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The Golden Cockerel at Palais de la Monnaie

Dates: (12/13/2016 - 12/31/2016 )

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Palais de la Monnaie


86 C, avenue du Port
Brussels,Brussels 1000

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‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score of The Golden Cockerel highlights the delicious ambiguity of this work. Principally inspired by Washington Irving and Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov called on the talents of Vladimir Belsky, an author of other libretti of a fairy-tale, legendary nature and an expert on Russian folk literature. The composer, a genius at orchestration, has given us sparkling music, with oriental touches, that creates fully rounded characters. This is the perfect occasion for Alain Altinoglu to direct his first opera in his new role as Music Director of La Monnaie. After the success of his Don Quichotte and Cendrillon, Laurent Pelly returns to La Monnaie to stage this exuberant political satire, an adventure in unrestrained rhythm. More than a century has passed since its first performance, yet the opera has lost none of its boisterous sarcasm.

Cast and Creative team for The Golden Cockerel at Palais de la Monnaie

Music direction ¦ Alain Altinoglu
Director & costumes ¦ Laurent Pelly
Set design ¦ Barbara de Limburg
Lighting ¦ Joël Adam
Collaboration costumes ¦ Jean-Jacques Delmotte
Chorus direction ¦ Martino Faggiani
Chorus Academy direction ¦ Benoît Giaux
Tzar Dodon ¦ Pavlo Hunka (13, 18, 21, 23, 28 & 31 December)
Tzar Dodon ¦ Alexey Tikhomirov (14, 16, 20, 22, 27 & 30 December)
Tzarevich Guidon ¦ Alexey Dolgov
Tzarevich Afron ¦ Konstantin Shushakov
General Polkan ¦ Alexander Vassiliev
Amelfa ¦ Agnes Zwierko
Astrologer ¦ Alexander Kravets
Tzaritza of Shemakha ¦ Venera Gimadieva (13, 18, 21, 23, 28 & 31 December)
Nina Minasyan (14, 16, 20, 22, 27 & 30 December)
Little Golden Cockerel ¦ Sheva Tehoval
Orchestra & chorus ¦ La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Chorus ¦ La Monnaie Chorus Academy
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