Notable Performances at the Opéra National de Lorraine
A look back at the recent notable performances at the Opéra National de Lorraine.
Orfeo, Luigi Rossi
Closing the 2015–16 season based around the myth of Orpheus, (Orpheus in the Underworld —Jacques Offenbach, Orfeo ed Euridice— Christoph Willibald Gluck), Rossi's Orfeo, believed to be one of the first operas performed in France in 1647, is a truly special musical experience.
In 2016, the Opéra received the Grand Prix du meilleur spectacle lyrique de l'année (Grand prize for the best opera of the year) from the Association professionnelle de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse.
The Golden Cockerel, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Deemed "a cruel and ambiguous tale" by director Laurent Pelly, The Golden Cockerel offers a portrait of power and politics in the home country of the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Golden Cockerel won the 2017 prize for Francophone Europe, awarded by the l'Association professionnelle de la Critique, which was shared with the co-producers of the show, the Théâtre de La Monnaie–De Munt in Brussels and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Katia Kabanova, Leoš Janáček
Katia Kabanova is noted for its incredible moving scenery, designed by David Hohmann for the performance directed by Philipp Himmelmann. The dollies on which the scenery is attached move continuously, as they are being pushed by a team of technicians behind the scenes.
The 2019 Weltenbauer Award was awarded to Katia Kabanova for its technical direction.
Werther, Jules Massenet
This new reimagining of Massenet's opera, inspired by The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, saw the mezzo soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac and the tenor Edgaras Montvidas together on stage.
In 2017, the production won the Claude Rostand prize for the best opera in the Provence region.
Artaserse, Leonardo Vinci
A baroque masterpiece performed in Nancy for the first time in 2012 before a long European tour, bringing together the greatest countertenors of the time: Phillippe Jarrousky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli, Juan Sancho, and even Valer Bama Sabadus.
This production ofArtaserse was nominated for the International Opera Awards in the Rediscovered Work category in 2013, and it won the German Echo Klassik prize for best DVD.
