Organization

Opera Ballet Flanders

Conductor

Gaetano Lo Coco

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Guillaume Fauchère

Assistant Music Director

William Le Sage

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Ersan Mondtag

Costume designer

Josa Marx

Dramaturge

Till Briegleb

Dramaturge (+1)

Piet De Volder

Baritone (+4)

Joël Terrin

Ladendieb Severin

Bass

Benny Claessens

Polizist Olim

Tenor (+2)

James Kryshak

Lotterie-Agent

Soprano (+1)

Ava Dodd

Hausdame Fennimore

Stage director (+4)

Nicola Beller Carbone

Frau von Luber

Opéra national de Lorraine

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Orchestra

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Revival Stage Director

Fanny Gilbert Collet

Lighting designer

Rainer Casper

Assistant Stage Director

Stage director (+1)

Alixe Durand Saint Guillain

Translator

Ruth Orthmann

Soprano

Anne-Élodie Sorlin

Soprano (+3)

Inna Jeskova

1. Verkäuferin

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Séverine Maquaire

2. Verkäuferin

Singer

Yanis Bouferrache

Arzt

Der dicke Landjäger

Le directeur artistique

Anna Moriot

Journaliste, mutant·e·s, policiers, infirmières, juges

Hélène Ruzic

Irina Pierson

You are not yet free from the obligation to live.
The Silver Lake
It needed a director at the height of this crazy play and Ersan Mondtag, the new darling of German theater, does not deserve it. With spectacular sets and exuberant costumes, he electrifies this play and gives it back its burning topicality in a Europe plagued by the return of nationalisms.

The breathtaking success of this production - prize for the best European co-production by the Syndicat français de la critique - owes a lot to the actor Benny Claessens who carries it with a beating drum. A real beast of the stage, this Flemish cut his teeth in Belgium before becoming one of the leading actors of the Kammerspiele in Munich and then of the Schaubühne in Berlin. During the Premiere at the Antwerp Opera, we witnessed his ability to turn the hall into a replica.