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ONP Paris-Bastille, Thursday October 14 2021 Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher. Production: Wajdi Mouawad. Sets: Emmanuel Clolus. Costumes: Emmanuelle Thomas. Make-up, hairdressing and headwear: Cécile Kretschmar. Lighting: Éric Champoux. Video: Stéphane Pougnand. Œdipe: Christopher Maltman. Tirésias: Clive Bayley. Créon: Brian Mulligan. Le berger: Vincent Ordonneau. Le grand prêtre: Laurent Naouri. Phorbas/Le Veilleur: Nicolas Cavallier. Thésée: Adrian Timpau. Laïos: Éric Huchet. Jocaste: Ekaterina Gubanova. La Sphinge: Clémentine Margaine. Antigone: Anna-Sophie Neher. Mérope: Anne Sofie von Otter. Une Thébaine: Daniela Entcheva. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra National de Paris. Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Paris Opera children’s chorus. I first saw Oedipe in Brussels, almost exactly ten years ago , and was impressed: 'This, for me, was a major discovery of the kind I haven’t made since Die tote Stadt or (to a lesser extent) Die Gezeichneten . It should appeal to anyone who enjoys ...

La Monnaie, Brussels, Sunday November 6 2011 Conductor: Leo Hussain. Production: Alex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus), Valentina Carrasco. Sets: Alfons Flores. Costumes: Lluc Castells. Lighting: Peter Van Praet. Œdipe: Dietrich Henschel. Tirésias: Jan-Hendrik Rootering. Créon: Robert Bork. Le Berger: John Graham-Hall. Le Grand-Prêtre: Jean Teitgen. Phorbas: Henk Neven. Le Veilleur: Frédéric Caton. Thésée: Nabil Suliman. Laios: Yves Saelens. Jocaste: Natascha Petrinsky. La Sphinge: Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Antigone: Ilse Eerens. Mérope: Catherine Keen. Une femme thébaine: Kinga Borowska. Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie. “ Œdipe is one of the supreme operatic masterpieces of all time, one of the pinnacles of 20th century opera, of the kind that, alongside Pelléas , Wozzeck , Lulu or Die Soldaten , can be ticked off on the fingers of our hands.” Harry Halbreich. So he’s a fan. Also in the programme notes for this new Brussels production, as well as in La Monnaie’s subscriber magazine, ...