2019 / AROP evening / Opera

28 Nov.

Le Prince Igor

Première

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

3h45

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h45

2nd part

21h15

End of the performance

23h10

Borodin’s only opera, this great Russian epic, best known for its Polovtsian Dances, questions the responsibilities of a leader with regard to his people. Having ceded power to his despotic brother‑in-law in order to go to war, Igor is taken prisoner with his son. From his refusal to negotiate with the enemy to his return home, the prince’s deeds invite us to reconsider our own moral values. By divesting the work of folklore of the most elementary kind, Barrie Kosky’s production highlights a universal need for ethics.

Prince Igor

Production de 2018

Music

Alexandre Borodine
(Editions Belaieff)
Libretto

Alexandre Borodine
d’après Vladimir Stassov, lui-même adapté du Dit de l’ost d’Igor
Conductor

Philippe Jordan
Director

Barrie Kosky
Set design

Rufus Didwiszus
Costume design

Klaus Bruns
Lighting design

Franck Evin
Choreography

Otto Pichler
Chorus master

José Luis Basso