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Luca Francesconi, Heiner Müller, Teatro alla Scala

The Holland Festival 2013 opens with a tale of love, intrigue, heartbreak and torment. Based on Heiner Müller’s stage version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, composer Luca Francesconi wrote an opera which had its world premiere in 2011 at Milan’s La Scala Theatre with a spectacular staging by Àlex Ollé. On a stage that symbolises their emotional prison, Valmont and Merteuil fight their bitter, violent battles, a vocal duel interspersed with orchestral dreams of what could have been, but never will be. After all, the two former lovers not only play a deadly game with the hearts of others, with their cynical machinations they ultimately also condemn their own chances of happiness to failure.

dates

Sat June 1 2013 10:30 PM

Sun June 2 2013 10:30 PM

information

  • English

  • Duration of performance unknown (zonder pauze)

  • © Teatro alla Scala

credits

music Luca Francesconi libretto Luca Francesconi conductor Susanna Mälkki direction Àlex Ollé set Alfons Flores video Franc Aleu costumes Lluc Castells light design Marco Filibeck design La Fura dels Baus computer sound design Serge Lemouton (IRCAM) sound direction Sébastien Naves computer music production Benoit Meudic recording, editing and mixing of choir and orchestra Julien Aléonard chorus conductor Bruno Casoni cast Robin Adams Allison Cook orchestra Ensemble da camera dell'Accademia, Teatro alla Scala production Teatro alla Scala coproduction Wiener Festwochen in participation with IRCAM, Parijs thanks to Ypma Piano’s / Steinway Center Nederland

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