Il Viaggio, Dante - Paris Opera house (2025) - Il Viaggio, Dante - Opéra National de Paris - Palais Garnier (2025)

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A poem of mysterious beauty, an initiatory epic, a reflection on eternal salvation, a founding text of Italian literature and a pillar of European culture, Dante's Divine Comedy seems to resist any adaptation. However, this is the challenge taken up by Pascal Dusapin and his librettist Frédéric Boyer who offer Dante a journey through different ages of his life to find Beatrice, who died prematurely.

From the circles of hell where Lucifer awaits to paradise where light triumphs, is the poet who journeys within himself not a parable of our humanity? Summoning organ and glass harmonica, Il Viaggio, Dante, written in Italian to pay homage to Dante's prosody, enters the repertoire of the Paris National Opera after its premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2022 including we reported in our French columns.

Signed Claus Guth, the staging oscillates between fantasies and reality, the living and the dead, to ultimately reach Beatrice's smile.

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.