Yes ! à l’Athénée, on acquiesce !

By Tristan Labouret, 27 December 2019

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“les membres de la Compagnie Les Brigands se démultiplient, tant scéniquement que musicalement”

Reviewed at Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet: Grande Salle, Paris on 26 December 2019

Yvain, Yes !

Les Brigands

Vladislav Galard, Director

François Gauthier-Lafaye, Set Designer

Benjamin Moreau, Costume Designer

Éric Boucher, René Gavard

Célian d'Auvigny, Maxime Gavard

Mathieu Dubroca, César

Flannan Obé, Roger

Clarisse Dalles, Totte

Caroline Binder, Loulou, Lady Winchester

Anne-Emmanuelle Davy, Mme de St-Aiglefin

Gilles Bugeaud, M. de St-Aiglefin

Emmanuelle Goizé, Marquita Negri

Bogdan Hatisi, Director

Paul-Marie Barbier, Piano, Vibraphone

Matthieu Bloch, Double Bass

Thibault Perriard, Percussion, Piano

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.