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ONP Garnier, Monday April 15 2024 Conductor: William Christie. Production: David McVicar. Sets and Costumes: Bunny Christie. Lighting: Paule Constable. Choreography: Lynne Page, revived by Gemma Payne. Médée: Lea Desandre. Jason: Reinoud Van Mechelen. Créon: Laurent Naouri. Créuse, Premier Fantôme : Ana Vieira Leite. Oronte: Gordon Bintner. Nérine: Emmanuelle De Negri. Cléone: Elodie Fonnard. Arcas: Lisandro Abadie. L'Amour, Première captive: Julie Roset. L'italienne, Deuxième captive: Mariasole Mainini. Choeur à trois voix: Maud Gnidzaz, Alice Gregorio, Bastien Rimondi. Une captive: Juliette Perret. Second fantôme: Virginie Thomas. Une captive: Julia Wischniewski. Deuxième corinthien, Un argien, Un captif, Démon: Clément Debieuvre. Premier corinthien, Un argien, Jalousie: Bastien Rimondi. Un argien, Vengeance: Matthieu Walendzik. Les Arts Florissants. Photos: Elisa Haberer - ONP   ' Premiere of Charpentier’s Médée last night at the Garnier in a 2013 McVicar ENO production...

Opéra Comique, Paris, Friday January 18 2013 Conductor: William Christie. Production: Andreas Homoki. Sets: Paul Zoller. Costumes: Gideon Davey. Lighting: Franck Evin. David: Pascal Charbonneau. Jonathas: Ana Quintans. Saül: Arnaud Richard. Joabel: Krešimir Špicer. Achis: Frédéric Caton. La Pythonisse: Dominique Visse. L'Ombre de Samuel, premier guerrier: Pierre Bessière. Les Arts Florissants. After all they put up with, you might think operagoers would, as well as having cast-iron buttocks, thanks to Wagner, be hard-boiled all round. Yet in fact we’re quite sensitive: little contretemps of all kinds can make us less receptive. On Friday evening, not only was there unusually heavy snow in Paris (any snow in Paris is unusual), making me worry about taking off for New York the next day. But also, my two fellow-subscribers called in sick at the last minute, leaving me alone with two spare tickets in my balcony seat. These simple things may explain why, though this well-travelled ...