Mixed messages lost in the medium: Foccroulle's Cassandra

Katarina Bradić (Cassandra)

Jessica Niles (Sandra)

Jessica Niles (Sandra), Gidon Saks (Alexander), Susan Bickley (Victoria) and Sarah Defrise (Naomi)

Paul Appleby (Blake) and Katarina Bradić (Cassandra)

By Eleanor Knight, 11 September 2023

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“despite an abundance of tension, there is no drama”

Reviewed at La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels on 10 September 2023

Foccroulle, Cassandra

La Monnaie | De Munt

Kazushi Ono, Conductor

Marie-Ève Signeyrole, Director, Video

Fabien Teigné, Set Designer

Yashi, Costume Designer

Louis Geisler, Dramaturgy

Katarina Bradić, Cassandra

Jessica Niles, Sandra

Susan Bickley, Hecuba, Victoria

Sarah Defrise, Naomi

Paul Appleby, Blake

Joshua Hopkins, Apollo

Gidon Saks, Priam, Alexander

Sandrine Mairesse, Stage Manager

Lisa Willems, Conference Presenter

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

Mixed messages lost in the medium: Foccroulle's Cassandra premieres at La Monnaie