Watch online on play.operadeparis.frOpéra national de ParisRecorded at Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, Paris, France
Requires subscription
Dates/times in your browser's time zone
On demand until Friday 20 May 2039 23:59Programme
| Massenet, Jules (1842-1912) | Don Quichotte |
Performers
| Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Patrick Fournillier | Conductor | |
| Damiano Michieletto | Director | |
| Paolo Fantin | Set Designer | |
| Agostino Cavalca | Costume Designer | |
| Alessandro Carletti | Lighting Designer | |
| Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Roland Horvath | Video | |
| rocafilm | Video | |
| Thomas Wilhelm | Choreography | |
| Ching-Lien Wu | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
| Christian Van Horn | Bass-baritone | Don Quichotte |
| Gaëlle Arquez | Mezzo-soprano | Dulcinée |
| Étienne Dupuis | Baritone | Sancho Pança |
| Emy Gazeilles | Soprano | Pedro |
| Marine Chagnon | Soprano | Garcias |
| Samy Camps | Tenor | Rodriguez |
| Nicholas Jones | Tenor | Juan |
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.
Reviews of Don Quichotte directed by Damiano Michieletto
