Name: Le prophète
Start: 2024-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Fisher Center

Admin

Bard Summerscape

Tenor

Robert Watson

Jean de Leyde

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Feinstein

Fidès

Soprano

Amina Edris

Berthe

Conductor

Leon Botstein

Orchestra

American Symphony Orchestra

Fisher Center at Bard

Stage director

Christian Räth

Set designer

Daniel Unger

Costume designer

Mattie Ullrich

Choreographer

Catherine Galasso

Lighting designer

Rick Fisher

Video designer

Elaine J McCarthy

Singer

Bass

Harold Wilson

Zacharie

Bass-baritone

Wu Wei

Mathisen

Zachary Altman

Le Comte d'Oberthal

Brian Vu

Jonas

Franċiż

Le prophète -  (The Prophet)

Annandale

United States

Fisher Center

Sosnoff Theater

Virtual: Le prophète

Description
Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama. Shepherded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists, the simple innkeeper Jean de Leyde is persuaded into proclaiming himself king of Münster. Armed with charismatic leadership, Jean mobilizes the masses into a tumultuous religious uprising, denouncing his mother, Fidès, and antagonizing his beloved Berthe along the way. Director Christian Räth (Die Schweigsame Frau, 2022 and Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to lead a visionary new production of a grand opera with colorful vocal passages, inventive orchestrations, and a catastrophic end.

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