LIVE FROM THE EASTER FESTIVAL IN BADEN-BADEN
EuroArts Music presents two live productions, which will be recorded at this year's Easter Festival in Baden-Baden
Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 6:00 p.m. CET
Live signal available
Opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini after Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut des Abbé Prévost
Berliner Philharmoniker • Sir Simon Rattle, conductor • Philharmonia Choir Vienna
Eva-Maria Westbroek, Manon Lescaut • Lester Lnych, Lescaut • Massimo Giordano, Chevalier Renato Des Grieux • Liang Li, Geronte de Ravoir • Bogdan Mihai, Edmond • Reinhard Dorn, Innkeeper • Magdalena Kožená, Singer • Kresimir Spicer, Dancing Master • Arthur Espiritu, Lamplighter • Johannes Kammler, Sergeant
Richard Eyre, direction • Robert Howell, stage • Fotini Dimou, costumes • Peter Mumford, light design
The fact that the Berliner Philharmoniker turn to Puccini – this beloved yet ostracized composer – is symbolic. Here is someone who was thought to be outmoded for a long time, but there is really so much more to be discovered about him and his work. The tale of one, who becomes a model but remains a girl, is very contemporary.
Length: approx. 150' • HD
Directed by János Darvas