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Tenor (+4)

Éric Huchet

Falsacappa

Soprano (+2)

Daphne Touchais

Fiorella

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Julie Boulianne

Fragoletto

Baritone (+4)

Francis Dudziak

Le Baron de Campo Tasso

Tenor (+5)

Martial Defontaine

Duke of Mantua

Franck Leguérinel

Pietro

Tenor (+1)

Léonard Pezzino

Carmagnola

Tenor (+3)

Loïc Félix

Antonio

Philippe Talbot

Le Comte de Gloria Cassis

Baritone (+3)

Ronan Debois

Le Précepteur

Bass (+1)

Fernand Bernardi

Captain of the guard

Bass (+2)

Antoine Garcin

Barbavano

Thomas Morris

Domino

Marc Molomot

Adolphe de Valladolid

Soprano (+6)

Christine Rigaud

Zerlina

Duchesse

Michèle Lagrange

Princesse de Grenade

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Nicole Monestier

Pipetta

Pipetta/Une Espagnole sémillante/Une brigande/Une marquise licencieuse

Une marquise licencieuse

Conductor

Conductor (+4)

François-Xavier Roth

Stage director

Set designer (+2)

Macha Makeïeff

Actor (+3)

Jérôme Deschamps

Set designer

Françoise Darne

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Marie-Christine Soma

Tenor

Jean-Marc Martinez

Pipo

Chorus

Toulon Opera Choir

Orchestra

Les Siècles

Opéra-Comique

Opéra Comique

Les Brigands -  (The Bandits)

Paris

France

Salle Bizet

“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the talents of stage directors Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps (members of the wildly successful French comedy troupe Les Deschiens) and the accomplished music director François-Xavier Roth.

When Les Brigands had its 1869 premiere, Jacques Offenbach was Paris's reigning king of the operetta. Since 1855 he had made his living creating a brilliant musical satire about the Napoleon III and his Second French Empire, and reaped considerable rewards for his universally beloved work. Set to a libretto of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (who would later collaborate with Bizet to produce Carmen), Offenbach’s newest creation lampooned both the world of theater and French society with a cheerfully amoral plot: more complex than that of most Offenbach operettas, the story follows a band of brigands led by their chief, Falsacappa, as they attempt to steal the fortune of the Duke of Mantua. The new work was a great success, but the outbreak of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War was the beginning of the end of this happy phase of the composer’s career: his imperial connections and German birth would transform him into an enemy in the context of wartime, casting a shadow over the latter part of his career.

Photo: © Martin Fraudreau

Les Brigands Offenbach

Staged

Operetta

The Bandits

Béarla

Fraincis

LES BRIGANDSOpéra bouffe en trois actes de Jacques Offenbach, 1869.DU 22 JUIN AU 2 JUILLET 2011 à l'Opéra ComiqueFrançois-Xavier Roth, direction musicaleMach...

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