AROP evening — Opera
© Julien Benhamou / OnP
La Forza del destino
15 Dec. 2022
- 3h50 with 2 intermissions
- Opéra Bastille
- Cocktail attire
La Forza del destino
Production de 2018
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Conductor
Jader Bignamini
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Music
Giuseppe Verdi
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Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
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Director
Jean-Claude Auvray
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Choreography
Terry John Bates
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Set design
Alain Chambon
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Costume design
Maria Chiara Donato
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Lighting design
Laurent Castaingt
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Collaboration to the choreograhy
Paolo Ferri
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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
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19:00
First part
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20:20
Intermission cocktail
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20:50
Second part
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21:50
Intermission cocktail
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22:10
Third part
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22:50
End of the performance
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23:05
Supper
La Force du destin (saison 22/23) - Acte2 - Ludovic Tézier
1 podcast
[EXTRAIT] LA FORZA DEL DESTINO by Verdi - "La Vergine degli Angeli" (Anna Pirozzi)
1 video
[EXTRAIT] LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, Verdi - Le minacce, i fieri accenti (Russell Thomas, Ludovic Tézier)
1 video
Les spectateurs de LA FORCE DU DESTIN réagissent au spectacle
1 video
[EXTRAIT] LA FORZA DEL DESTINO by Verdi - "Urna fatale del mio destino" (Ludovic Tézier)
1 video
[EXTRAIT] LA FORZA DEL DESTINO by Verdi - "Solenne in quest'ora" (Ludovic Tézier, Russell Thomas)
1 video