Name: Phaëton
Start: 2018-05-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra Royal

Admin

Organization

Singer

Countertenor

Mathias Vidal

Phaëton

Cyril Auvity

Triton

Le Soleil

Déesse de la Terre

Soprano

Léa Trommenschlager

Clymène

Mezzo-soprano

Victoire Bunel

Théone

Première compagne d'Astrée

Bass-baritone

Lisandro Abadie

Epaphus

Saturne

Bass

Jupiter

Alexander Egorov

Mérops

Viktor Shapovalov

Protée

Automne

Eleni-Lydia Stamellou

Astrée

Heure du jour

Une Bergère Égyptienne

Conductor

Vincent Dumestre

Stage director

Benjamin Lazar

Set designer

Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy

Costume designer

Alain Blanchot

Eva Zaïcik

Libye

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Orchestra

Le Poème Harmonique

Phaëton -  (Phaeton)

Versailles

France

Phaéton
'Tragédie en musique' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)
Libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
First performance in Versailles, 6 January 1683

Recording: June 2 2018 - Opéra Royal | Versailles
Director: Corentin Leconte
Duration: 02:33

Opéra Royal

Jean-Baptiste Lully, the founder of lyric tragedy, dedicated one of his most flamboyant masterpieces to the sun king himself - Louis XIV. Phaeton tells the story of the gallant driver of the Sun's chariot, dominating the celestial dome with his daily race across the sky. But excess and indulgence result in the young god's downfall.

Phaéton
'Tragedy in music' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)
Libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
First performance in Versailles, 6 January 1683

Public

Phaeton

Approved

Production booklet

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