Name: Elena
Start: 2013-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume

Admin

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Emőke Baráth

Elena

Venere

Countertenor

Valer Sabadus

Menelao

Tenor

Fernando Guimarães

Teseo

Mezzo-soprano

Solenn' Lavanant-Linke

Ippolita

Pallade

Rodrigo Ferreira

Peritoo

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

Anna Reinhold

Menesteo

La Pace

Bass

Scott Conner

Tindaro

Nettuno

Mariana Flores

Erginda

Giunone

Castore

Majdouline Zerari

Eurite

La Verita

Brendan Tuohy

Diomede

Creonte

Christopher Lowrey

Euripila

La Discordia

Polluce

Job Tomé

Antiloco

Conductor

Leonardo García Alarcón

Stage director

Jean-Yves Ruf

Set designer

Laure Pichat

Costume designer

Claudia Jenatsch

Lighting designer

Christian Dubet

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Others

Cappella Mediterranea

Elena -  (Helen)

Aix-en-Provence

France

Théâtre du Jeu de Paume

Elena at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence Festival: Cavalli's opera staged for the first time in 350 years!

Francesco Cavalli and the librettist-impresario Giovanni Faustini's collaboration gave birth to 10 operas. When he died in 1651, Faustini left several unfinished libretti, among which the opera Elena. Niccolo Minato completed it and a few years later, in 1659, the opera was premiered in Venice. Since then and in spite of its great success, the opera had never been performed anymore... until 2013! The Aix-en-Provence Festival brought back this masterpiece to life with a brand new staging by Jean-Yves Ruf.

The opera is a mythological drama which tells the story of Helen, whose stunning beauty caused passionate troubles...

Picture: Elena , Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2013 © Pascal Victor/ArtcomArt.

This program was initially broadcast live from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence on medici.tv on the 11th of July 2013.

Public

Helen

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading