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Les fêtes d'hébé at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

Dates: (4/5/2017 - 4/6/2017 )

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Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille


Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012

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

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After the scandal surrounding the first performance of Hippolyte et Aricie and the stormy reception of Les Indes galantes, Jean-Philippe Rameau finally gained incontestable fame with the opera?ballet Les Fêtes d’Hébé ou Les Talens liriques. First performed at the Paris Royal Academy of music on 21st May 1739, the work was to be performed many times to constant acclaim up until 1770. The Prologue portrays Hébé, the goddess of youth, harassed by the Pleasures and obliged to flee Olympus and find solace in the arms of Love. The work recounts the victories of the God of Love in three acts or “Entrées” entitled “La Poésie”, “La Musique” and “La Danse”. With a libretto designed above all to show the arts of dancing and singing to full advantage, first in epic, then lyric and finally pastoral style, Rameau is able to give unfettered rein to his genius. The choreographer Thomas Lebrun proposes a resolutely contemporary interpretation of Rameau’s “opéra-ballet” with the artists of the Paris Opera Academy, choristers from the Centre de Musique Baroque in Versailles and the musicians of London’s Royal College of Music.

Cast and Creative team for Les fêtes d'hébé at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille


Music
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Libretto
Antoine Gautier de Montdorge

In French

Conductor
Jonathan Williams
Director
Thomas Lebrun
Directoc collaboration
Raphaël Cottin
Choreography
Thomas Lebrun

Églé
Pauline Texier
Hébé
Pauline Texier
Sapho
Adriana Gonzalez
Naïade
Laure Poissonnier
Iphise
Farah El Dibany
Momus
Jean-François Marras
Thélème
Juan de Dios Mateos Segura
Hymas
Mikhail Timoshenko
Alcée
Tomasz Kumiega
Amour
Laure Poissonnier
Lycurgue
Jean-François Marras
Mercure
Juan de Dios Mateos Segura
Tirtée
Mikhail Timoshenko
Eurilas
Tomasz Kumiega

Set design
Thomas Lebrun
Costume design
Jeanne Guellaff
Lighting design
Françoise Michel
Video
Charlotte Rousseau
Chorus master
Olivier Schneebeli

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