L'Incoronazione di Poppea at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

Dates: (6/7/2014 - 6/30/2014 )

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Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

120 rue de Lyon
Paris,Île-de-France 75 012

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Phone: + 33 (0)1 71 25 24 23

Tickets: €10.00 - €195.00

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Neither Fortune nor Virtue can vie with Love who, with a mere wave of the hand, can transform the world: such is the message conveyed by L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi’s last masterpiece. Thirty five years had passed since his Orfeo, which had opened the era of the favola in musica. In the City of the Doges, riven by vice in Rome’s eyes, the composer wrote his opera about desire and seduction in which Poppea’s beauty bewitches Nero and provokes the death of Seneca, the banishment of Othon and the repudiation of Octavia. One by one, the pillars of morality crumble before we can bond with any of the characters, leaving us with the exquisitely delightful music. In the twilight of his life, Monteverdi invites us into a sensorial world where “the voice becomes a kiss before turning into profound utterance” (Starobinski). With “Poppea,” producer Robert Wilson, the poet of movement and space, writes a new chapter in his history with the Paris Opera.

Cast and Creative team for L'Incoronazione di Poppea at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

Rinaldo Alessandrini Conductor
Robert Wilson Stage director
Giuseppe Frigeni Co-stage director
Robert Wilson, Annick Lavallée-Benny Sets
Jacques Reynaud Costumes
A. J. Weissbard, Robert Wilson Lighting

Gaëlle Arquez La Fortuna, Drusilla
Jael Azzaretti La Virtù, Damigella
Amel Brahim-Djelloul Amore
Varduhi Abrahamyan Ottone
Karine Deshayes Poppea
Jeremy Ovenden Nerone
Manuel Nuñez Camelino Arnalta
Monica Bacelli Ottavia
Giuseppe de Vittorio Nutrice
Andrea Concetti Seneca
Marie-Adeline Henry Valletto
Nahuel di Pierro Mercurio
Salvo Vitale Secondo Tribuno, Famigliare di Seneca
Valerio Contaldo Soldato pretoriano, Lucano, Famigliare di Seneca, Secondo Console
Furio Zanasi Soldato pretoriano, Liberto, Primo Tribuno

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