Organization

Soprano (+1)

Perrine Devillers

Soloists

Lieselot De Wilde

Bass-baritone (+7)

Yannis François

Baritone (+3)

Nicholas Merryweather

Mezzo-soprano (+7)

Lucile Richardot

Tenor (+2)

Antonin Rondepierre

Stage director

Jos Houben

Stage director (+1)

Emily Wilson

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Sébastien Daucé

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Christophe Schaeffer

Costume designer

Costume designer (+2)

Oria Puppo

Set designer

Dramaturge

Katherina Lindekens

Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Opéra de Rennes

Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen

Théâtres de Compiègne

Orchestra

Ensemble Correspondances

Born in the 16th century in England, the "masks", or rather masks , had the characteristics of mixing music, song, dance, theater, grandiloquent decorations... in the service of a figure of power whose qualities were praised. All elements that would later flourish in the Baroque gesture and that we find in French court performances. Cupid & Death, a mask with five entrances, begins with an inversion: Cupid shoots his arrows at two lovers and kills them, while death stings with points of love two old men ready to die. The libretto by playwright James Shirley, adapted from an Aesop fable, imagines the consequences of what love become dead and death transformed into love would generate: a capital chaos where polarities are reversed, where nature goes mad and enemies discover themselves friends…

A spirited variation of deadly love that the duo of directors Jos Houben and Emily Wilson, accustomed to discrepancies and games of bodies and objects ( La Princesse lumière , 2017), will passionately renew.

English

Cupid and Death

Paris

France

Grande Salle