Il Viaggio, Dante - Aix-en-Provence Festival (2022) - Il Viaggio, Dante - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2022)

Description

World Premiere.

"With Il Viaggio, Dante, Pascal Dusapin (Passion, 2008) and Frédéric Boyer offer an intimate journey through this reputedly unadaptable sum, which itself narrates the journey of an exemplary individual through all that is human – up to to its fulfillment in light and joy. Seized at three ages of life, Dante passes from the circles of hell, with his litany of the damned culminating in the encounter with Lucifer, in paradise, where the enigmatic laughter of Beatrice resounds. Kent Nagano conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon; For his first appearance at the Festival d'Aix, Claus Guth places his protagonist between life and death, in an uncertain in-between that has the disturbing strangeness of our contemporary world."

More information is available on the official website of the festival.