Eyes Wide Shut à Bastille : le retour de La Flûte enchantée

By Georgiana Hatara, 30 April 2019

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“un opéra qui ne cesse d'envoûter et de surprendre par sa complexité et son ingéniosité”

Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, Paris on 27 April 2019

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Opéra national de Paris

Henrik Nánási, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director

Michael Levine, Set Designer

Petra Reinhardt, Costume Designer

Julien Behr, Tamino

Vannina Santoni, Pamina

Jodie Devos, Queen of the Night

Florian Sempey, Papageno

Nicolas Testé, Sarastro

Chiara Skerath, First Lady

Julie Robard-Gendre, Second Lady

Elodie Méchain, Third Lady

Martin Gantner, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)

Chloé Briot, Papagena

Mathias Vidal, Monostatos

Tomislav Lavoie, First Priest

Vincent Delhoume, Second Priest

Martin Homrich, First Armoured Man

Luke Stoker, Second Armoured Man

Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

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Georgiana Hatara

Georgiana Hatara a une formation pluridisciplinaire, en lettres modernes et linguistique, théâtre, cinéma et musicologie. Dans le cadre de ses études en musicologie, elle a notamment suivi au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris des cours d’esthétique et d’histoire de la musique, ainsi que d’analyse approfondie de musiques de films dans leur rapport à l’image (son domaine de prédilection). Elle a également suivi à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure des cours qui lui ont permis d’explorer le rapport que la musique entretient avec d’autres arts, comme la poésie et la danse, ou avec la philosophie.