Concert

La Vestale – Spontini

Jérémie Rhorer, Eric Lacascade – Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

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Cast

Jérémie Rhorer — Music director

Eric Lacascade — Stage director

Emmanuel Clolus — Set designer

Marguerite Bordat — Costumes

Philippe Berthomé — Lighting

Daria Lippi — Dramaturgy

Ermonela Jaho — Julia

Andrew Richards — Licinius

Beatrice Uria Monzon — La Grande Vestale

Jean-François Borras — Cinna

Konstantin Gorny — Le Souverain Pontife

Le Cercle de l’Harmonie

Ensemble Aedes

Mathieu Romano — Chorus master

Program notes

La Vestale like you have never seen before, in a new production by Eric Lacascade at the prestigious Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris!

Premiered in Paris in 1807, Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale is set in Ancient Rome. The subject fills the France of Napoleon with enthusiasm: the opera encounters great success and a hundred of performances are immediately scheduled. In the 1950s, the world re-discovers Spontini's masterpiece with Maria Callas singing the part of Julia.

The young and brilliant Jérémie Rhorer, music director of the Cercle de l'Harmonie, conducts La Vestale, performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in a new staging by Eric Lacascade, who makes his first steps on the opera scene. Don't miss the live broadcast of this special event on October 23 on medici.tv!

Click here to download Étienne de Jouy's libretto for La Vestale (original French version).

Picture: © Vincent Pontet WikiSpectacle.

NEW PRODUCTION. A coproduction of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées/Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels.

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