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Giuseppe Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (Sicilian Vespers)

I: "Beau pays de France!"

I: "Qu'elle est cette beauté"

I: "Au sein des mers"

I: "Quels accents! quel langage!"

I: "Quelle horreur m'environne"

I: "Quel est ton nom?"

I: "Punis mon audace!"

Entr'acte

II: "Palerme... ô mon pays!"

II: "Et toi, Palerme"

II: "Fidèles à ma voix!"

II: "Comment, dans ma reconnaissance"

II: "Près du tombeau peut-être"

II: "A vous, et de la part de notre gouverneur!"

II: "Voilà, par saint Denis!"

II: "Vivent les conquêtes!"

II: "Interdits, accablés"

Entr'acte

III: "Oui, je fus bien coupable"

III: "Au sein de la puissance"

III: "Je n'en puis revenir!"

III: "Quand ma bonté toujours nouvelle"

III: Ballet "L'Hiver"

III: Ballet "Le Printemps"

III: Ballet "L'Eté"

III: Ballet "L'Automne"

III: "O fête brillante!"

IV: "C'est Guy de Montfort!"

IV: "Ô jour de peine et de souffrance!"

IV: "De courroux et d'effroi"

IV: "Ami !... le cœur d'Hélène"

IV: "Par une main amie"

IV: "Adieu, mon pays, je succombe"

IV: "De profundis ad te clamavi"

IV: "Ô surprise! ô mystère!"

V: "Célébrons ensemble l'hymen glorieux"

V: "Merci, jeunes amies"

V: "La brise souffle au loin"

V: "À ton dévouement généreux"

V: "Sort fatal"

V: "Ah! venez compatir à ma douleur mortelle!"

V: "Oui, vengeance! vengeance!"

Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers

Christof Loy (stage director), Paolo Carignani (conductor) – With Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Burkhard Fritz (Henri) and Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de Montfort)

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Cast

Christof Loy — Stage director

Thomas Wilhelm — Choreographer

Johannes Leiacker — Set designer

Ursula Renzenbrink — Costume designer

Bernd Purkrabek — Lighting

Barbara Haveman — Hélène

Burkhard Fritz — Henri

Program notes

This superb version of The Sicilian Vespers was staged by Christof Loy at the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam in 2010. The performance stars Barbara Haveman, Livia Ághová and Burkhard Fritz, while Paolo Carignani conducts the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest.

The Sicilian Vespers is an opera in five acts by Verdi, and was performed for the very first time at the Paris Opera on June 13th 1855 as part of the 1855 Universal Exposition. Although this work followed three of Verdi's biggest successes—Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La TraviataThe Sicilian Vespers never reached the same level of popularity as its predecessors.

Verdi’s opera recounts the historic event of the "Sicilian Vespers", when during Easter in 1282 A.D., the Sicilian population rose up against King Charles of Anjou. The staging by Christof Loy modernizes the opera, with armor and other 13th-century props replaced by costumes of different eras. Apart from the red curtain and choirs, the staging consists entirely of videos projected on a screen. The leading vocal roles are sung by Barbara Haveman, Livia Ághová and Burkhard Fritz, accompanied by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Paolo Carignani.

Photo © Monika Ritterhaus

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