Un Orfeo visuellement trop sage à l'Opéra Comique

By Stéphane Lelièvre, 11 June 2021

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“l’histoire (...) n’atteint guère les dimensions du mythe terrible qui la sous-tend”

Reviewed at Opéra Comique, Paris on 9 June 2021

Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318

Opéra-Comique

Jordi Savall, Conductor

Pauline Bayle, Director

Emmanuel Clolus, Set Designer

Bernadette Villard, Costume Designer

Pascal Noël, Lighting Designer

Marc Mauillon, Orfeo

Luciana Mancini, Euridice, La musica

Marianne Beate Kielland, La speranza, Proserpina

Salvo Vitale, Caronte, Plutone

Furio Zanasi, Apollo

Sara Mingardo, La messaggiera

Lise Viricel, Ninfa

Alessandro Giangrande, Eco

Le Concert des Nations

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****1

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****1

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Stéphane Lelièvre

Stéphane Lelièvre est maître de conférences en littérature comparée. Il est responsable de l’équipe « Littérature et musique » du Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée à la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Universités. Spécialiste des romantismes allemand et français, il s’intéresse d’une manière générale aux liens entre les lettres et la musique, et donc particulièrement à l’opéra.