27.05.–25.06.2023 / Opera
Hérodiade
Jules Massenet
Dates
19:30 - 22:30
Premiere Opera
18:30 - 21:30
Opera
18:30 - 21:30
Opera
18:30 - 21:30
Opera
19:30 - 22:30
Opera
15:00 - 18:00
Opera
Content
Opera in four acts
Text by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont based on the story "Hérodias" from the "Trois contes" (1877) by Gustave Flaubert
Text by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont based on the story "Hérodias" from the "Trois contes" (1877) by Gustave Flaubert
Hérodiade has left her daughter Salome behind in Rome to marry her brother-in-law Hérode. She wants to gain influence at the side of the tetrarch of Judea. By publicly criticising her, Jean, John the Baptist, creates a dangerous enemy. When Salome comes to Jerusalem in search of her mother, Hérode immediately becomes infatuated with the unknown woman. Jean, the charismatic prophet. While Hérodiade recognises in Salome only her rival and not her daughter, and Jean, in his affection for Salome, incurs the wrath of the humiliated Hérodiade and the lecherous husband, the tetrarch couple lose Jerusalem. In the turmoil of the political power vacuum, Salome and Jean still manage to confess their love to each other before Hérode, vengeful and rejected, stretches out his bloody
Hérodiade finally reveals herself as a mother - too late.
Jules Massenet set the material to music based on Gustave Flaubert's novella "Hérodiade" with grandiose choral passages and a collage-like colouring of the spheres between Rome and Judea, man and woman, eroticism and power.
Director Lorenzo Fioroni tells the story of Hérodiade, who loses everything in the end - her power, for the sake of which she became a cold mother, and her daughter, whose love could have redeemed her.
Hérodiade finally reveals herself as a mother - too late.
Jules Massenet set the material to music based on Gustave Flaubert's novella "Hérodiade" with grandiose choral passages and a collage-like colouring of the spheres between Rome and Judea, man and woman, eroticism and power.
Director Lorenzo Fioroni tells the story of Hérodiade, who loses everything in the end - her power, for the sake of which she became a cold mother, and her daughter, whose love could have redeemed her.
Musikalische Leitung
Marc Piollet
Inszenierung
Bühne
Kostüme
Chorleitung
Dramaturgie
Cast
Hérode
Hérodiade
Salomé
Jean
Riccardo Massi
Phanuel
Vitellius
Der Hohepriester
Ein junger Babylonier
Orchester