Name: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Start: 2023-02-26
End: 2023-02-26
Location: Opéra-Comique

Organization

Conductor

Marc Minkowski

Théotime Langlois de Swarte

Stage director

Jérôme Deschamps

Set designer

Félix Deschamps

Costume designer

Vanessa Sannino

Choreographer

Natalie van Parys

Lighting designer

François Menou

Singer

Flore Babled

Lucile

Pauline Gardel

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

Le Maître de philosophie

Sébastien Boudrot

Le Maître de Musique / le Tailleur

Vincent Debost

Covielle / Le Maître d’armes

Monsieur Jourdain

Pauline Deshons

Dorimène

Bénédicte Choisnet

Aurélien Gabrielli

Cléonte

Guillaume Laloux

Dorante / Le Maître de danse

Josiane Stoleru

Madame Jourdain

Soprano

Sandrine Buendia

Constance Malta-Bey

Countertenor

Nile Senatore

Contre ténor

Tenor

Lisandro Nesis

Ténor

Bass

Jérôme Varnier

Basse

Baritone

Nabil Suliman

Baryton

Natalie Pérez

Mezzo Soprano

Les Musiciens du Louvre

Opéra National de Bordeaux

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Théâtre de Caen

Orchestra

L’Académie des Musiciens du Louvre

Opéra Comique

La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand

Compagnie Jérôme Deschamps

French

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme -  (The Bourgeois Gentleman)

Paris

France

Opéra-Comique

Salle Favart

Vichy

Opéra de Vichy

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Lully

Public

Private

The Bourgeois Gentleman

English

Approved

Jérôme Deschamps, qui signe la mise en scène de ce spectacle total, apporte humanité et poésie à ce rêveur de bourgeois dont nous partageons l’émerveillement...

Mr. Jourdain is studying arts and good manners, believing it’s never too late to learn and climb the social ladder. What a misfortune for him to be born bourgeois during the reign of Louis XIV! He is doomed to be deceived as he is made to believe his daughter is married to the Grand Turk’s heir.

Lead character of Molière and Lully’s last ‘Comédie-Ballet’, this commoner who dreams about becoming a nobleman aimed at putting a grin on Louis XIV’s face, at the expense of the courtesans and the Turks. Molière-Jourdain succeeded: “This is what true comedy is about, healthy and helpful jokes” thanked the monarch. The masterpiece is a model of balance prefiguring Lully's opera genre, as music, singing and dance embody the drama like never before.

Jérôme Deschamps, who signs the direction of the whole show, brings humanity and poetry to this bourgeois dreamer whose wonder we share. Marc Minkowski and the Musiciens du Louvre make these festive score and dances gleam with epic generosity.

Comedy-ballet in five acts. Created at the Château de Chambord in 1670.

The Bourgeois Gentleman by Lully, Sun 26 Feb 2023, From (2023/2023), Directed by Jérôme Deschamps,, Conductor Marc Minkowski, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Opéra-Comique, Paris, France

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