Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Stage director

Claus Guth

Choreographer

Set designer

Etienne Pluss

Lighting designer

Fabrice Kebour

Video designer

Rocafilm

Dramaturge

Yvonne Gebauer

Singer

Bass-baritone

Evan Hughes

Virgilio

Mezzo-soprano

Christel Loetzsch

Giovane Dante

Baritone

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Dante

Soprano

Jennifer France

Beatrice

Maria Carla Pino Cury

Lucia

Countertenor

Dominique Visse

Voce dei dannati

Spoken

Giacomo Prestia

Narratore

Costume designer

Gesine Völlm

Saarländisches Staatstheater

Opéra National de Paris

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Others

Lyon Opera Choirs

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

Italian

Il viaggio, Dante

Aix-en-Provence

France

Grand Théâtre de Provence

Il viaggio, Dante Dusapin

Private

Public

English

French

Approved

A monument of European culture whose 700th anniversary is being celebrated, the Divine Comedy is both a poem-world synthesizing all knowledge and the concrete testimony of a life immersed in the turpitudes of its time – Florence in the year 1300 , with its political and religious quarrels which nearly led Dante to the stake. With Il Viaggio, Dante , Pascal Dusapin ( Passion, 2008) and Frédéric Boyer offer an intimate journey through this reputedly unadaptable sum, which itself narrates the journey of an exemplary individual through everything that makes up the human – until his accomplishment in light and in joy. 

Seized at three ages of life, Dante passes from the circles of hell, with his litany of the damned culminating in the encounter with Lucifer, in paradise, where the enigmatic laughter of Beatrice resounds. Kent Nagano conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon; For his first appearance at the Festival d'Aix, Claus Guth places his protagonist between life and death, in an uncertain in-between which has the disturbing strangeness of our contemporary world

Il viaggio, Dante by Dusapin, From (2022/2022), Directed by Claus Guth,, Conductor Kent Nagano, Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

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Cast

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Ensemble

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