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OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS HDTV PRODucTIONS OPERAS & BALLETS 2012-2014 © Patrick Tourneboeuf / Tendance Floue / OnP / Tendance Tourneboeuf © Patrick OPERAS OPERA 3 LA TRAVIATA giuSEPPE vERdi 4 LA FANcIuLLA DEL WEST giAcOmO PUCCINI 5 I PuRITANI vincEnzO BELLini 6 AIda giuSEPPE vERdi © photo: Patrick Tourneboeuf / Tendance Floue / OnP / Tendance Tourneboeuf Patrick © photo: 7 LA GIOconda AmiLcARE POnchiELLi 8 HäNSEL uND GRETEL Engelbert humPERdinck 9 Falstaff giuSEPPE vERdi 10 CarmEN Georges BizET BALLETS CarLA TRAVIATAmEN 11 JEROmE ROBBINS GeorgiuSEPPEges BizvERETdi ALEXEI RATmANSKY cREATION “Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the first 12 GEORGE BALANcHINE OPERA IN THREE AcTS (1853) woman I ever loved, and now she's in goodness BENJAmIN mILLEPIED muSIc BY GIuSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901) knows which cemetery, abandoned to the LIBRETTO BY FRANcEScO mARIA PIAVE maggots of the sepulchre! It's as she said to me BASED ON ALEXANDRE DumAS FILS'S 13 THE SLEEPING BEAuTY fifteen months ago: “I won’t live: I’m a strange PLAY "LA DAmE AuX cAmÉLIAS" girl and I won’t be able to keep living a life I RudOLf nuREYEv PerformED IN Italian don’t know how to lead and that I don’t know how to bear either. Take me, lead me wherever 14 Gustav mAHLER’S THIRD symPHONY FrancescO Ivan cIAmpa Conductor you want; I won’t bother you, I sleep all day. JOhn nEumEiER BENOîT JAcQuot Stage director In the evening, you’ll let me go to the theatre Sylvain cHAuvelot Sets and at night you’ll do with me as you wish!” 15 TRIcENTENARY ANNIVERSARY Christian Gasc Costumes I’ve never told you of the singular attachment ANDRÉ Diot Lighting I felt for that charming creature. And now Of ThE fREnch dAncE SchOOL PatricK mARIE Aubert Chorus master she's dead... And I don’t know what strange old elegy echoes in my heart at her memory.” 16 DON Quixote DIANA DAmrau Violetta Valéry Thus spoke Franz Liszt of Marie d’Agoult, RudOLf nuREYEv ANNA PENNISI Flora Bervoix the unforgettable ghost of the woman who Cornelia ONcIOIu Annina would become the Dame aux camélias. After 17 O cOmposite FrancescO DEmuRO Alfredo Germont Dumas fils, it was Verdi who would give her Ludovic TÉzIER Giorgio Germont immortality in his remarkable masterpiece, TRiShA Brown Kevin AmIEL Gastone one of the repertoire’s most striking portraits FABIO Previati 18 Marie-AGNÈS Gillot Il Barone Douphol of a woman, at once cruel and sublime. IGOR GNIDII Il Marchese d’Obigny Following on from Werther, Benoît mERcE cuNNINGHAm NIcolas Testé Dottore Grenvil Jacquot directs Diana Damrau in this other opera about love and sacrifice. PARIS Opera ORchestra AND cHORuS TELEVISION PRODucTION Duration: 2h10 — Filming Dates: June 2014 WiTh ThE Support Of ThE FondatiOn OrangE, tV Director: Benoît Jacquot, louise narBoni SPOnsor fOR ThE PARiS Opera’S AudiOviSuAL broadcasts coproDuction: opéra national De paris, iDéale auDience with the participation oF France téléVisions anD the support in associatiOn WiTh ugc ET fRA cinémA And RiSing AlternativE oF the cnc fOR ThE broadcasting in cinEmas — 3 — OPERA OPERA © photo: C. Leiber / OnP C. Leiber © photo: © photo: Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam / Clärchen & Matthias Baus & Matthias / Clärchen Amsterdam Opera, Nederlandse © photo: LA FANcIuLLA DEL WEST I PuRITANI giAcOmO Puccini vincEnzO BELLini THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST “In those strange days, people coming from God cREATION At a time when the whole of Europe was OPERA IN THREE AcTS (1910) knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, THE PuRITANS obsessed by Romanticism, what nation did not muSIc BY GIAcOmO PUCCINI (1858-1924) and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their dream of Italy? Goethe's Mignon sings of the LIBRETTO BY GuELFO cIVININI AND cARLO very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here mELODRAmmA SERIO IN THREE PARTS (1835) Sicilian countryside where an orange tree in zANGARINI BASED ON DAVID BELAScO'S they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved muSIc BY VINcENzO BELLINI (1801-1835) full bloom can be seen silhouetted against the PLAY "THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST" and worked out their strange destinies in a manner LIBRETTO BY cARLO PEPOLI sky; Stendhal and Heine led their readers down PerformED IN Italian incredible to us of to-day. Of one thing only are we PerformED IN Italian Florentine lanes or beside Roman fountains; Carlo RIzzI Conductor sure - they lived!” Puccini prefaced his score with this Glinka, the first thoroughly Russian composer, mIcHELE Mariotti Conductor NikolauS LEHNHOFF Stage director quotation and, indeed, it is life itself that he aimed to went there to learn about singing, an art that LAuRENT Pelly Stage director and costumes RAImuND BAuER Sets capture, in a trail that would lead him to Paris in La could be nothing if not thoroughly Italian. The Chantal THOmas Sets ANDREA ScHmidt-FuTTERER Costumes Bohème, to Japan in Madama Butterfly and then as dilettantes agreed with him and flocked to Italy JOëL Adam Lighting DuANE ScHuLER Lighting far as the Far West in a tale of passion, certainly, but from as far afield as London and Paris, Vienna PatricK mARIE Aubert Chorus master Jonas GERBERDING Video also of humanity, brotherhood and compassion. In a and Saint Petersburg to hear the exponents of DENNI Sayers Choreography saloon bar known as The Polka, gold diggers brood over bel canto. The only country to escape this furore Wojtek SmILEK Lord Gualtiero Valton PatricK mARIE Aubert Chorus master mothers left behind in Italy whilst Minnie, behind the was Italy itself. Its romanticism, which, like all bar, reads to them from the Bible. Love will come to mIcHELE PertuSI Sir Giorgio romanticism is an expression of dissatisfaction NINA STEmmE Minnie Minnie in the guise of a criminal but, seeing beyond Dmitry KORcHAK Lord Arturo Talbot and yearning, could hardly fly its own colours. cLAuDIO SGura Jack Rance mere appearances, she will recognise the true heart mARIuSz KWIEcIEN Sir Riccardo Forth Its artists dreamed of mist and rain and sought mARcO Berti Dick Johnson beneath the rough exterior and realise the possibility of LucA LOmbardo Sir Bruno Roberton the dismal shores of Shakespeare and Schiller ROmAN SADNIK Nick happiness. In the wake of the first literary westerns and ANDREEA Soare Enrichetta di Francia and the simple melodies written for the blue sea ANDREA Mastroni Ashby as cinema began to exploit the genre, Puccini gave opera mARIA Agresta Elvira and the sky. At the beginning of 1835, Bellini's ANDRÉ Heyboer Sonora its first ever western: a tale of souls stranded at the edge I Puritani, performed by four of the most EmANuELE GIANNINO Trin of the world, a tale of laughter and of tears, both exotic PARIS Opera ORchestra AND cHORuS celebrated singers of the time, La Grisi, Rubini, Roberto Accurso Sid and overwhelming. First performed at the Metropolitan Tamburini and Lablache, enjoyed unprecedented IGOR GNIDII Bello / ÉRIc HucHET Harry Opera of New York in 1910, this genuine masterpiece success with its story of hopeless love and revenge TELEVISION PRODucTION RODOLPHE BRIAND Joe finally enters the repertoire of the Paris Opera. set in 17th century England and conveyed by Duration: 2h45 ENRIcO Marabelli Happy some of the most beautiful vocal writing ever. Filming Dates: DecemBer 2013 WENWEI zHANG Larkens In Act II, Elvira appears, seized by madness TELEVISION PRODucTION tV Director: François ROUSSILLON uGO RABEc Billy Jackrabbit and singing a melody of such heartrending Duration: 2h10 — Filming Dates: FeBruary 2014 coproDuction: opéra De paris proDuction, ANNA PENNISI Wowkle purity that it might well have inspired Chopin tV Director: anDy SOMMER FRA proDuctions with the participation oF ALEXANDRE DuHAmEL Jake Wallace in the writing of a nocturne. The vogue for coproDuction : opéra national De paris, CLC France téléVisions anD the support oF the cnc Matteo PEIRONE José Castro I Puritani with the participation oF France téléVisions swept all before it, including Bellini PARIS Opera ORchestra AND cHORuS anD the support oF the cnc himself, who died a few months later in a villa ORIGINAL PRODucTION : in Puteaux, in the throes of melancholia. DuTcH National Opera, Amsterdam — 4 — — 5 — OPERA OPERA © photo: Antoni Bofill / OnP Bofill Antoni © photo: © photo: Simon Chaput / OnP © photo: AIda CarLA GmIOENconda giuSEPPE vERdi GeorAmiLcgAREes Biz POETnchiELLi cREATION With its fascination for Egypt, 19th century DramA IN fouR Acts (1876) In his preface to Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, one of his OPERA IN FOuR AcTS (1871) Europe seems to have embarked on an muSIc by AmILcARE PONcHIELLI (1834-1886) rare prose plays, Victor Hugo says that drama has muSIc BY GIuSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901) intoxicating voyage down the Nile, marvelling Libretto by ARRIGO Boito to be both noble and real. In transposing the play LIBRETTO BY ANTONIO GHISLANzONI at the colours of that great river and of the AFTER Angelo, TyrAn de to operatic form, Amilcare Ponchielli and Arrigo AFTER AuGuSTE mARIETTE Egyptian sky, rediscovering monuments that are PAdoue by VIctor HuGO Boito remained faithful to Hugo. Their Gioconda, PerformED IN Italian not so much palaces and towns but enigmatic first performed at La Scala Milan in 1876, is one sanctuaries of both the genius and the folly of DANIEL OREN Conductor of the most flamboyant of classic operas. At that PHILIPPE Jordan Conductor humanity. Aida is one of the most celebrated PIER LuIGI PIzzI Stage director, sets and costumes time, it was difficult for a composer to live in the OLIVIER PY Stage director examples of this “Egyptomania” albeit one of SERGIO Rossi Lighting shadow of Verdi, but Ponchielli was one of the PIERRE-ANDRÉ WEITz Sets and costumes the most contradictory: commissioned by Ismail Gheorghe IANcu Choreography rare artists to carve out a place and an identity for Bertrand Killy Lighting Pasha, the project of a work to be performed in PatricK mARIE Aubert Chorus master himself, not too far removed from the Master but PatricK mARIE Aubert Chorus master honour of the inauguration of the Suez Canal different nonetheless.