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2018 / AROP evening / Opera
29 Sep.

Bérénice

Première

    Palais Garnier

    20h

    Duration
    1h30

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  • Opening of the performance
    20h00
  • End of the performance
    21h30

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.

Berenice

Production de 2018 - Michael Jarrell

  • Music

    Michael Jarrell

  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • 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

Cast

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Bo
Skovhus

Titus

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Barbara
Hannigan

Bérénice

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Ivan
Ludlow

Antiochus

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Alastair
Miles

Paulin

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Julien
Behr

Arsace

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Rina
Schenfeld

Phénice

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