The Rape of Lucretia - Opera - Season 20/21 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

  • Opera - Production by the Academy

    The Rape of Lucretia

    Benjamin Britten

    Paris Opera | Théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord - from 19 to 29 May 2021

    Fatma Gultekin

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The Rape of Lucretia

Paris Opera | Théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord - from 19 to 29 May 2021

Opera - Production by the Academy

The Rape of Lucretia

Benjamin Britten

Paris Opera | Théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord - from 19 to 29 May 2021

2h05 with 1 interval

About

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Benjamin Britten composed The Rape of Lucretia in 1946 after a radio-drama by André Obey. Britten and his librettist, two convinced pacifists involved way before WWII, address a European society bruised by war and hate. Running from the grand operatic machine, their inspiration drove them to a more intimate construction, the chamber opera. Britten wrote indeed for a small number of musicians and singers-actors in a musical and dramatic language where the narration exceeds the illusion on stage.
Britten chose the myth of the dedicated and suicidal wife and wrote a piece that interrogates desire in its relation with anxiety: mutual love, gulty will and frustration. Britten makes us think about the violence in human relations, about sexuality and its dark zones. With Lucretia as heroin and victim, Britten makes us face the tragic human condition.

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    Music at the heart of theatre

Music at the heart of theatre

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Music at the heart of theatre

Jeanne Candel directs The Rape of Lucretia for the Academy

By Konstantinos Aspiotis

From 19 to 29 May, the Academy's artists in residence will return to the stage and the public with Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia presented at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. For the occasion, director Jeanne Candel discusses the challenges of this intimate work, often described as a chamber opera, which invites us to reflect on the ambivalence of desire and the violence of human relationships. 

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