Les Indes galantes - Bayerische Staatsoper (2016) - Les Indes galantes - Bayerische Staatsoper (2016)

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Very much in keeping with the spirit of his age, Jean-Philippe Rameau measures the European culture of being lucky or unlucky in love against the image of the noble savage and takes the audience on a journey to four exotic realms. Given that, in the mythical land of Arcadia, people are walking away from Love and choosing to follow the god of war, Amor encourages Love to seek new followers on other continents. Regardless of whether the portrayals of distant lands are accurate representations of reality as conveyed by geographers, or simply a propagation of colonial clichés, Europeans are reflected just as much in the sultan who declines to take advantage of the highly desirable prisoner; in the self-destructively jealous Inka priest; in the love games of Persian princes; and in the prairie Indians who love faithfully and peacefully, as Rameau's furiously portrayed storms and volcanic eruptions stand for their emotional turbulence.

Recollecting the origins of French music theatre within a culture of dance, Rameau plays with a genre which was enjoying a high degree of popularity among his contemporaries, but which today classifies as terra incognita, ripe for rediscovery: the Opéra-ballet. Using a balanced mix of music, drama and dance, and with multiple long-distance location changes, the focus alternates between four couples and their handling of fidelity, trust and jealousy - variations on the increasingly pertinent question: How do we love right?

More information is available on the opera house's official website.

Schedule

July 24, 2016 18:00:00

July 26, 2016 18:00:00

July 27, 2016 18:00:00

July 29, 2016 18:00:00

July 30, 2016 18:00:00

Casting

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Ivor Bolton

Lisette Oropesa

Anna Prohaska

Goran Jurić

Ana Quintans

Lisette Oropesa

Joélle Harvey

Tareq Nazmi

Cyril Auvity

Cyril Auvity

Mathias Vidal

Mathias Vidal

François Lis

John Moore

Tareq Nazmi

Ana Quintans

François Lis

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Hébé

Phani

Bellone

Amour

Zima

Emilie

Osman

Valère

Tacmas

Carlos

Damon

Huascar

Adario

Ali

Zaire

Don Alvaro

Les Indes galantes - Bayerische Staatsoper (2016) (Production - Münich, germany)

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