The Opéra national de Toulouse presents its 2022/23 season
Having recently become a “National Opera”, the Toulouse Opera presented its new season, fashioned in a “ pragmatic rebuilding” by its director Christophe Ghristi, with a share of new productions and a share of reports from the shows of the two previous seasons, limited by covid-19 and confinements.
In addition to four ballets, performed around twenty evenings in Toulouse and as many times on tour, the season gives pride of place to opera with eight titles, without inclusion towards the French repertoire, for which two titles are promised the following season. . The Czech book Rusalka by Dvořák opens the program and will be the only work from the east, Russian works also being absent, unrelated to the current situation in Ukraine. A Bohemia then allows two casts with numerous role-plays by French singers, including Vannina Santoni and Anaïs Constans for Mimi.
The rest strikes a balance between classical repertoire (The wedding of Mozart by Hervé Niquet), contemporary (Dafne by Mitterer), Italian (Mephistopheles of Boito with Courjal; La Traviata by Verdi directed by the talented Michele Spotti), English (The Rape of Lucrete de Britten) and German with a return of the musical team of Parsifal (Koch, Schukoff, Goerne, Beermann) this time for Tristan and Isolda, in the revival of Nicolas Joël’s production. Wagnerians could combine this opera over a weekend with a recital by Nina Stemme on Sunday, the singing recitals also taking an important place in the Toulouse season, with the presence of Vargas, Urmana, Breslik, Goerne or even Degout, in more concerts and discovery weekends. (GV)
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