Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/enMusical direction: Sir Simon Rattle
Stage direction (semi-staged version): Marie-Ève Signeyrole*
Stage design: Fabien Teigné
Light Philippe: Berthomé
Theseus: Damien Bigourdan
Theseus' mother: Lucie Roche*
Dedalus: Damien Pass*
Minos: Miloud Khétib
Chorus: Amateur choristers (children, teenagers and adults)
Chorus Director: Simon Halsey
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra and Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
The King of Crete has defeated Greece. He imposes a terrible tribute on the vanquished population: each year the city of Athens has to send young men who will be thrown into Dedalus’s labyrinth and eventually be devoured by the beast locked up in it, the notorious minotaur, half-man, half-bull. Appropriating this epic drama, British composer Jonathan Dove has written an opera for the young and the old, interpreted by a handful of soloists, a youth orchestra that will be trained with the help of the London Symphony Orchestra musicians, and 300 amateur choristers from the region of Aix, including children, teenagers and adults. Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, all embark on an adventure which promises to breathe much life and spirit into this great mythological saga. A pedagogical project par excellence, this performance will be the culmination of a series of workshops for amateur choristers, organised throughout the year by the Festival’s Passerelles department.
On 8 July 2015 at 8pm and on 9 July 2015 at 11amJonathan Dove : The Monster in the Maze
