Berenice

Production de 2018 - Michael Jarrell

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Michael Jarrell

• Libretto

  Michael Jarrell

• Conductor

  Philippe Jordan

• Director

  Claus Guth

• Set design

  Christian Schmidt

• Costume design

  Christian Schmidt

• Costume design

  Linda Redlin

• Lighting design

  Fabrice Kebour

• Video

  rocafilm

• Dramaturgy

  Konrad Kuhn

Titus, passionately in love with Berenice, sends her away from Rome “in spite of himself and in spite of her”, recounts Suetonius. Racine places this famous narrative at the heart of his peerless tragedy, Berenice, whose simplicity of plot constitutes a literary tour de force. Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they try yet refuse to understand each other. Taking up the “majestic sadness” of these alexandrines, among the greatest verses in the French language, Michael Jarrell amplifies the power of words, making them a vehicle for spaces and identities that, from Rome to Jerusalem, are unceasingly questioned.

Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Berenice

Production de 2018 - Michael Jarrell

• Titus

  Bo Skovhus

• Bérénice

  Barbara Hannigan

• Antiochus

  Ivan Ludlow

• Paulin

  Alastair Miles

• Arsace

  Julien Behr

• Phénice

  Rina Schenfeld