Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+1)

Daniel Carter

Mise en scène

Jakop Ahlbom

Décors

Katrin Bombe

Costumes

Katrin Wolfermann

Lumières

Ulrich Niepel

Chef de chœur

Direction d'orchestre (+2)

Jeremy Bines

Basse (+2)

Patrick Guetti

Don Quichotte

Baryton (+3)

Misha Kiria

Sancho

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Irene Roberts

La Belle Dulcinée

Soprano (+4)

Lexi Hutton

Pédro

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arianna Manganello

Garcias

Ténor (+3)

Kieran Carrel

Rodriguez

Baryton (+2)

Dean Murphy

Juan

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Chorus

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Ténor (+4)

Andrew Dickinson

With DON QUICHOTTE, Jules Massenet created a musical monument to world literature on the opera stage. Anything is possible in the titular hero's world, where windmill blades become giants, he takes on a horde of bandits and the beautiful Dulcinea returns his love. But the "knight of the sad figure" has to realize that his dreams have no place in the reality of others. The "Comédie heroique" DON QUICHOTTE, premiered in Monte Carlo in 1910, is Massenet's penultimate contribution to musical theater and in many respects a work about old age and death: the 68-year-old composer was himself marked by illness and brought the sheet music while lying in bed on paper. Not only with Don Quixote dying of a broken heart, at the end of life, Massenet asks how it can succeed, to make dreams of your own happiness come true. With the dazzling figure of Dulcinea, too, he tells how the fear of transience hides behind a facade of supposedly pure love of life.

DON QUICHOTTE is staged by the Amsterdam-based director, performer and magician Jakop Ahlbom, who is celebrated throughout Europe with his very special form of theatre. His productions combine pantomime, dance, music and illusion in a unique way and thrive on magical, surrealistic, nightmarish images, such as in the pieces VIELFALT [2006], INNENSCHAU [2010], LEBENSRAUM [2012] or most recently HORROR [2018].

Don Quichotte, Massenet

Distribution

Don Quichotte

Sancho Pança

Dulcinée

Pédro

Garcías

Rodriguez

Juan

Équipage

Mise en scène

Direction d'orchestre

Décors

Costumes

Chef de chœur

Lumières

Instrumentation

Producteur

Producteur

Ensemble

Orchestre

Chœur

Coproducteur

Photos

À propos de

Compositeur

Livret

Description

Synopsis de la Production