Les Indes galantes

Composer: Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Librettist/Text Author: Fuzelier, Louis

Conductor: Bolton, Ivor

Orchestra: Munchner Festspielorchester

Chorus: Balthasar Neumann Choir

Chorus Master: Bratschke, Detlef

Adario: Johnny Moore 3 Blazers

Ali: Nazmi, Tareq

Bellone: Juric, Goran

Damon: Vidal, Mathias

Don Alvaro: Lis, Francois

Don Carlos: Vidal, Mathias

Emilie: Benoit, Elsa

Fatime: Prohaska, Anna

Hebe: Oropesa, Lisette

Huascar: Lis, Francois

L'Amour: Quintans, Ana

Osman: Nazmi, Tareq

Phani: Prohaska, Anna

Tacmas: Auvity, Cyril

Valere: Auvity, Cyril

Zaire: Quintans, Ana

Zima: Oropesa, Lisette

Set Designer: Viebrock, Anna

Set Designer: Goiris, Greta

Lighting Designer: Bauer, Michael

Choreographer: Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi

Stage Director: Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi

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Date of Production: 11-2017

Venue: Prinzregententheater, Munich

Playing Time: 02:59:59

Catalogue Number: BAC138

UPC: 3760115301382

Synopsis

Les Indes galantes

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In Dreams of Babel, a documentary about the dance prodigy Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui released on DVD by Bel Air Classiques in 2010, the choreographer explained how shifting identities, multiculturalism, and his own plural heritage as the son of an immigrant, had shaped his dramaturgy and artistic inspiration. Thus, to take on the stage direction for Les Indes Galantes, whose multiple plots take place in a fantasized exotic elsewhere, supposed to mirror the European society, meant for Cherkaoui bringing the tension between identity and alterity to a whole new level. And the choreographer pushes his reflection much farther than mere baroque specular aesthetics: his Indes Galantes raise the sensible issues of population movements, fragmented and ever-changing territories and borders, but also the refugee crisis that has shaken Europe to its very core.

For this new production at the Prinzregenten Theater, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui brought his own dance ensemble, the Eastman company, as well as a brilliant vocal cast, among which Anna Prohaska, Francois Lis or Lisette Oropesa. Ivor Bolton conducts a Munchner Festspielorchester at the top of its game.