Name: Le Soulier de Satin
Start: 2021-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palais Garnier

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Organization

Chanteur

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Don Camille

Baryton-basse

Luca Pisaroni

Don Rodrigue

Mezzo-soprano

Eve-Maud Hubeaux

Doña Prouhèze

Baryton

Marc Labonnette

Le Père Jésuite

Le Roi D'espagne

Saint Denys

Almagro

Deuxième Soldat

Contre-ténor

Max Emanuel Cencic

L'ange Gardien

Saint Jacques

Saint Adlibitum

Ténor

Yann Beuron

Don Pélage

Basse

Nicolas Cavallier

Don Balthazar

Saint Nicolas

Frère Léon

Soprano

Vannina Santoni

Doña Musique

La Bouchère

Julien Dran

Le Vice-Roi de Naples

Don Ramire

Béatrice Uria Monzon

Doña Isabel

Doña Honoria

La Religieuse

Éric Huchet

Le Sergent Napolitain

Don Rodilard

Premier Soldat

Camille Poul

Doña Sept-Épées

Direction d'orchestre

Marc-André Dalbavie

Mise en scène

Stanislas Nordey

Décors

Emmanuel Clolus

Costumes

Raoul Fernandez

Lumières

Philippe Berthomé

Dramaturgie

Raphaèle Fleury

Chorégraphie

Loïc Touzé

Daniele Guaschino

Artistic Collaboration in the staging

Claire Ingrid Cottanceau

Saint Boniface

Fanny Ardant

La Lune

Opéra National de Paris

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Video

Stéphane Pougnand

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Le Soulier de Satin

Paris

France

Palais Garnier

A Paris Opera commission, inspired by Paul Claudel’s celebrated stage play— from the spectacular Palais Garnier!

The Satin Slipper is a tale of forbidden love between Doña Prouhèze (played by the marvelous Ève-Maud Hubeaux) and Don Rodrigo (the great Luca Pisaroni). Though the duo’s love is the plot’s chief concern, however, the two rarely appear onstage together: Doña Prouhèze, indeed, seeks to save Don Rodrigo from an adulterous passion by pushing him to wander the world all throughout his life—the work takes place across decades and continents, creating an intense and vertiginous atmosphere that draws the spectator in little by little.

For composer and conductor Marc-André Dalbavie, Claudel’s play is utterly singular: lasting nine hours, it is the product of diverse influences, from Spanish theatre (in its format, spread out over four “days”) to Japanese Noh (in the variety of genres, tragedy coexisting with levity, even comedy). The language is musical, the framing and characters grandiose, and the composer set himself the task of adapting the source text while maintaining the uncommonly long running time—an indispensable part of the experience, in his view: “This story cannot be told in one or two hours,” Dalbavie says, “it takes time to make a unified whole out of such divergent styles and genres.” He then composed the music (incorporating traditional instruments from many different nations and cultures to evoke the world travels of Don Rodrigo), while librettist Raphaèle Fleury set the text, a Herculean feat of adaptation.

This world premiere by the Paris Opera represents the third installment in their French literature cycle begun in 2017. Under the baton of Marc-André Dalbavie himself, the impeccable Paris Opera Orchestra allows the sublime soloists to shine in a production for the ages.

"The Satin Shoe"

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"The subject of Le Soulier de satin is that of the Chinese legend of the two stellar lovers who, each year, after long wanderings, manage to confront each other, without ever being able to meet, on one side and on the other. of the Milky Way", summed up Paul Claudel. The play, whose power of attraction has never been denied, occupies a special place in the theatrical repertoire of the 20th century: written between 1919 and 1924, it was created by Jean-Louis Barrault in 1943 in an abridged version and had to wait for Antoine Vitez to be played in its entirety: the show given in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes in 1987 lasted more than ten hours and marked a whole generation of spectators, including Marc-André Dalbavie. Subtitled The worst is not always certain, Le Soulier de satin is an immense parable alternating between the sublime, the comic and the disturbing, deployed in an era – the Spanish Golden Age – when humanity is experiencing a first “globalization”. Confronting the passionate desire for individual happiness, the injunction of the external imperative and the aspiration to the universal, the work installs the spectator between hypnosis and joy for several hours. This new opera is the third of the world premieres commissioned by the Paris Opera making up the cycle on French literature.https://www.operadeparis.fr/saison-20...

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