Le Roi Arthus - Opéra national de Paris (2015) - Le Roi Arthus - Opéra national de Paris (2015)

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Le roi Arthus comesto the Paris Opera at last! This rarely performed masterpiece by Chausson was written for the Opera Garnier and here it is, well over a century after its composition and posthumous premiere at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels. A pupil of Massenet and disciple of César Franck, Chausson worked tirelessly for seven years from 1888 to 1894 on this his only opera. Like all composers of his generation, he viewed Wagner with both fascination and disgust. He repeatedly maintained that, “We need to be dewagnerised” but nevertheless composed a work that was typically post-Wagnerian, an opera suffused with the very soul of the melancholic and luxuriant composer of Poème de l’amour et de la mer. Chausson was well aware of this paradox: “Above all else, there’s that ghastly Wagner who blocks my route at every turn. I feel like an ant that comes up against a huge, slippery boulder in its path. It has to make a thousand detours before it finds a way round it. That’s what I’m up against. I’m searching (for a path). I haven’t lost patience yet and am not without hope.” Chausson did find his way, giving to the fatal love of Lancelot and Guinevere, to the despair and grandeur of Arthus, the dreamlike colours of a medieval world inherited from the Romantics and revisited by Symbolism. Alongside Sophie Koch and Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson returns to the Paris Opera as the majestic King Arthus and Philip Jordan conducts this grandiose fresco for its entry into the repertoire.

More information is available on the operahouse's official website.

Schedule

May 16, 2015 19:30:00

May 19, 2015 19:30:00

May 22, 2015 19:30:00

May 25, 2015 19:30:00

May 28, 2015 19:30:00

June 02, 2015 19:30:00

June 05, 2015 19:30:00

June 08, 2015 19:30:00

June 11, 2015 19:30:00

June 14, 2015 14:30:00

Casting

Graham Vick

Philippe Jordan

Sophie Koch

Thomas Hampson

Roberto Alagna

Alexandre Duhamel

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

François Lis

Peter Sidhom

Cyrille Dubois

Tiago Matos

Ugo Rabec

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Guenièvre

Arthus

Lancelot

Mordred

Lyonnel

Allan

Merlin

Un Laboureur

Un Chevalier

Un Ecuyer

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