Orlando - Nancy Opera house (2025) - Orlando - Opéra National de Nancy Lorraine (2025)

Description

Revival of the production created at the Théâtre du Châtelet in January 2025.

"Director Jeanne Desoubeaux chooses to transpose the opera into a museum, making the group of children who come to visit it witnesses fantastic scenes when the characters in the paintings come to life and cause desire and duty, ambition and jealousy to clash. The romantic tension will momentarily tip Orlando into madness, just before the mysterious magician-philosopher Zoroastro intervenes to urge him to turn instead to military glory, which will not fail to question our modern gender stereotypes in passing..."

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