Release Date

10 Apr, 2024

Runtime

03:07: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Opera National de Paris

Possibly mythology’s most unfathomable character: Medea, the sorceress, betrayed by her husband Jason, takes revenge by offering the latter’s lover a poisoned dress and then killing her own children. Such a destiny, so often portrayed in the arts, could not but be embodied at the Opera. In 1693, Marc-Antoine Charpentier premiered his only “tragédie lyrique”, based on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, at the Académie royale de Musique – forerunner of the Paris Opera – in the presence of Louis XIV. Three centuries after its creation, this baroque score of great orchestral wealth returns for the first time to the stage of the Paris Opera, under the baton of William Christie. Renowned for his exceptionally articulate interpretations, director David McVicar transposes the action to the Second World War, thus reinforcing the heroine’s tragic character.

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Actors

Lea Desandre

Julie Roset

Emmanuelle de Negri

Reinoud van Mechelen

Lisandro Abadie

Laurent Naouri

Gordon Bintner

Ana Vieira Leite

Elodie Fonnard

William Christie

Crew

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

David McVicar