Company

Singer

Soprano

Chiara Skerath

Ilia

Tenor

Jonathan Boyd

Idomeneo

Countertenor

Albane Carrère

Idamante

Serenad Burcu Uyar

Elettra

Antonio Mandrillo

Arbace

Yoann Le Lan

High priest of Neptune

Bass

Wojtek Śmiłek

The voice

Clelia Moreau

First Cretan woman

Julien Desplantes

First Trojan man

Augusto Garcia

Second Trojan man

Avignon

France

Opéra Grand Avignon

Débora Waldman

Conductor

Stage director

Sandra Pocceschi

Giacomo Strada

Lighting designer

Giacomo Gorini

Costume designer

Set designer

Orchestra

Choir

Choeur de l´Opéra Grand Avignon

Orchester National Avignon-Provence

Ninon Massery

Character/Vocal

Wiebke Nölting

Zita Syme

Sofia Vannini

Héloïse Sérazin

Public

Opera

Approved

A god, a father, a prince: where to look freedom ?
The war is over. Which ? The Trojan War – always her. But dramas call for dramas, fear kills. King Idomeneo of Crete fought alongside the Greeks and sailed victorious to his country. When a terrible storm seems to leave no hope of survival, Idomeneo, clinging to a last resort, invokes Neptune and promises him the sacrifice of the first person he meets, if he approaches his lands safe and sound. The sea suddenly calms down. As he sets foot on the beach, Idomeneo makes out a silhouette approaching…he's not sure…he squints under the sun…it's really him…it's his son.
 
And here is the tragic machine racing again.
She carries with her a large choir, a sea monster sowing terror and like a gust raised by the god of the seas, the whole of the 18th century and its old opera machines. Artifices that begin to rust, Mozart sees it well. The young Mozart is precisely no longer so young; we are in 1781, he is twenty-five years old and the heart ready to dare. He signs with this first opera of maturity a reflective, circumspect and at the same time liberating work.
His mother has just died and his father has ordered him to return from Paris to resume his post in Salzburg. The Prince-elector of Bavaria commissioned an opera seria, a highly codified genre, and chose a subject inherited from French lyrical tragedy, drawing on Greek mythology.
 
Authority imposes, Mozart disposes. A visionary, he modernized the form by blurring the alternation of recitatives and arias and by composing ensembles usually reserved for the comic style: duo, trio and great novelty, quartet. The opera seria breathes. We smell the first scents of the romantic hurricane that will soon capsize Europe.
 
Sandra Pocceschi and Giacomo Strada offer a dark spectacle where the high voices of the soloists are the lights of a dark and brutal world. Nathalie Gendrot

English

Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, From Opéra Grand Avignon (2022/2022), Directed by Sandra Pocceschi, Giacomo Strada,, Conductor Débora Waldman

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Opéra Grand Avignon

Débora Waldman

Sandra Pocceschi

Giacomo Strada

Cast

Chiara Skerath

Jonathan Boyd

Albane Carrère

Serenad Burcu Uyar

Antonio Mandrillo

Yoann Le Lan

Wojtek Śmiłek

Clelia Moreau

Julien Desplantes

Augusto Garcia

Ninon Massery

Clelia Moreau

Wiebke Nölting

Zita Syme

Crew

Giacomo Gorini

Sandra Pocceschi

Giacomo Strada

Sandra Pocceschi

Giacomo Strada

Ensemble

Choeur de l´Opéra Grand Avignon

Orchester National Avignon-Provence

Program, About & Synopsis

Further reading

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