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Il viaggio a Reims

Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)

From 18/12/2011 in Antwerp - from 11/01/2012 in Ghent

• Musical direction: Alberto Zedda / Ryuichiro Sonoda
• Director: Mariame Clément
• Contessa di Folleville: Elena Tsallagova
• Cavalier Belfiore: José Manuel Zapata / Robert McPherson
• Don Alvaro: Riccardo Novaro / Andrè Schuen
• Conte di Libenskof: Sergey Romanovsky / Alexey Kudrya

European party

 A group of aristocratic tourists travels from all corners of Europe to Reims. They are on their way to Charles X's coronation. However, they are stranded in the ‘Giglio d’oro’ spa in Plombières and decide to improvise their own coronation party. This is the prelude to Rossini's dramma giocoso. A hilarious performance, full of musical jokes and double entendres, one of the highlights being a parody on European folk songs. The young director is Mariame Clément, who has moved the setting of the spa to an airplane.

Production of the Ópera de Oviedo.

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Team

Il viaggio a Reims bears witness to Rossini's musical talent and ingenuity: it is one of his best operas. It is hard to imagine anyone better than conductor and Rossini specialist Alberto Zedda for this exuberant opera. Last season he won everyone over with Semiramide. He will work with a cast of ten exquisite Rossini performers. The young and successful Mariame Clément is directing. Her direction of Il viaggio a Reims already caught the attention of the opera theatres of Bern, Oviedo and Tel Aviv, as will be the case in Flanders Opera.

• Musical direction
  Alberto Zedda - 18, 21, 23, 29, 31 Dec 2011 / 11, 15, 21 Jan 2012
• Ryuichiro Sonoda - 27 Dec 2011 / 13, 18 Jan 2012
• Director
  Mariame Clément
• Set design
  Julia Hansen
• Costumes
  Julia Hansen
• Lightning
  Glen D'haenens
• Chorus master
  Yannis Pouspourikas
• Choir
  Koor van de Vlaamse Opera
• Orchestra
  Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera
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• Contessa di Folleville
  Elena Tsallagova
• Cavalier Belfiore
  José Manuel Zapata - 11, 13, 15, 18, 21 Jan 2012
• Robert McPherson - 18, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31 Dec 2011
• Don Alvaro
  Riccardo Novaro - 21 Dec 2011
• Andrè Schuen - 18, 23, 27, 29, 31 Dec 2011 / 11, 13, 15, 18, 21 Jan 2012
• Conte di Libenskof
  Sergey Romanovsky - 11 Jan 2012
• Alexey Kudrya - 18, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31 Dec 2011 / 13, 15, 18, 21 Jan 2012
• Marchesa Melibea
  Anna Goryachova
• Corinna
  Elena Gorshunova
• Barone di Trombonok
  Cozmin Sime
• Madama Cortese
  Serena Farnocchia
• Lord Sidney
  Josef Wagner
• Don Profondo
  Carlo Lepore
• Don Prudenzio
  Igor Bakan
• Don Luigino
  Gijs Van der Linden
• Maddalena
  Anneke Luyten
• Delia
  Chia-Fen Wu
• Modestina
  Els Van Daele
• Zefirino
  Maarten Heirman
• Antonio
  Simon Schmidt