Passion - by Pascal Dusapin & Sasha Waltz

Passion
Oper by Pascal Dusapin
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin / Rita de Letteriis
Choreography by Sasha Waltz

Following on from "Dido & Aeneas" (2005), "Medea" and "Roméo et Juliette" (2007) Sasha Waltz is with »Passion" again developing a choreographic opera.

Pascal Dusapin's "Passion" is a musical engagement with the Orpheus myth. Claudio Monteverdi's operatic setting is for Dusapin at centre. For the most part he relates the myth through Eurydice's eyes.

Dramaturgically the myth describes the treatment. The staging and lighting indicate the boundaries between worlds. In course of the performance the players on stage, pass through various membranes separating the world of the living »Reality« from the hidden world, the »Underworld«.

The title role is sung by the magnificent Barbara Hannigan, her partner being her peer Georg Nigl. The Vocalconsort Berlin constitutes the chorus, while Ensemble Modern under direction of Franck Ollu with whom Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests realised Wolfgang Rihm?s »Jagden und Formen« provides the music. The libretto is in Italian.

World Premiere
6th of October, 2010

Direction
Choreography
Sasha Waltz

Musical Direction
Franck Ollu

Costumes
Hussein Chalayan

Stage
Thilo Reuther
Sasha Waltz

Light design
Thilo Reuther

Electroacoustic Device
Thierry Coduys

Dramaturgy
Ilka Seifert

Vocal Soloists
Lei
Barbara Hannigan
Lui
Georg Nigl

Dance
Choreography
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Edivalodo Ernesto
Virgis Puodziunas
Zaratiana Randrianantenaina
Yael Schnell
Xuan Shi
Niannian Zhou

Vokalensemble (Gli Altri)
Vocalconsort Berlin
Ensemble Modern

A Production of Théâtre des Champs- Élysées and Sasha Waltz & Guests in Coproduction with Opéra de Lille.
Made in Radialsystem®

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• sasha
• waltz
• duspain
• opera
• passion

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J'ai vu cet opéra hier à Lille et je l'ai trouvé splendide. La musique envoûtante est parfaitement illustrée par la magnifique mise en scène et la chorégraphie de Sasha Waltz ... et quelle performance de la part des solistes ! Superbe, vraiment, un grand moment d'émotion et de bonheur. Merci !