Organization

Singer

Tenor

Ed Lyon

Don Gómez de Feria

Enguerrand de Hys

Le Comte de Surrey

Bass

Werner Van Mechelen

Le duc de Norfolk

Jérôme Varnier

Thomas Cranmer

Mezzo-soprano

Nora Gubisch

Anne Boleyn

Conductor

Alain Altinoglu

Stage director

Olivier Py

Set designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Chorus master

Stefano Visconti

Benoît Giaux

Baritone

Lionel Lhote

Henry VIII

Vincent Le Texier

Le Cardinal Campeggio

Soprano

Marie-Adeline Henry

Catherine d'Aragon

Alexander Marev

Garter

Un officier

Costume designer

Claire Antoine

Lady Clarence

Leander Carlier

Un huissier de la cour

Alessia Thais Berardi

Quatre dames d'honneur

Annelies Kerstens

Lieve Jacobs

Manon Poskin

Alain-Pierre Wingelinckx

Quatre seigneurs

Luis Aguilar

Byoungjin Lee

La Monnaie/De Munt

René Laryea

Sophie Pondjiclis

Fabien Hyon

Others

Académie des chœurs de la Monnaie s.l.d. de Benoît Giaux

La Monnaie Chorus

Orchestra

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

French

Brussels

Belgium

La Monnaie

Public

Dutch

Approved

Henry VIII Saint-Saëns

Created in 1883, at a time when French opera was seeking to reinvent itself, Henry VIII is a final homage to the great opera and its characteristic historical frescoes. The play tells the story of the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, which led to the schism between the Church of England and Rome.

Set aside from lyrical scenes due to the great popularity of Samson and Delilah , Henry VIII nevertheless enjoys a particularly careful orchestral writing, supporting very contrasting lyrical lines: between passion and modesty, jealousy and renunciation, intimacy and solemnity. La Monnaie wants to give back its full place to this essential score by Camille Saint-Saëns, entrusting it to two great defenders of the French repertoire: Alain Altinoglu and Olivier Py.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble