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Jean-Sébastien Bou

Claude

Bass-baritone

Jean-Philippe Lafont

Le Directeur

Rodrigo Ferreira

Albin

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Stage director

Olivier Py

Set designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Chorus master

Alan Woodbridge

Laurent Alvaro

L'Entrepreneur

Le Surveillant Général

Rémy Mathieu

1. personnage

1. Surveillant

Philip Sheffield

2. personnage

2. Surveillant

Yannick Berne

First Prisoner

Paolo Stupenengo

Second Prisoner

Jean Vendassi

Third Prisoner

David Sánchez Serra

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Didier Roussel

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Brian Bruce

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Opéra de Lyon

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Lyon

France

Opéra Nouvel de Lyon

French contemporary composer Thierry Escaich and French essayist, politician, and now librettist Robert Badinter transform Victor Hugo’s short story Claude Gueux into an operatic call for human dignity in the 21st century.  

Victor Hugo’s 1834 Claude Gueux explores themes of social justice that would later become the backbone of his landmark novel Les Misérables. The work narrates the story of Claude Gueux, a poor uneducated man who steals, is imprisoned for his crime, and, through an unfortunate series of events, is sentenced to death and executed. Hugo accompanied the work with an epilogue criticizing a French society that condemns the disproportionate use of punishment for the crimes of the poor and helpless. In their 2013 opera, Escaich and Badinter transplant the dark fable into the modern day in this production that features a gripping staging by Olivier Py and accomplished performances by Jean-Sébastien Bou as Claude and Rodrigo Ferreira as his best friend Albin.

Claude Escaich

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A modern opera inspired by Victor Hugo’s ‘’Claude Gueux’’, on a libretto by Robert Badinter and music by Thierry Escaich, available on DVD ! Check out on Ama...

Claude by Escaich, From (2013/2013), Directed by Olivier Py,, Conductor Jérémie Rhorer, Opéra Nouvel de Lyon, Lyon, France

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