2024 / AROP evening / Opera
14 May.

Opéra : Don Quichotte

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    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    2h25

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h45
  • 2nd part
    21h10
  • End of the performance
    22h05
After Cendrillon, Jules Massenet’s music is once again in the limelight with Don Quichotte, his last opera – created in 1910 for the Russian bass Shaliapin – a work that has not been performed at the Opéra Bastille for over 20 years. The composer retained only a few of the main emblematic episodes of Cervantes’ lavish novel: Don Quixote’s love for Dulcinea, his knightly ways that lead him to pursue brigands in order to recover her necklace, his battle with the windmills and his death as he lies beside his servant Sancho Panza. Inspired by this refined and moving music, director Damiano Michieletto’s new production seeks to reveal the poetry of Don Quixote, but also his suffering. That of a deeply lonely man, haunted by his memories.

Don Quichotte

Don Quichotte - Damiano Michieletto

  • Music

    Jules Massenet
    (1842 – 1912)

  • Conductor
    Patrick Fournillier
  • Chorus master
    Ching-Lien Wu

  • Libretto

    Henri Cain

  • Director

    Damiano Michieletto

  • Set design

    Paolo Fantin

  • Costume design

    Agostino Cavalca

  • Lighting design

    Alessandro Carletti

  • Video

    Roland Horvath / rocafilm

  • Choreography

    Thomas Wilhelm

Cast

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Gaëlle
Arquez

La Belle Dulcinée

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Christian Van
Horn

Don Quichotte

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Étienne
Dupuis

Sancho Pança

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Emy
Gazeilles

Pedro

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Marine
Chagnon

Garcias

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Samy
Camps

Rodriguez

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Nicholas
Jones

Juan

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Young-Woo
Kim

Deux serviteurs

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Hyunsik
Zee

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

With the exceptional support of Aline Foriel-Destezet

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