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Video streamed event and on demand: SamsonEstreno absoluto

Ver on-line en www.arte.tvGrabado en Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence, Francia
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viernes 12 julio 202421:30
On demand until lunes 11 enero 2027 23:59Festival: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Programa
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)Samson (created by Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon)
Intérpretes
Raphaël PichonDirección
Claus GuthDirección de escena
Étienne PlussDiseño de escena
Ursula KudrnaDiseño de vestuario
Bertrand CoudercDiseño de iluminación
Ensemble Pygmalion
Mathis NitschkeDiseño de sonido
rocafilmVideoarte
Yvonne GebauerDramaturgia
Sommer UlricksonCoreografía
Jarrett OttBarítonoSamson
Jacquelyn StuckerSopranoDalila
Lea DesandreMezzosopranoTimna
Nahuel Di PierroBajo-barítonoAchisch
Laurence KilsbyTenorElon
Julie RosetSopranoL'Ange
Antonin RondepierreTenorUn convive
Andréa FerréolActorLa mère de Samson

When, in 1733, Voltaire, the most brilliant mind of his day, collaborates with Rameau, its greatest composer, in undertaking an ambitious reform of operatic practice, the result is the biblical opera Samson. But the libretto is condemned and the score lost – possibly reworked here and there in later compositions. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon, haunted by this interesting project that had turned into one of the most intriguing failures in operatic history, have tried, not to recreate the letter, but to revive the spirit: to marry a strong, noble libretto with the most eloquent music. Samson is the chosen of God, but his extraordinary strength isolates him as much as it marks him out: a succession of failed love affairs turns him into a destructive force, making this biblical Hercules the first suicidal to be a mass murderer. Supporting Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker and Lea Desandre in the principal roles, the Pygmalion chorus and orchestra become important actors in a fresco that is both sublime and astonishingly modern.

Críticas de Samson dirigida por Claus Guth

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