Name: The Nightingale and Other Fables
Start: 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Festival Theatre

Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Adelaide Festival

Canadian Opera Company

Chanteur

Baryton

Nabil Suliman

Chambellan

Andrew Goodwin

Tenor

Owen McCausland

Tenor - II

Taras Berezhansky

Bass

Baritone

Direction d'orchestre

Alejo Pérez

Mise en scène

Robert Lepage

Assistant Stage Director

Sybille Wilson

Décors

Carl Fillion

Costumes

Mara Gottler

Lumières

Etienne Boucher

Soprano

Yuliya Pogrebnyak

Voice

Mezzo-soprano

Meredith Arwady

Soloist

Contralto

Puppet Designer

Michael Curry

Chorégraphie

Martin Genest

Ténor

Le Pecheur

Yuliia Zasimova

Le rossignol

L'Empereur de Chine

Alto

La mort

La Cuisiniere

Opéra de Lyon

De Nationale Opera

Orchestra

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Others

State Opera South Australia Chorus

State Opera of South Australia

Basse

Jud Arthur

Le bonze

Robert Macfarlane

Premier émissaire japonais

Pelham Andrews

Deuxième émissaire japonais

Norbert Hohl

Troisième émissaire japonais

russe

The Nightingale and Other Fables

Adélaïde

Australie

Festival Theatre

The Nightingale and Other Fables: Le Rossignol Stravinsky (+4 More)

Public

Private

Le Rossignol, K018

Le Renard

2 Poems by Konstantin Balmont, K013

Pribaoutki, Chansons plaisantes

Berceuses du Chat

anglais

Valide

The world’s greatest directors can breathe new life into beloved classics. Few can do so like Robert Lepage.

Returning to Adelaide Festival for the first time since 2018, the internationally acclaimed Canadian auteur brings his brilliant imagination and a lush aesthetic to Igor Stravinsky’s The Nightingale and Other Fables.

The Nightingale, Stravinsky’s first opera, was written between 1908-13 during the composer’s Russian period, at the same time as he was working on some of his greatest masterpieces, such as The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, this enchanting work is blended with Russian fables and musical influences from Asia, Europe and early jazz from America.

Stories unfurl through acrobatic shadow play and Taiwanese hand puppets, before moving on to the ancient art of Vietnamese water puppetry for the spectacular telling of The Nightingale, set on a beautiful lake created in the confines of the theatre.

These stunning visual elements are the perfect complement to Stravinsky’s music, brought to life by a superb cast of singers from Ukraine, the United States, Canada and Australia, the State Opera South Australia Chorus and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. It’s a true feast for the senses.

With exquisite music, enchanting puppetry and captivating stories, this magical work combines the best of Stravinsky and the imagination of Lepage in a program that will delight audiences of all ages.

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