Henze – The Bassarids
Châtelet, Paris – April 21 2005 Conductor: Kazushi Ono. Production: Yannis Kokkos. Agave: June Anderson. Autonoe: Marisol Montalvo. Beroe: Rebecca de Pont Davies. Dionysus: Rainer Trost. Pentheus: Franco Pomponi. Cadmus: Matthew Best. Tiresias: Kim Begley. Captain of the Royal Guard: Robin Adams. Chorus of the Théâtre du Châtelet. Instrumental ensemble: Nathalie Steinberg, Michael Ertzscheid, Frédéric Rouillon (piano), Lyonel Schmit (violin), Camille Baslé, Alexandre Bérard, Thierry Briard, Jean-Guillaume Cattin, Ionela Cristu, Nathalie Gantiez, Jérôme Guicherd (percussion), Caroline Delume (guitar), Annick Robergeau (mandolin), François Ducroux (double bass), Marguerite Deleuze, Valeria Kafelnikov (harp), Stéphane Petitjean/Cécile Restier (celesta), Emmanuel Collombert, Patrick Fabert, Arnaud Laporte, Rodolph Puechbroussous (trumpet). Powerful performance of powerful work transforms farce into triumph A strike of technical staff at Radio France very nearly turned the Châtelet’s new pr...