Name: Les Huguenots
Start: 2022-06-18
End: 2022-06-18
Location: La Monnaie

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Lenneke Ruiten

Queen Marguerite of Valois

Karine Deshayes

Valentine

Ambroisine Bré

Urbain

Tenor

Enea Scala

Raoul de Nangis

Baritone

Nicolas Cavallier

Count de Saint-Bris

Maxime Melnik

Bois-Rosé

Luca Dall'Amico

Maurevert

Valentin Thill

Count of Tavannes

Pierre Derhet

Count of Cossé

Patrick Bolleire

Count of Thoré

Yoann Dubruque

Count of Retz

Jean Luc Ballestra

Count of Méru

Blandine Coulon

Queen's maid of honor

Emmanuel Junk

Margaux de Valensart

Bohémienne

Stage director

Olivier Py

Conductor

Evelino Pidò

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Costume designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Set designer

Chorus master

Emmanuel Trenque

Bass

Alexander Vinogradov

Valet

Fiorella Hincapié

Vittorio Prato

Count de Nevers

La Monnaie/De Munt

Opéra National du Rhin

Others

Académie des chœurs de la Monnaie s.l.d. de Benoît Giaux

Orchestra

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Orchestre symphonique et chœurs de la Monnaie

La Monnaie Chorus

choir academy sld de Benoît Giaux

Prospero mm productions

French

Les Huguenots -  (The Huguenots)

Brussels

Belgium

La Monnaie

Les Huguenots Meyerbeer

Public

The Huguenots

Dutch

Approved

Eleven years after its first successful run at La Monnaie, Olivier Py’s staging of ‘Les Huguenots’ returns to Brussel this summer. A golden, opulent ‘grand o...

In June 2022, director Olivier Py returns to La Monnaie with his staging of ‘Les Huguenots’ by Giacomo Meyerbeer. It marks his sixth visit to our opera house, after the creation of the original 'Huguenots' production in 2011, 'Hamlet' (2013), ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’ (2017), ‘Lohengrin’ (2018) and 'La Gioconda' (2019). We went in search of the artistic credo underlying his art and his work at La Monnaie.

As much a historical panorama as an intimate drama, Les Huguenots tells the story of the impossible love between a Catholic and a Protestant in the context of the religious wars that set France ablaze in the sixteenth century, reaching a bloody climax with the St Bartholomew’s day massacre. The 2011 La Monnaie production was a major event, presenting the score in all its extravagance, rich in dramatic contrasts, and altering perceptions of the length of the performance. It helped to usher in a return to the international music scene of ‘French grand opera’, a key musical genre that was omnipresent for much of the nineteenth century. More than a decade after he first offered his vision of the work, the director Olivier Py will bring his influential production back to life with an entirely new cast. Following his success in our production of Robert le diable in 2019, the conductor Evelino Pidò will lead the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra.

English

Aussi bien fresque historique que drame intime, Les Huguenots raconte une histoire d’amour impossible entre une catholique et un protestant dans le contexte des guerres de religion qui ont embrasé la France au XVIe siècle, surtout au cours de la tristement célèbre nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy. En 2011, la Monnaie créait l’événement en montant cette partition de la démesure, riche en contrastes dramatiques et instaurant un rapport particulier au temps de la représentation. Cette production participait au retour sur la scène musicale internationale du « grand opéra français », genre musical déterminant – voire omniprésent – pendant une grande partie du XIXe siècle. Plus d’une décennie après avoir proposé sa vision de l’œuvre, le metteur en scène Olivier Py redonnera vie à son spectacle phare avec une distribution entièrement renouvelée. Evelino Pidò, qui avait dirigé notre orchestre avec maestria dans Robert le diable en 2019, sera au pupitre.

français

The Huguenots by Meyerbeer, Sat 18 Jun 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Olivier Py,, Conductor Evelino Pidò, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

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