La Forza del destino

Production de 2018

• Conductor

  Jader Bignamini

• Music

  Giuseppe Verdi

• Libretto

  Francesco Maria Piave

• Director

  Jean-Claude Auvray

• Choreography

  Terry John Bates

• Set design

  Alain Chambon

• Costume design

  Maria Chiara Donato

• Lighting design

  Laurent Castaingt

• Collaboration to the choreograhy

  Paolo Ferri

• Chorus master

  Ching-Lien Wu

As the curtain rises, Don Alvaro makes ready to flee with Leonora. Alas, the two lovers are surprised by the young woman’s father. Alvaro throws his pistols to the ground but one of them goes off and kills the father: destiny is pitiless and laughs at men’s fates. A grand fresco full of plot twists in which the father’s curse overshadows all, La Forza del destino, like Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, is also a work of its time. In 1861, Verdi agreed to become a parliamentary deputy in order to pursue his political ideals. However, the Risorgimento was flagging and the composer was assailed by doubts. A certain dark melancholy suffuses the score, where the motif of destiny recurs throughout alongside the idea of redemption. In Jean‑Claude Auvray’s production, opera becomes a place where dreams shatter against the wall of reality whilst there emerges a fragile yet intoxicatingly beautiful song of hope.

Original production by Jean-Claude Auvray, revival directed by Stephen Taylor
Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec le Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelone

La Forza del destino

Production de 2018

• Il Marchese di Calatrava

  James Creswell

• Donna Leonora

  Anna Netrebko

• Don Carlo di Vargas

  Ludovic Tézier

• Don Alvaro

  Russell Thomas

• Preziosilla

  Elena Maximova

• Padre Guardiano

  Ferruccio Furlanetto

• Fra Melitone

  Nicola Alaimo

• Curra

  Julie Pasturaud

• Un Alcade

  Florent Mbia

• Maestro Trabuco

  Carlo Bosi

• Un chirurgo

  Hyun Sik Zee