www.telmondis.fr NEWSLETTER > 2015 Opera Dance Documentary Concert Circus Cabaret & magic Theater SUMMARY OPERA > MARIINSKY THEATRE War and Peace 2 > THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE PARIS-CHÂTELET Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 3 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS The Barber of Seville 4 Tosca 5 La Traviata 6 DANCE CONCERT > OPÉRA DE LYON > MARIINSKY THEATRE > MARIINSKY THEATRE Le Comte Ory 7 La Bayadère 26 International Piano Festival 40 > TEATRO LA FENICE VENISE Anna Karenine 27 > TCHAIKOVSKY HALL, MOSCOW Capuleti e Montecchi 8 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS Concert at the Tchaikovsky Hall, Alceste 9 Les Enfants de Scaramouche 28 Moscow 40 L’Africaine 10 Rain 29 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS > OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE Ballet Evening at Paris Opera 30 Ludwig Van Beethoven Cycle, The Tosca 11 Daphnis et Chloé 31 Nine Symphonies 41 WORK IN PROGRESS La Cenerentola 12 Le Palais de Cristal 32 > GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION DANCE Luisa Miller 13 Dances at a Gathering 32 GRAND AUDITORIUM, LISBON > The Sleeping Beauty 47 Attila 14 Psyché 33 St Matthew Passion 42 > Atvakhabar Rhapsodies 47 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 15 > TEATRO REAL, MADRID War Requiem 42 > Tatjana 47 Guillaume Tell 16 El Amor Brujo 34 > OPÉRA-COMIQUE, PARIS > Casse-Noisette Compagnie 47 L’Italiana in Algeri 17 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE BORDEAUX Armenian Legends 43 > OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO Pneuma 35 OPERA Don Giovanni 18 > CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES > The Queen of Spades 48 Il Mondo della Luna 19 The Orangery Nights 36 CIRCUS > Eugene Onegin 48 Ernani 20 > TATAR STATE ACADEMIC OPERA - KAZAN > 36 th Tomorrow's Circus > Jalil 48 > TEATRO MAYOR – BOGOTA, COLOMBIA The Golden Horde 37 World Festival 44 > Bluebeard’s Castle / Orfeo Chaman 21 > 39 th Monte Carlo Circus Festival 45 La Voix humaine 49 > OPÉRA DE ROUEN HAUTE-NORMANDIE > La Damnation de Faust 49 Dido and Aeneas 22 DOCUMENTARY > La Cenerentola 49 La Damnation de Faust 23 > Dmitri Shostakovich – MAGIC > OPÉRA NATIONAL DU RHIN A Man Of Many Faces 38 > Golden Mandrakes 2014 46 CONCERT Doctor Atomic 24 > Ma mère adorait la danse 38 > The Olympia does its Magic! 46 > Concert at Münchner > SPECIAL EVENT > A Rose for Antonio Soler 39 Philharmoniker 48 Le Concert de Paris 25 > Carnivals around the World 39 > Le Concert de Paris 2015 49 > Opera 2/3 MARIINSKY THEATRE / THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE PARIS-CHÂTELET War and Peace Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre Opera in two acts by Sergei Starring Prokofiev. Libretto by Sergei Andrei Bondarenko: Prince Andrei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelssohn- Bolkonsky | Aida Garifullina: Natasha Prokofieva after the novel of the Rostova | Yulia Matochkina: Sonya | same name by Leo Tolstoy. New Larisa Diadkova: Maria Dmitrievna production directed by Graham Akhrosimova | Sergei Aleksashkin: Vick. Conducted by Valery Gergiev. Count Ilya Rostov | Yevgeny Akimov: Pierre Bezukhov | Maria Based on the 19th century novel Maksakova: Hélène Bezukhova | Ilya by Tolstoy, the opera of War and Selivanov: Anatol Kuragin | Edward Peace tells the story of young Tsanga: Dolokhov | Yekaterina Natasha who falls for dashing Sergeyeva: Princess Marya | Gennady widower Prince Andrei. But his Bezzubenkov: Field-Marshal Mikhail father disapproves of their proposed Kutuzov | Vasily Gerello: Napoleon | union causing the match to be The Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus | postponed. Meanwhile Natasha’s head is turned by the charming Production Anatole Kuragin who neglects to A coproduction by Telmondis, mention that he is already married. the Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo This individual and personal story with the participation of France is overtaken by political events Télévisions, M_MEDIA and as Napoleon’s army closes in on the support of the CNC | Russia, making war inevitable. Directed by Don Kent | Produced by Antoine Perset, Stage Director: Graham Vick Denis Morlière | Musical Director and Conductor: Running time: 1x270’ | Valery Gergiev | Production Designer: Paul Brown | Lighting Designer: Giuseppe Di Iorio | Choreographer: Maxim Petrov | ©Photo: N. Razina Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Telmondis 2014 Théâtre musical de Paris-Châtelet World Premiere – Symphonic Version Years later, the now conspicuously wealthy Golden Palm in Cannes in 1964, Les Geneviève, travelling with her daughter, Parapluies de Cherbourg is a new genre Guy's child, accidentally runs into Guy at his in the French film world: the musical. A service station. While the two have only a cinematographic revolution, carried by brief conversation about the state of their the timeless music of Michel Legrand. respective lives, the conversation is clearly fraught with unspoken fondness and regret. Geneviève lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. Musical direction: Michel Legrand She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are secretly Book: Jacques Demy | in love and want to marry. Shortly after Music: Michel Legrand | this, Guy is drafted to serve the Algerian Stage director: Vincent Vittoz | War. Before leaving, Guy and Geneviève Set design: Vincent Vittoz and Jean-Jacques consummate their love for each other, Sempé | Costumes: Vanessa Seward | which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away at war they drift apart. Starring Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her Geneviève: Marie Oppert | Guy: Vincent mother, accepts a marriage proposal from Niclo | Madame Emery: Natalie Dessay | Roland Cassard, a jewler, who has fallen Roland Cassard: Laurent Naouri | Madeleine: in love and has promised to bring up her Louise Leterme | Aunt Elise: Jasmine Roy | child as his own. Guy is wounded and is M. Dubourg & Aubin: Franck Vincent | discharged before his two-year term is up, Orchestre National d'Île-de-France | but when he returns to Cherbourg Geneviève has already married and moved away. He Production struggles with depression and anger, but A coproduction by Telmondis, Théâtre Muscial eventually is healed by falling in love with de Paris-Châtelet with the partcipation and marrying Madeleine, a young woman of France Télévisions and the support of who had been caring for his dying aunt. Using the CNC | Directed by Denis Caïozzi | an inheritance from his aunt, Guy fulfills Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | his ambition of opening a service station. Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: Marie-Noëlle Robert > Opera 4/5 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS The Barber of Seville A Prime Group 2014 Opéra national de Paris Opera-Buffa in two acts by Gioacchino Musical direction: Carlo Montanaro Rossini | Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Stage direction: Damiano Michieletto | Sets: from the play of Pierre-Augustin Paolo Fantin | Costumes: Silvia Aymonino | Caron de Beaumarchais. Lighting: Fabio Barettin | Choruses master: José Luis Basso | Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the history of music and an eternal source Starring of delight. Rossini composed it in just a few René Barbera: Il Conte d’Almaviva | Carlo weeks, borrowing the overture and certain Lepore: Bartolo | Karine Deshayes: Rosina | airs from his own serious and comic works. Dalibor Jenis: Figaro | Orlin Anastassov: All of the remarkable ensembles, however, Basilio | Tiago Matos: Fiorello | Cornelia are original. Il barbiere di Siviglia was also Oncioiu: Berta | Lucio Prete: Un Ufficiale | one of the first operatic triumphs in Europe. Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus | The premiere, performed on 20 February 1816 in Rome, was a resounding flop, attended Production by all of Rossini’s enemies. But the opera A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, A was quickly revived on 22 February when Prime Group, with the participation of France The Barber received rapturous applause. Télévisions and the support of the CNC and And indeed, how could Rossini not have of La Fondation Orange | Directed by François encountered this initial resistance? He Goetghebeur | Produced by Charlotte Guénin, pitted the old world (through Bartolo and Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x155’ | his authoritarianism) against the new world; old opera against modern opera. With its incredible verve and youthful cheer, this was the work that built Rossini’s brilliant international reputation. With this new production of the ever-popular masterpiece, Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto makes his Paris Opera debut. ©Photo: Bernard Coutanty - ONP©Photo: Bernard Tosca Act4 Productions 2014 Opéra national de Paris Melodramma in three acts by Musical direction: Daniel Oren Giacomo Puccini | Libretto by Stage direction: Pierre Audi | Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Sets: Christof Hetzer | from the play of Victorien Sardou. Costumes: Robby Duiveman | A singer in love, passionate, jealous Lighting: Jean Kalman | and impulsive; a romantic painter, Dramaturgy: Klaus Bertisch | an idealist and a defender of liberty; Choruses master: José Luis Basso | a police chief with a lust for flesh, power and blood, ready to do Starring anything to achieve his ends. Puccini Martina Serafin: Floria Tosca | artfully combines the ingredients of a Marcelo Alvarez: Mario Cavaradossi | melodrama written for Sarah Bernhardt Ludovic Tézier: Scarpia | and comes up with what might be Wojtek Smilek: Cesare Angelotti | called the opera of operas, a spectacle Carlo Bosi: Spoletta | at once primitive and decadent. In André Heyboer: Sciarrone | a mythical yet real Rome, from the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea Maîtrise des Hauts-De-Seine / della Valle to the terrace of Castello Paris Opera children's Chorus | Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all apart, mingling the erotic with the Production sacred, love with possession, theatre A coproduction by Opéra national with