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Opéra national de Lorraine

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Sora Elisabeth Lee

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Guillaume Fauchère

Stage director

Anthony Almeida

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Basia Bińkowska

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Franck Evin

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Anaïk Morel

Susanna

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Rosie Aldridge

Klementia

Orchestra

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Bass (+6)

Joshua Bloom

Bluebeard

Judith

Bass-baritone (+7)

Yannis François

Un valet

Soprano (+1)

Apolline Raï-Westphal

Une servante

Alto

Soprano

Baritone

Singer

Salma-Faïhrouz Jacquot-Anseur

Une fillette

Adèle Thirion

Choirs Of The Conservatoire Régional Du Grand Nancy

Choreographer

Choreographer (+2)

Rosabel Huguet

Assistant Choreographer

Assistant Stage Director

Stage director (+1)

Alixe Durand Saint Guillain

Language Coach

Soprano (+2)

Borbála Szuromi

Assistant Music Director

Music director

Silvina Peruglia Nogues

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Séverine Maquaire

Die alte Nonne

Claire Wauthion

A woman

To open the season, this evening, consecrated to the transgression of things forbidden, combines three rare works in a single artistic endeavour. Sancta Susanna streaked through the skies of opera like a meteor one evening in March 1922. Driven by a burning desire, a nun strips naked and embraces the statue of Christ. This thirty-minute work, never performed, caused a scandal when it premiered at the Frankfurt Opera and provoked the fury of the Church. The sultry deeds of Sancta Susanna are matched by Judith's thirst for knowledge: Bluebeard's Castle is a disquieting “huis clos”, a confrontation between Bluebeard and his wife who obliges her jailer to open the doors of his castle one by one, to the point of no return... To accompany this plunge into the unknown, Bartók composed a spellbinding nocturnal score, imbued with fantasised Hungarian folklore. Honegger's Danse des morts, another little-known if not unknown work, completes the evening. In this choral work composed to a poem by Claudel, the dead become a joyful and subversive community. The composer plays with the frontiers between scholarly and popular music, incorporating unexpected songs such as Sur le pont d'Avignon into his inferno.

Winner of the European Opera Director Prize, Anthony Almeida presents a woman at three different stages of her life. Each piece depicts one of the social rituals - baptism, marriage and death - that punctuate her existence. This modern-day heroine becomes the common thread in this fiery triptych.

Héroïne Hindemith, Bartók, Honegger

Cast

SusannaSaint Susanna

KlementiaSaint Susanna

A kékszakállú hercegBluebeard's Castle

JuditBluebeard's Castle

Un valetSaint Susanna

Une servanteSaint Susanna

AltoLa Danse des morts

SopranoLa Danse des morts

BaritoneLa Danse des morts

Une filletteLa Danse des morts

Die alte NonneSaint Susanna

A womanLa Danse des morts

Crew

Stage directorAll programme

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ConductorAll programme

Set designerAll programme

Costume designerAll programme

ChorusmasterAll programme

Lighting designerAll programme

ChoreographerBluebeard's Castle

Assistant ChoreographerAll programme

Language CoachAll programme

Assistant Music DirectorAll programme

Instrumentation

Producer

Producer

Ensemble

OrchestraAll programme

ChorusSaint Susanna+1 more

ChorusLa Danse des morts

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Susanna
Saint Susanna

Klementia
Saint Susanna

A kékszakállú herceg
Bluebeard's Castle

Judit
Bluebeard's Castle

Un valet
Saint Susanna

Une servante
Saint Susanna

Alto
La Danse des morts

Soprano
La Danse des morts

Baritone
La Danse des morts

Une fillette
La Danse des morts

Die alte Nonne
Saint Susanna

A woman
La Danse des morts

Stage director
All programme

Assistant Stage Director
All programme

Conductor
All programme

Set designer
All programme

Costume designer
All programme

Chorusmaster
All programme

Lighting designer
All programme

Choreographer
Bluebeard's Castle

Assistant Choreographer
All programme

Language Coach
All programme

Assistant Music Director
All programme

Orchestra
All programme

Chorus
Saint Susanna
+1 more

Chorus
La Danse des morts