Organization

Singer

Baritone

Dean Murphy

Jean

Mezzo-soprano

Irene Roberts

Julie

Soprano

Lisa Mostin

Christine

Stage director

Silvia Costa

Marie-Louise Bischofberger

Conductor

Emilio Pomárico

Lighting designer

Marco Giusti

Costume designer

Laura Dondoli

Set designer

Dramaturge

Simon Hatab

Opéra de Dijon

Opéra national de Lorraine

Orchestra

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine

Dijon

France

Grand Théâtre

Public

Approved

Julie Boesmans

🔥💃 Avec l’aide de Luc Bondy et de Marie-Louise Bischofberger, Philippe Boesmans a tiré de la pièce de Strindberg, un classique contemporain en un acte, un ...

When a young and decadent bourgeois woman meets her valet in the kitchen of the castle and begins to seduce him, it is not far from vaudeville. But the drama has only just begun, and the trap of closed doors does not take long to close ... 

“The temperament of each character”, confides Philippe Boesmans, “is expressed above all by his vocal line. The Belgian composer adds that he was fully aware of this when he was commissioned to orchestrate Le Coronnement de Poppée for the Opéra de la Monnaie: the example of Monteverdi then succeeded in convincing him that the lyrical art demands of everyone. figure that she carries a singular voice. This voice can also evolve according to the dramatic movement. Julie, seductress and domineering, attacks her role by developing a rather ornate style, but as she approaches a more sincere register, her singing becomes more stripped down. The baritone of Jean, his servant, translates in turn his youth, his weakness, but also the frustration induced by his social inferiority, while the soprano of Kristin, his wife,

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