Il Palazzo Incantato, Luigi Rossi (Gwendoline Blondeel)
Il Palazzo incantato, Azione in musica (action in music)In three acts with the prologue
MUSIC Luigi Rossi
LIBRETTO Giulio Rospigliosi (future Pope Clement IX) after Orlando furioso from Ariosto
CREATED at the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane Palazzo Barberini, Rome, February 22, 1642
SHOW IN ITALIAN WITH FRENCH OVERTITLES
While Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, which was of capital historic importance in the development of opera in 17th century France, has been the object of a few stage productions, this is not the case for his first — and only other — lyric work, Il Palazzo incantato, premiered in Rome in February 1642. This production brought to Dijon by Leonardo García Alarcón and Fabrice Murgia is thus as precious a treat as the recent Finta Pazza. A massive work — 16 soloists, double and triple choirs of 6 and 12 voices, numerous ballets, and seven hours of performance for the premiere ! — Il Palazzo marks the last flamboyance of opera as practiced in Rome before the Eternal City turned its back for a long, dry spell. The libretto, written by Cardinal Rospigliosi, later to become Pope Clement IX, was the first adaptation of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, a masterpiece of Italian poetry with a long lyric history. In an enchanted palace-labyrinth where the sorcerer Atlantes imprisons and turns to madness the very best of chivalry and gallantry, we also find preserved the most inventive and intriguing blossoming of lamenti, arias and ensembles arising from an ephemeral Roman spring. With singers, actors, acrobats and dancers, Fabrice Murgia turns this masterpiece into a festive celebration of total art.
NEW PRODUCTION OF THE DIJON OPERA
ENSEMBLE & ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA
DIJON OPERA CHOIR
CHAMBER OF NAMUR CHAMBER
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Leonardo García AlarcónMUSICAL DIRECTION ASSISTANTS Rodrigo Calveyra et Fabián SchofrinVOCAL COACH Jacopo RaffaeleCHOIR CHIEF Anass Ismat
STAGING Fabrice Murgia
STAGE SETS Vincent Lemaire
COSTUMES Clara Peluffo Valentini
VIDEO Giacinto Caponio
LIGHTING Emily Brassier | Giacinto Capanio
ASSISTANAT À LA MISE EN SCÈNE Filippo Ferraresi
ORLANDO Victor Sicard
ANGELICA Arianna Vendittelli
RUGGIERO Fabio Trümpy
BRADAMANTE | LA PEINTURE Deanna Breiwick
ATLANTE Mark Milhofer
OLYMPIA | LA MUSIQUE Lucía Martín-Cartón
MARFISA | LA MAGIE | DORALICE Mariana Flores
GIGANTE | SACRIPANTE | GRADASSO Grigory Soloviov
PRASILDO | LE NAIN Kacper Szelążek
ALCESTE André Lacerda
FERRAU | ASTOLFO Valerio Contaldo
FIORDILIGI | LA POÉSIE Gwendoline Blondeel
MANDRICARDO Alexander Miminoshvili
CADREURS Johann Michalzcak & David Vong
COMEDIANS Pascal Carbon, Adrien Philippon, Priscilla Bescond, Sarah Mussard, Emeline Losange, Juliette Tardif & Raphaël Mena
COSTUMES Opéra national de Lorraine
SETS Dijon Opéra & Eclectik Scéno (for one part of the set)
SCORE EDITS Cappella Mediterranea / Transcription Pascal Duc Révisions & édition pratique : Leonardo García Alarcón
SUBTITLES Richard Neel
