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2021 / AROP evening / Opera
23 Sep.

Œdipe

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Première

    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    3h05

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h50
  • 2nd part
    21h20
  • End of the performance
    22h35

In 1909, after attending a performance of Œdipus Rex at the Comédie-Française, George Enescu hastened to transcribe the first bars of his one and only opera. Sophocles’ play had the effect of an electroshock on the Romanian composer, spurring him to begin work on his score before he even had a libretto. The completed work would ultimately have its world premiere at the Paris Opera in 1936. The influences of his teacher Fauré, of Stravinsky, Debussy and Romania’s ancestral musical traditions all fuelled an orchestral and vocal composition of unparalleled originality. Surprisingly, despite receiving a rapturous reception, the work was rarely staged at opera houses during the 20th century. For his Paris Opera debut, Wajdi Mouawad evokes the life of Œdipus – the man unaware of his own identity – in a continuum of organic, vegetal, ethereal and aquatic images.

Œdipe

Œdipe - Wajdi Mouawad

  • Music

    Georges Enesco
    (1881-1955)

  • Conductor
    Ingo Metzmacher
  • Chorus master
    Ching-Lien Wu

  • Libretto

    Edmond Fleg

  • Director

    Wajdi Mouawad

  • Set design

    Emmanuel Clolus

  • Costume design

    Emmanuelle Thomas

  • Lighting

    Éric Champoux

  • Video

    Stéphane Pougnand

  • Dramaturgy

    Charlotte Farcet

Cast

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Christopher
Maltman

Œdipe

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Clive
Bayley

Tirésias

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Brian
Mulligan

Créon

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Vincent
Ordonneau

Le berger

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Laurent
Naouri

Le grand prêtre

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Nicolas
Cavallier

Phorbas / Le Veilleur

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Adrian
Timpau

Thésée

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Yann
Beuron

Laïos

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Ekaterina
Gubanova

Jocaste

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Clémentine
Margaine

La Sphinge

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Anna-Sophie
Neher

Antigone

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Anne Sofie von
Otter

Mérope

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Daniela
Entcheva

Une Thébaine

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

Œdipe has been filmed by director François Roussillon, as a coproduction by the Paris Opera and François Roussillon et Associés, with the support of the CNC and the Orange Foundation - sponsor of the audiovisual broadcastings at the Paris Opera. The performance will be broadcast live on October 14 at 7:30 pm on Medici.tv and on L'Opéra chez soi, the Paris Opera’s digital platform, and later on Mezzo Live HD Sunday 17 October 2021 at 9 pm.

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