After trying to the Grand Geneva Theater, this new production of the masterpiece of Lully, led by the Chef Argentini Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, is taken up at the Royal Opera of Versailles from 19 to 23 March.
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That dazzles of the mythical Atys mounted by William Christie and Jean-Marie Villégier, in 1987 (taken up in 2011 with a huge success), rejoice. The Grand Geneva Theater has concocted a new version of which they will remember, offering the favorite Opera of Louis XIV, created in 1676 by Lully in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a new life, like the one. hero of Lully, death of love for the beautiful Sangaride, then metamorphosed into an immortal pine by the cybele goddess, who will give him an eternal worship.
It is at the joint audacity of the boss of the Geneva Lyric House, Aviel Cahn, and Laurent Brunner, “Superintendent” shows at the Palace of Versailles, where the masterpiece will be taken back to the opera Royal from March 19th to 23rd, which we owe this magnificent metamorphosis.
Difficult to conceive more successful than that of Choreographer Angelin Prejocaj, called to realize his first stage of opera, Plum Plasticians Noury and Jeanne Vicérial, to whom were entrusted respectively decorations and costumes (it is also a bonus confrontation in the world of the opera), as well as the Leonardo Garcia Alarcon conductor, awesome adventurer ready for all conquests, as long as they serve the music.
More than three hours, dance and music will love each other in a breathtaking number of seduction. Not in the dialectic and discursive way of the Cosi Fan Tutt, from Mozart, directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker at the Paris Opera, in 2017. But in a kind of choreographic osmosis that sees the artists of the Ballet Ballet Genevois Penetrate the mimetic space of singing, while vocality is enriched by the fluid and sensual gesture governed by Angelin Preljocaj (a performance from lyrical artists).
Vegetable metemphose
The prune decorations nourry are striking: a high antique wall, little by little cracked by a fatal black root tree, while a first dream has invaded the spirit of Atys – the declaration of love of Cybele Anallet of dancers extracting Rocky Anfractuos. Then the gradual destructuring of the goddess temple as the drama is tied: the hero betrayed his rival and friend, the Phrygian king Célenus, promised Sangaride. He will soon kill the one he loves, during an access to dementia caused by the jealous Cybele, before giving oneself death.
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