Name: Louise
Start: 2007-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2007-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra Bastille

Organization

Chanteur

Soprano

Mireille Delunsch

Louise

Mezzo-soprano

Jane Henschel

La Mére

Marie-Paule Dotti

Irma

Natacha Finette-Constantin

Camille

Anne Salvan

Gertrude

Ténor

Paul Groves

Julien

Baryton

José van Dam

Père

Luca Lombardo

Le pape des fous

René Schirrer

Le chiffonier

Direction d'orchestre

Sylvain Cambreling

Mise en scène

André Engel

Costumes

Chantal de la Coste-Messelière

Décors

Nicky Rieti

Le Pape des fous

Yun Jung Choi

Elise

La premiére

Elisa Cenni

Apprentie

La petite chiffonniére

Adriana Simon

Blanche

Letitia Singleton

Suzanne

Laitière

Daniela Entcheva

Madeleine

Cornelia Oncioiu

Balayeuse

Plieuse

Glaneuse

Marguerite

Basse

Bartłomiej Misiuda

Bricoleur

Rodrigo García

Premier philosophe

David Fernandez-Gainza

Second philosophe

Pascal Meslé

Sculpteur

Hyun-Jong Roh

Étudiant

Shin Jae Kim

Poète

Hyoung-Min Oh

Peintre

Myoung-Chang Kwon

1. Bohème

Un marchand d'habits

1. gardien

2. gardien

Voix d'enfant

Caroline Bibas

Apprenti

Joumana El-Amiouni

M'des artichauts

Fernando Velasquez

M'd des carottes

Le colleur d'affiches

Marie-Cécile Chevassus

La rempailleuse

Lumières

André Diot

Dramaturgie

Dominique Muller

Direction de choeur

Peter Burian

Opéra National de Paris

Others

Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

français

Paris

France

Opéra Bastille

Louise by G. Charpentier, from Paris Opera, 2007. Directed by André Engel, conductor Sylvain Cambreling, starring Luca Lombardo, José Van Dam, Mireille Delunsch, Jane Henschel, Marie-paule Dotti, Anne Salvan and Natacha Constantin. Performed in French.

The opera is a homage to Paris and Montmartre  - director André Engel therefore works with large-scale recordings that  go well with the lyrical tableaus of Gustave Charpentier's music. The Orchester de l'Opéra National de Paris under Sylvain Cambreling plays richly and beautifully; very good cast.

Gustave Charpentier's "musical novel" Louise takes some of its cues from Wagner—the use of leitmotif—and Massenet—the naturalistic verismo quality and spotlight on the common people. The work's libretto, inspired by symbolist poet Saint-Pol Roux, depicts the titular young seamstress, a sensitive dreamer torn between filial duty and her love for neighbor Julien, a poet. Louise ultimately finds happiness in the arms of Julien, against the wishes of her parents (especially her father), which inspires the famous aria that opens Act III: "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée..." ("Since the day I gave myself, my destiny seems flower-strewn...")

In this outstanding production from the Paris Opera, the "Queen of the Bohemians" finds a worthy interpreter in Mireille Delunsch, whose theatrical instincts inform her every gesture. Jane Henschel imbues Louise's mother with a moving strength and dignity alongside José Van Dam as a tortured father who blames the sinful city of Paris for stealing his daughter away from him. An ode to the French capital, depicted as a place of mirth and celebration, whimsy and euphoria, full of colorful characters: the king of fools, the noctambulist, songwriters, peddlers, painters, philosophers—each has a place in the City of Lights!

Louise Charpentier,G

Valide

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