Name: Sarrasine
Start: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsches Theater

Organization

Admin

Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen

Cantante

Myrsini Margariti

Mme de Rochefide

Samuel Mariño

Zambinella

Juan Sancho

Sarrasine

Sreten Manojlovic

Balzac

Recitazione

Florian Eppinger

Mr de Lanty

Ronny Thalmeyer

Viennese FOP

Marina Lara Poltmann

Mme de Lanty

Orchestra

FestspielOrchester Göttingen

Others

Chamberchoir of the Universität Göttingen

Direzione del coro

Antonius Adamske

Direzione d'orchestra

George Petrou

Regia

Laurence Dale

Costumi

Giorgina Germanou

Scenografia

Luci

John Bishop

Coreografia

Carmine De Amicis

Gottinga

Germania

Deutsches Theater

Sarrasine George Petrou | Laurence Dale

Public

Staged

Opera

Luis Mariano Nomdedeu

Approvato

Accordionist

Strumento

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianista

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Suonatore di flauto

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinista

Violino Piccolo Player

Violista

Altro

Ballando

Chorus Director

Composizione

Coro

Docente di canto

Drammaturgia

Emittente radiotelevisiva

Extra

Illustrator

Insegnante

Libretto

Maestro ripassatore

Orchestra Operations

Parrucco

Photographer

Poet

Produzione esecutiva

Stage Manager

Suono

Traduzione

Trucco

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzosoprano

Contralto

Basso

Soprano

Baritono

Basso-baritono

Controtenore

Tenore

Alto

Continuo

Mimi

Narrazione

Voce bianca

”À la Balzac” is what literary nerds call a story that follows the model of the “realistic” novel. This is just how much the French writer Honoré de Balzac shaped the literary genre. The whole world is reflected in his books, his characters behave like real people, and you look in vain for average characters in his work.

In the novella Sarrasine, Balzac merged two narrative threads into one parable: Madame de Rochefide is sauntering with the first-person narrator at a Paris ball. When the resident of the house appears, something bizarre happens: upon Madame’s touch, the old man begins to scream. Afterwards, she wants to learn all about him. In a secluded room, she finds out from her companion that the old man once performed in Rome as the opera singer Zambinella. The sculptor Sarrasine, who did not know that the singer was a castrated man, fell in love with her.

It is a story about the uncontrollability of love, says George Petrou, who, together with director Laurence Dale, is reviving the novella as a Handel opera. After all, gender-swapping and sexual ambiguities on stage were completely normal in the 18th century: sopranos embodied male title roles, male and female protagonists alike were portrayed by castrati. With their luminously brilliant voices, they were predestined for heroic roles and mistresses and they were pretty much idolized by the audience. Petrou has selected arias that Handel discarded when composing operas. Not because they were of inferior quality, according to the Artistic Director; they were downright masterpieces that Handel discarded at the time for dramaturgical reasons. Petrou collected them for years and has now rearranged them to Balzac’s narrative. He has created a piece of musical theater for the 21st century, with a text published in 1830 and shockingly good music from the 18th century. Balzac would have been thrilled by the “being all one” narrative.

English

Sarrasine by George Petrou, lun 20 mag 2024, Da (2024/2024), Diretto da Laurence Dale,, Direttore d'orchestra George Petrou, Deutsches Theater, Gottinga, Germania

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