Name: On purge bébé
Start: 2022-12-16
End: 2022-12-16
Location: La Monnaie

Organization

Conductor

Bassem Akiki

Stage director

Richard Brunel

Set designer

Etienne Pluss

Costume designer

Bruno de Lavenère

Lighting designer

Laurent Castaingt

Dramaturge

Catherine Ailloud-Nicolas

Singer

Soprano

Jodie Devos

Julie Follavoine

Mezzo-soprano

Sophie Pondjiclis

Clémence Chouilloux

Bass

Jérôme Varnier

Horace Truchet

Spoken

Tibor Ockenfels

Toto

Tenor

Carlos Natale

Aristide Chouilloux

Baritone

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Bastien Follavoine

Denzil Delaere

La Monnaie/De Munt

Opéra de Lyon

Théâtre du Châtelet

Orchestra

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Prospero mm productions

French

On purge bébé

Brussels

Belgium

La Monnaie

Public

Dutch

Approved

After Au monde and Pinocchio , the western hemisphere's most prolific opera composer wanted to write a slightly lighter opera. He found inspiration in Georges Feydeau, French author of numerous vaudevilles; with the director Richard Brunel, he made substantial cuts in the play On purge bébé (1910) to reduce it to the dimensions of an opera libretto. Monsieur, Madame and their tyrannical yet constipated son, Toto, have a crazy day during which chamber pots fly through the air. Porcelain isn't the only thing to shatter in this burlesque nightmare, petty-bourgeois appearances also happen… Good shit!

English

On purge bébé by Boesmans, Fri 16 Dec 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Richard Brunel,, Conductor Bassem Akiki, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

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