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La Forza del destino
Opéra Bastille
19h
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
La Forza del destino
Production de 2018
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Music
Giuseppe Verdi
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ConductorJader Bignamini
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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
Cast
Creswell
Il Marchese di Calatrava
Netrebko
Donna Leonora
Tézier
Don Carlo di Vargas
Thomas
Don Alvaro
Maximova
Preziosilla
Furlanetto
Padre Guardiano
Alaimo
Fra Melitone
Pasturaud
Curra
Mbia
Un Alcade
Bosi
Maestro Trabuco
Zee
Un chirurgo
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