Illustration Macbeth Underworld : ©️ Julia Lamoureux

Macbeth Underworld

Pascal Dusapin

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All are dead but some are not aware of it. Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banco’s ghost, the child… This dead child is the cornerstone of the guilt haunting the Macbeths. Confined in operatic limbo, they are doomed to relive their past in an outer world that is guarded by nightmarish beings.

Cast

Musical direction Franck Ollu • Stage direction Thomas Jolly • With Katarina Bradic, Georg Nigl, Ekaterina Lekhina, Lilly Jørstad, Christel Loetzsch, Matthew Best, Graham Clark, Airelle Groleau / Rachel Masclet of the Maîtrise Populaire of Opéra Comique • Choir accentus / Opéra de Rouen Normandie • Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France

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Father figure of Evil, the shakespearian couple lures us into the darkest corners of the human soul. Pascal Dusapin, renown contemporary opera writer, conceived this new work of art based on a text from Frédéric Boyer, four years after the opera Penthesilea. Based on the original work, this Way of the Cross also depicts our world: “It’s not about telling yet another story, says Pascal Dusapin. It’s about creating more stories with opera. Opera is about singing together about what preoccupies us.”

Co-commissioned by the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, MacBeth Underworld was first staged in Bruxelles on 20th September 2019, and will premiere here in French. Thomas Jolly invents this outer world’ scenic space while Franck Ollu unfolds  his sound universe as a fine connaisseur of Pascal Dusapin’s work and philosophy.

French creation
Opera in eight chapters, on a libretto by Frédéric Boyer based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Created at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Bruxelles)on 20th September 2019.

Before the show

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45 minutes before the show, Salle Bizet
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Meet the choirmaster and sing, with no hang-ups, some of the tunes of the opera you’re about to see.

45 minutes before the show, Foyer Favart
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Cast

Musical direction
Franck Ollu
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Stage direction
Thomas Jolly
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Compositor
Pascal Dusapin
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Écrivain, Traducteur et Éditeur
Frédéric Boyer
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Artistic collaboration
Alexandre Dain
Decors
Bruno de Lavenère
Costumes
Sylvette Dequest
Lights
Antoine Travert
Dramaturgy
Katja Krüger
Musical assistant
Josep Planells Schiaffino
Chief oh choir
Richard Wilberforce
Vocal coach
Yoan Héreau
Lady Macbeth
Katarina Bradić
Macbeth
Georg Nigl
Weird Sisters
Ekaterina Lekhina
Weird Sisters
Lilly Jørstad
Weird Sisters
Christel Loetzsch
Ghost
Matthew Best
Porter
John Graham Hall
Child
Airelle Groleau
of the Maîtrise Populaire

Actors : Stanislas Briche, Alexander Espinosa Correoso, Michael Guevara, Vladimir Hugot, Benoit Maubrey, Guillaume Rabain, Frédéric Schalck et Gabriel Soler

Choir
Opéra de Rouen Normandie
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Orchestra
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Co-commissioned by the
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opéra Comique

Production
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opéra Comique, Opéra de Rouen Normandie

With the support of the
Fonds de Création Lyrique et de la SACD

Tour

Opéra de Rouen - Normandie 12, 14 mai 2020

With the support of

Fonds de création lyrique
SACD
La culture avec la copie privée
En partenariat avec
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France Musique
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