Daphne at La Monnaie

Dates: (9/9/2014 - 9/30/2014 )

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La Monnaie

23, rue Léopold
Brussel,Brussels 1000

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The metamorphosis of Daphne is set in a total union with the music, whereby the words become superfluous and Daphne becomes just a voice that resounds out of the moonlit treetop’ – this is how the librettist Joseph Gregor characterised the ultimate moment in Strauss’ opera Daphne. This ‘bucolic tragedy’ tells the sad story of the beautiful Daphne, who is loved both by the simple shepherd Leukippos and the god Apollo : he kills his rival and thus leaves Daphne inconsolable, after which he immortalises her in the form of a laurel tree. In 1938, Daphne’s metamorphosis, as described by Ovid and given shape to by Bernini and Chassériau in the plastic arts, inspired Richard Strauss to write his thirteenth opera, which possibly contains his finest music. In this Daphne, the director Guy Joosten sets the world of an ecologically-inspired ‘hipster’ on the fringes of the mainstream against a hard economic reality.

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Cast and Creative team for Daphne at La Monnaie

Music direction ¦ Lothar Koenigs
Director ¦ Guy Joosten
Set design ¦ Alfons Flores
Costumes ¦ Moritz Junge
Lighting ¦ Manfred Voss
Video ¦ Franc Aleu
Choreography ¦ Aline David
Chorus direction ¦ Martino Faggiani
Peneios ¦ Iain Paterson
Gaea ¦ Birgit Remmert
Daphne ¦ Sally Matthews
Leukippos ¦ Peter Lodahl
Apollo ¦ Eric Cutler
Erste Magd ¦ Tineke Van Ingelgem
Zweite Magd ¦ Maria Fiselier
Schäfer ¦ Matt Boehler
Gijs Van der Linden
Kris Belligh
Justin Hopkins
Orchestra & chorus ¦ La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Men's Chorus

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