For his latest creation as artist-director of the Festival d’Avignon, Olivier Py returns to epic form. My Exalted Youth mirrors The servant who, in 1995, inaugurated his adventure with this exceptional event. Theater and opera director, director but also actor and author, Olivier Py anchors his work in the heart of youth and the concerns … Read more
It is the title that changed the history of Rock and has always made the “Resurrection” its most controversial theme. I’m over 2 million spectators that in Italy and Europe have already experienced the great emotions of “Jesus Christ Superstar“, the Musical by Massimo Romeo Piparo considered a real international phenomenon, produced … Read more
A concrete-colored wall lowered on the stage between the ancient vestiges of the Caracalla’s thermal baths as a powerful symbol that carries within it the images of all the barriers of separation in the world. Including those of the very recent massacre of migrants who died trying to enter Spanish territory from Morocco through the … Read more
L’Opera Ballet of Flanders programs at the end of the 21/22 season a little-known piece from the romantic repertoire: Robert Schumann’s Faust, which is an oratorio based on Goethe’s mythical work. This Flemish version is directed by the extraordinary Philippe Herreweghe, with videos by German visual artist Julian Rosefeldt. Faust’s Redemption Composed between 1844 and … Read more
Marion Cotillard appears in a Dantesque setting, with a groundbreaking staging and a tone that refers to the cruelty of Passolini, the nudity of Dreyer and the complexity of Bergman. The dramatic oratorio Joan of Arc at the stakethe new bet of the Teatro Real in co-production with the Frankfurt Opera, It is an opera … Read more