Ariodante

Ariodante - Robert Carsen

• Conductor

  Harry Bicket; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Georg Friedrich Haendel
  (1685 - 1759)

• Libretto

  Adaptation anonyme

• Director

  Robert Carsen

• Set and lighting design

  Robert Carsen

• Set design and Costume design

  Luis F. Carvalho

• Lighting design

  Peter Van Praet

• Choreography

  Nicolas Paul

If Handel were alive today, he would be termed resilient. In 1734‑1735, when the public had cooled towards him and his contract with the King’s Theatre drew to a close, the composer began to write Ariodante, an “opera seria” intended for the opening of the brand new Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. As if galvanised by adversity, he produced a radiant work, as virtuoso as the libretto, drawn from an episode of Arioste’s Orlando Furioso, is simple: Ginevra, a Scottish princess, is in love with Ariodante to whom she is betrothed, but a conspiracy led by the traitor Polinesso results in her being accused of infidelity. As well as giving us Handel’s most beautiful lament, this inspired score abounds throughout in virtuoso arias and breathes theatrical intelligence. Enough to inspire Robert Carsen who, in the wake of his legendary Paris Opera production of Alcina, composed the same year, signs a new production of Ariodante.

The English Concert
The Paris Opera Chorus
A coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera, New-York

Ariodante fait l’objet d’une captation, réalisée par Floris Bernard, produite par l’Opéra national de Paris, avec le soutien de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris, et sera retransmis en direct le 11 mai 2023 sur la plateforme de l’Opéra national de Paris : Paris Opera Play.

Ariodante sera diffusé le samedi 27 mai 2023 sur France Musique à 20 h dans l’émission «  Samedi à l’Opéra  », présentée par Judith Chaine.

Ariodante

Ariodante - Robert Carsen

• Ariodante

  Emily D'Angelo

• Il Re di Scozia

  Matthew Brook

• Ginevra

  Olga Kulchynska

• Lurcanio

  Eric Ferring

• Polinesso

  Christophe Dumaux

• Dalinda

  Tamara Banjesevic

• Odoardo

  Enrico Casari