AROP evening — Opera

Castor et Pollux

28 Jan. 2025

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  • 3h50 with 2 intermissions
  • Palais Garnier
  • Cocktail attire

Castor et Pollux

Castor et Pollux - Peter SELLARS

  • Conductor

    Teodor Currentzis; Vitaly Polonsky

  • Music

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

  • Libretto

    Pierre-Joseph Bernard

  • Director

    Peter Sellars

  • Lead choreographer

    Cal Hunt

  • Costume design

    Camille Assaf

  • Lighting design

    James F. Ingalls

  • Video

    Alex MacInnis

  • Dramaturgy

    Antonio Cuenca Ruiz

  • Set design collaboration

    Joëlle Aoun

  • Orchestra and Chorus

    Orchestre et Chœur Utopia

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the Académie royale and inspired by the mythological episode of the Gemini.

Rarely performed in its original version – the score was reworked by Rameau himself in 1754 –, this daring work plays on contrasts and expressiveness, as in the famous “Tristes apprêts”. The aria is sung by Télaïre mourning the death of her fiancé Castor, killed in battle, before her twin brother Pollux descends into the Underworld to ask his father, Jupiter, to bring him back to life.


While this opera celebrates brotherly love, its prologue poses an essential question for director Peter Sellars: how do you stop a war and its attendant hatred and resentment?

Orchestre et Choeurs Utopia

Castor et Pollux

Castor et Pollux - Peter SELLARS

  • Télaïre

    Jeanine De Bique

  • Phébé

    Stéphanie d’Oustrac

  • Castor

    Reinoud Van Mechelen

  • Pollux

    Marc Mauillon

  • Minerve, Une Suivante d’Hébé

    Claire Antoine

  • L’Amour, Le Grand-Prêtre, l’Athlète

    Laurence Kilsby

  • 19:30

    First part

  • 20:30

    Intermission cocktail

  • 20:50

    Second part

  • 21:45

    Intermission cocktail

  • 22:05

    Third part

  • 22:50

    End of the performance

  • 23:05

    Supper

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