MANON
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Sala Principal del Palau de les Arts
- Av. del Professor López Piñero, 1, 46013 València, Valencia, Spain
15oct7:30 pmMANONLES ARTS VALENCIA
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MANON Jules Massenet 1842-1912 CREATIVE TEAM Musical direction: James Gaffigan Stage direction: Vincent Huguet Scenography: Aurélie Master Costumes: Clemence Pernoud Lighting: Christopher Forey Choreography: Jean-Francois Kessler CAST Manon Lescaut: Lisette Oropesa Lescaut: Carlos Pachon The Chevalier des Grieux:
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MANON
Jules Massenet 1842-1912
CREATIVE TEAM
Musical direction: James Gaffigan
Stage direction: Vincent Huguet
Scenography: Aurélie Master
Costumes: Clemence Pernoud
Lighting: Christopher Forey
Choreography: Jean-Francois Kessler
CAST
Manon Lescaut: Lisette Oropesa
Lescaut: Carlos Pachon
The Chevalier des Grieux: Charles Castronovo
Le Comte Des Grieux: James Creswell
Guillot of Morfortaine: Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
Monsieur de Brétigny: Daniel Gallegos
Pousette: Antonella Zanetti
Javotte: Laura Fleur
Rosette: Esther Ferraro
Sirvienta: Holly Brown
L’Hôtelier: Volodymyr Morozov
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Director Francesc Perales
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Producció de l’Opéra national de Paris
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm
Location
Sala Principal del Palau de les Arts
Av. del Professor López Piñero, 1, 46013 València, Valencia, Spain
31oct8:00 pmJAMES' CHOICEKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN SYMPHONIC
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As a New Yorker by birth and Berliner by choice, Music Director James Gaffigan kicks off the new season with works by European composers in the USA. Erich Wolfgang
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As a New Yorker by birth and Berliner by choice, Music Director James Gaffigan kicks off the new season with works by European composers in the USA. Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Kurt Weill both had to leave Europe in the early 1930s because of their Jewish roots and found a new artistic home on American shores. Korngold, often mentioned in the same breath as Richard Strauss in his homeland, now devoted himself wholeheartedly to the new genre of film music, thereby becoming one of Hollywood’s defining figures.
Meanwhile, Kurt Weill, having often collaborated with Bertolt Brecht in Berlin, was now dedicating himself entirely to music theatre in New York, becoming a trailblazer in the emerging genre of musicals with works such as Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus.
But even at the turn of the century, great composers were already being drawn across the Atlantic. It was there that Antonín Dvořák composed not only his famous New World Symphony (No. 9), but also his equally extraordinary American Suite. Gustav Mahler likewise composed his Tenth Symphony in New York, as his final, unfinished work, thereby writing music history.
Time
(Thursday) 8:00 pm
Location
Konzerthaus Berlin – Großer Saal
Gendarmenmarkt 2 10117 Berlin
17nov6:00 pmSWEENEY TODDKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
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With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling
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With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling thriller by Stephen Sondheim about the bloody revenge inflicted by the legendary London barber Sweeney Todd. And in the role of meat-pie queen Mrs Lovett: the fabulous Dagmar Manzel!
London, in all its dreariness. Benjamin Barker, an upstanding barber of humble beginnings, is unjustly sentenced to a long prison term by Judge Turpin, who has his eye on Barker’s beautiful wife. Years later, Barker returns with only one thing on his mind: revenge. He learns from Mrs Lovett, the completely burnt-out but business-savvy owner of a meat-pie shop, that his wife has killed herself. And so Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, not only embarks on an extremely efficient campaign of revenge, he also joins forces with his informant to start a flourishing joint venture in the meat-pie business …
The story of the ‘demonic barber of Fleet Street’ who became a mass murderer first appeared in 1846 as a penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, and has since served as the basis for numerous dramatic and cinematic adaptations. In composing this thriller musical, Sondheim drew inspiration from film soundtracks as well as Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotif. Barrie Kosky stages his vision of this classic musical as a ‘children’s theatre nightmare collage’, revelling in that lust for horror, wavering between disgust and laughter, that has always fascinated audiences.
He mercilessly digs into the question of what humans are capable of when they follow the logic of revenge to the bitter end, and what’s at stake in the process.
BY THE WAY
Cannibalism has featured in myths and fairy tales since antiquity: Chronos eats his children, Titus Andronicus bakes his dead enemies into pies, and the wicked witch intends to eat Hansel for dinner.
Time
(Sunday) 6:00 pm
Location
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
21nov7:30 pmSWEENEY TODDKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
Event Details
With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling
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With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling thriller by Stephen Sondheim about the bloody revenge inflicted by the legendary London barber Sweeney Todd. And in the role of meat-pie queen Mrs Lovett: the fabulous Dagmar Manzel!
London, in all its dreariness. Benjamin Barker, an upstanding barber of humble beginnings, is unjustly sentenced to a long prison term by Judge Turpin, who has his eye on Barker’s beautiful wife. Years later, Barker returns with only one thing on his mind: revenge. He learns from Mrs Lovett, the completely burnt-out but business-savvy owner of a meat-pie shop, that his wife has killed herself. And so Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, not only embarks on an extremely efficient campaign of revenge, he also joins forces with his informant to start a flourishing joint venture in the meat-pie business …
The story of the ‘demonic barber of Fleet Street’ who became a mass murderer first appeared in 1846 as a penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, and has since served as the basis for numerous dramatic and cinematic adaptations. In composing this thriller musical, Sondheim drew inspiration from film soundtracks as well as Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotif. Barrie Kosky stages his vision of this classic musical as a ‘children’s theatre nightmare collage’, revelling in that lust for horror, wavering between disgust and laughter, that has always fascinated audiences.
He mercilessly digs into the question of what humans are capable of when they follow the logic of revenge to the bitter end, and what’s at stake in the process.
BY THE WAY
Cannibalism has featured in myths and fairy tales since antiquity: Chronos eats his children, Titus Andronicus bakes his dead enemies into pies, and the wicked witch intends to eat Hansel for dinner.
Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Location
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
