Sivan Eldar's Like flesh
Silvia Costa (stage director), Maxime Pascal (conductor) — With Helena Rasker (La Femme, l'Arbre), William Dazeley (Le forestier), Juliette Allen (L'Étudiante)...
Cast
Silvia Costa — Stage director, stage design
Francesco D'Abbraccio — Video creator IA
Laura Dondoli — Costume designer
Andrea Sanson — Lighting
Augustin Muller
Florent Derex — Sound projection
Alain Muller — Singing coach
Bianca Chillemi — Singing coach
Program notes
Feast your eyes and ears on the first opera by composer Sivan Eldar and librettist Cordelia Lynn, Like flesh! With music performed by the acclaimed Maxime Pascal and his boundary-pushing ensemble Le Balcon, this opera finds inspiration in the mythology of women transformed into trees, as in Ovid's Metamorphoses, blurring the boundaries between humans and their environment—and among humans themselves. Ingenious director and set designer Silvia Costa invites spectators inside the sensory experience of transformation through bold and striking stylistic choices, including electronic apparatus, video, and artificial intelligence. Don't miss this timely, engaging, thought-provoking work, recorded live at the Opéra de Lille!
Photo © Simon Gosselin
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