulier de satin

    Podcast

    Podcast Le Soulier de satin

  • Setting Le Soulier de Satin to music

    Video

    Setting Le Soulier de Satin to music

  • Claudel, a man torn asunder

    Video

    Claudel, a man torn asunder

© Laurent Sarazin

Adapting Claudel

07:39’

Video

Adapting Claudel

Interview with the playwright Raphaèle Fleury

By Marion Mirande

Raphaèle Fleury, librettist of Marc-André Dalbavie's opera Le Soulier de satin, based on Paul Claudel's work, talks about her work as an adaptor, balancing fidelity with the freedom required to set this unique dramatic content to music.

Recipe of the day: Le Soulier de satin

000:53’

Video

Recipe of the day: Le Soulier de satin

Ingredients of Stanislas Nordey's stage production

By Octave

  Soulier de satin from 21 May to 13 June 2021 at the Palais Garnier  

© Alfredo de Stefano, Linea de Luz

Podcast Le Soulier de satin

07’

Podcast

Podcast Le Soulier de satin

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

By Charlotte Landru-Chandès, France Musique

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Charlotte Landru-Chandès (opera) and Jean-Baptiste Urbain (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.  

© Elena Bauer / OnP

Setting Le Soulier de Satin to music

05:21’

Video

Setting Le Soulier de Satin to music

Interview with the composer Marc-André Dalbavie

By Konstantinos Aspiotis

For his world premiere, commissioned by the Paris Opera, Marc-André Dalbavie faced a major challenge: setting to music a monument of French literature: Le Soulier de satin. For the composer, Paul Claudel's work is clearly operatic, both in the way the characters are portrayed and in terms of duration of action. He discusses the different stages of creation, from writing the libretto to composing the music.

© Eléna Bauer / OnP

Claudel, a man torn asunder

07:25’

Video

Claudel, a man torn asunder

Interview with Stanislas Nordey

By Marion Mirande

A monumental and sweeping drama - whose rare theatrical performances demand more than ten hours - Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin has been set to music by Marc-André Dalbavie for the Paris Opera. To mark this world premiere, Stanislas Nordey, who is directing the piece, discusses Claudel's dramaturgy, a battleground between carnal passion and commitment to God.

Partners

The Satin Slipper will be filmed and recorded by director Floris Bernard, in a coproduction with the Paris Opera and Radio France, with the participation of Medici.tv and the support of the Orange Foundation, sponsor of the audiovisual broadcastings at the Paris Opera. Broadcast from June 13, 2021 at 2:30pm, freely available on the Paris Opera VOD platform L'Opéra chez soi, and on Medici.tv for 48 hours – then available only for the subscribers. Broadcast on France Musique on Saturday 19 June, 2021, at 8pm.

Media and technical partners

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