Name: Davel
Start: 2020-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra de Lausanne

Organization

Singer

Bass

François Lis

De Wattenwyl

Soprano

Alexandra Dobos Rodriguez

La Belle Inconnue

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Gritschneder

La Mère

Conductor

Daniel Kawka

Stage director

Gianni Schneider

Set designer

Nina Wetzel

Sébastien Dupouey

Video designer

Lighting designer

Laurent Junod

Chorus master

Jean-Philippe Clerc

Baritone

Régis Mengus

Davel

Tenor

Christophe Berry

De Crousaz

Costume designer

Mireille Dessingy

Opéra de Lausanne

Others

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Lausanne

Switzerland

Public

Approved

350 years after the birth of Jean Daniel Abraham Davel in Morrens

The Opéra de Lausanne has asked two artists from Vaud to take this charismatic figure and make him resonate in words and notes for the ears of current generations. After three years of work, they are ready to reveal the doubts and certainties of his fight, in contact with key people from his tragedy: Ludwig von Wattenwyl from Bern, military commander in the Pays de Vaud and in charge of leading the enquiry against him; the friend and traitor Jean-Daniel de Crousaz, who denounced him to the Bernese authorities; and this Beautiful Stranger, a fugitive and luminous incarnation of his mystic visions which are at the heart of the revelation of his destiny. An artistic and historical journey that spectators will be invited to extend by reading a work dedicated to the evolution of creation and a retrospective of the literary, dramatic and musical use of Davel’s character throughout the centuries.¨

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble