Bergman à l'opéra : Fanny and Alexander à La Monnaie

Fanny and Alexander à La Monnaie

By Patrice Lieberman, 10 December 2024

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“c’est un très original cadeau de fin d’année que fait la maison bruxelloise à son public”

Reviewed at La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels on 8 December 2024

Karlsson, Fanny and Alexander

La Monnaie | De Munt

Ariane Matiakh, Conductor

Ivo van Hove, Director

Jan Versweyveld, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

An D'Huys, Costume Designer

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Ash, Video

Susan Bullock, Helena Ekdahl

Sasha Cooke, Emilie Ekdahl

Thomas Hampson, Bishop Edward Vergerus

Peter Tantsits, Oscar Ekdahl

Anne Sofie von Otter, Justina

Loa Falkman, Isak Jacobi

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Ismaël

Alexander Sprague, Aron

Justin Hopkins, Carl Ekdahl

Polly Leech, Lydia

Gavan Ring, Gustav Adolf Ekdahl

Margaux de Valensart, Alma Ekdahl

Marion Bauwens, Paulina

Blandine Coulon, Esmeralda

Lucie Penninck, Boy soprano

Jay Weiner, Boy soprano

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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.