Get your tickets in advance for Verdi's La Forza del Destino at the Opera Bastille in Paris. Cast highlights include Anna Netrebko and Ludovic Tézier.
A masterpiece of Verdi's mature years, The Force of Destiny is an opera of contrasts, in turn epic and prosaic, comic and tragic, spectacular and intimate. The composer combines all manner of styles - burlesque, dramatic, military and religious - and offers the protagonists passages of incomparable vocal splendour. Conducted by Jader Bignamini, Anna Netrebko, then Anna Pirozzi, Russel Thomas and Ludovic Tézier love each other and tear each other apart in Jean-Claude Auvray's elegant and colourful production which transposes the action to the Risorgimento period.
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Opera in four acts (1862)
Music:
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto:
Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor:
Jader Bignamini
Director:
Jean-Claude Auvray
Choreography:
Terry John Bates
Set design:
Alain Chambon
Costume design:
Maria Chiara Donato
Lighting design:
Laurent Castaingt
Collaboration to the choreograhy:
Paolo Ferri
Chorus master:
Ching-Lien Wu
Il Marchese di Calatrava:
James Creswell
Donna Leonora:
Anna Netrebko
(12 > 21 Dec.)
Anna Pirozzi
(24 > 30 Dec.)
Don Carlo di Vargas:
Ludovic Tézier
Don Alvaro:
Russell Thomas
Preziosilla:
Elena Maximova
Padre Guardiano:
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Fra Melitone:
Nicola Alaimo
Curra:
Isabelle Druet
Un Alcade:
Florent Mbia
Mastro Trabuco:
Carlo Bosi
Un Chirurgo:
Hyunsik Zee