Once again, at Theatre des Champs Elysees, an opera success.!

Jean-Christophe Spinosi

This time it is Georg Friedrich Haendels opera ORLANDO, with the wonderful alto Sonia Prina in the titelrole,  closely followed up by Henriette Bonde-Hansen as Angelica, with the most beautiful pianissimo tunes

. Lucy Crowe was a highlight as Dorinda. Nathan Berg deep and beautiful as Zoroastro, and Stephen Wallace as Medoro. In addition we enjoyed very much Colm Seery in the beautiful stum role as Amore.

Brilliant dancers.   A big excuse for that this Haendel performance not was being too long (it was nearl 4 and 1/2 hour) was the splendid dancers, changing costumes and appearing in so many different roles, both in the costumes, and in the appearances, that the audience thaught that the here were 20 dancers on stage, but they were onle 7, in addition to the allready mentioned Colm Seery as Amore in a fantastic costume by Jenny Tiramani, who wis responsible for the beautiful costumes and well functioning scenography, the dancers were: Aniol Busquets, Paul Chantry, Emma Cole, Valeria Giuga, Henrik Jessen and Sirena Khalatian.  Bravo

The Orchestre was Le Concert d Astree, splendid lead by Emmanuelle Haim. Staging by David McVicar, as mentioned with costumes and scenography by Jenny Tiramani, brilliant and demanding  choreography for the dancers by Andrew George and light by Davy Cunningham. This wonderful Orlando production is a cooproduction between Opera de Lille, Opera de Dijon and Theatre des Champs Elysees
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Jean-Christophe Spinosi direction
Pierre Audi mise en scène
Willem Bruls dramaturgie
Patrick Kinmonth décors et costumes
Peter van Praet lumières
Ensemble Matheus
Choeur de l’Opéra de Nice