Organization

Conductor

Johannes Debus

Stage director

Damiano Michieletto

Set designer

Paulo Fantin

Costume designer

Agostino Cavalca

Lighting designer

Alessandro Carletti

Choreographer

Chiara Vecchi

Chorus master

Benedict Kearns

Singer

Soprano

Cecilia Molinari

Béatrice

Tenor

Robert Lewis

Bénédict

Giulia Scopelliti

Héro

Contralto

Thandiswa Mpongwana

Ursule

Baritone

Paweł Trojak

Claudio

Bass

Pete Thanapat

Don Pedro

Ivan Thirion

The Archbishop

Spoken

Gérald Robert-Tissot

Léonato

Opéra de Lyon

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

Others

Lyon Opera Choirs

French

Béatrice et Bénédict -  (Beatrice and Benedict)

Lyon

France

Béatrice et Bénédict Berlioz

Public

Beatrice and Benedict

Approved

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As Romantic composers go, Berlioz is the most controversial. His last opera, Beatrice and Benedict, was inspired from Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing and received acclaim when it premiered in 1862 in Baden-Baden. Two visions of love stand between four young people: the safety of home versus unbridled desire. Claudio and Héro embody the innocence of marital love, while Beatrice and Benedict are so scared of the shackles of marriage that they refuse to acknowledge their attraction for one another and pretend to feel hatred instead. The conspiratorial tendencies of their controlling society of surveillance finally pushes them to give in. To tell this story, Berlioz composed music he described as “one of the liveliest and most original that I have written, that requires excessive delicacy in execution.” Director Damiano Michieletto expressed his fascination with the composer’s visionary genius, which “goes beyond the capacity to tell a story, and turns such a story into a personal journey during which the music transcends space and widens horizons.”

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble