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ONP Bastille, Wednesday March 6 2024 Conductor: Thomas Adès. Production: Calixto Bieito. Sets: Anna-Sofia Kirsch. Costumes: Ingo Krügler. Lighting: Reinhard Traub. Lucía de Nobile: Jacquelyn Stucker. Leticia Maynar: Gloria Tronel. Leonora Palma: Hilary Summers. Silvia de Ávila: Claudia Boyle. Blanca Delgado: Christine Rice. Beatriz: Ilanah Lobel-Torres (replacing Amina Edris). Edmundo de Nobile: Nicky Spence. Count Raúl Yebenes: Frédéric Antoun. Colonel Álvaro Gómez: Jarrett Ott. Francisco de Ávila: Anthony Roth Costanzo. Eduardo: Filipe Manu. Señor Russell: Philippe Sly. Alberto Roc: Paul Gay. Doctor Carlos Conde: Clive Bayley. Julio – Butler: Thomas Faulkner. Lucas – Footman: Julien Henric. Enrique – Waiter: Nicholas Jones. Pablo – Cook: Andres Cascante. Meni – Maid: Ilanah Lobel-Torres. Camila – Maid: Bethany Horak-Hallett. Padre Sansón: Régis Mengus. Yoli: member of the Hauts de Seine children's choir. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra National de Paris. Photos: Agathe Poupeney...

La Monnaie (at Halles de Schaerbeek), Brussels, Sunday September 27 2015. Conductor: Alejo Pérez. Production: Mariusz Trelinski. Sets: Boris Kudlicka. Costumes: Marek Adamski. Lighting: Felice Ross. Video: Bartek Macias. Duchess: Allison Cook. Hotel Manager, Duke, Laundryman, Other guest: Peter Coleman-Wright. Electrician, Lounge Lizard, Waiter, Priest, Rubbernecker, Delivery boy: Leonardo Capalbo. Maid, Confidante, Waitress, Mistress, Rubbernecker, Society journalist: Kerstin Avemo. La Monnaie orchestra. Thomas Adès Brussels’ royal opera house is shut for renovation, so this season is peripatetic. On account of work, I missed what was apparently a fun (and more) production of L'Elisir d'Amore at the Cirque Royal two weeks back, being in Muscat instead. Powder Her Face took us to a former market hall in Schaerbeek, up near the Nord station, where the streets are lined with Turkish grocers’, cafés, restaurants and cake shops. So for a change, on an unusually sunny day...