Sweeney Todd by Sondheim, sø. 06 juli 2025, Fra (2025/2025), I regi av Barrie Kosky, Dirigent Bassem Akiki, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, France

In the 19th century , Great Britain became passionate about penny dreadfuls, these macabre stories inspired by real events published in serial form. From this guilty pleasure was born the character of Sweeney Todd, to whom the English playwright Christopher Bond invented in 1970 a past and motivations inspired by certain episodes of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Barber of Seville. Nine years later, it is the turn of the brilliant Stephen Sondheim to immortalize the vengeance of the barber of Fleet Street with a score that is both epic and fanciful. After the success of West Side Story in 2022, the truculent Barrie Kosky returns to Sondheim and the stages of the Opéra national du Rhin with this thrilling and hilarious musical thriller, led by Scott Hendricks and Natalie Dessay under the direction of Bassem Akiki.