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2023 / AROP evening / Opera
16 May.

Ariodante

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    Palais Garnier

    19h

    Duration
    3h55

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h00
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h05
  • 2nd part
    20h25
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h35
  • 3rd part
    21h55
  • End of the performance
    22h55

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.

Ariodante

Ariodante - Robert Carsen

  • Music

    Georg Friedrich Haendel
    (1685 - 1759)

  • Conductor
    Harry Bicket
  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • 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

Cast

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Emily
D'Angelo

Ariodante

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Matthew
Brook

Il Re di Scozia

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Olga
Kulchynska

Ginevra

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Eric
Ferring

Lurcanio

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Christophe
Dumaux

Polinesso

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Tamara
Banjesevic

Dalinda

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Enrico
Casari

Odoardo

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.