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Capriccio at Palais de la Monnaie

Dates: (11/3/2016 - 11/16/2016 )

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Palais de la Monnaie


86 C, avenue du Port
Brussels,Brussels 1000

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‘An opera is an absurd thing. Orders are given in song; politics is discussed in a duet. One danses around a grave, and dagger thrusts are dealt out in music.’ In Capriccio, his last opera, Richard Strauss reflects on the opera genre, and more especially on the question of which actually takes priority – the music or the words. This dilemma is depicted metaphorically in this ‘Konversationsstück für Musik’: an 18th-century countess is faced with the heart-rending choice between the love of a composer and that of a poet. Strauss’s musical voice is here full of dramatic power, humour, and sentiment and reaches a peak of refinement, sometimes flirting with chamber music. In his debut at La Monnaie, the Hungarian director David Marton creates a dream-world in which theatre itself appears on stage, and the conductor Lothar Koenigs spurs our orchestra to heights of subtlety. ‘If you choose one, you lose the other! Doesn’t one always lose, when one wins?’

Cast and Creative team for Capriccio at Palais de la Monnaie

Music direction ¦ Lothar Koenigs
Director ¦ David Marton
Set design & costumes ¦ Christian Friedländer
Costumes ¦ Pola Kardum
Lighting ¦ Henning Streck
Dramaturgy ¦ Barbara Engelhardt
Die Gräfin ¦ Sally Matthews
Der Graf, ihr Bruder ¦ Dietrich Henschel
Flamand, ein Musiker ¦ Edgaras Montvidas
Olivier, ein Dichter ¦ Stéphane Degout
La Roche, der Theaterdirektor ¦ Kristinn Sigmundsson
Die Schauspielerin Clairon ¦ Charlotte Hellekant
Monsieur Toupe ¦ François Piolino
Een italienische Sängerin ¦ Elena Galitskaya
Een italienischer Tenor ¦ Dimitri Ivanchey
Der Haushofmeister ¦ Christian Oldenburg
Diener ¦ Zeno Popescu
Nabil Suliman
Stefan Cifolelli
Bertrand Duby
Kris Belligh
Pierre Derhet
Maxime Melnik
Kamil Ben Hsain Lachiri
Orchestra ¦ La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
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