Special envoy to Geneva
Before having to give up some of his most ambitious projects, Aviel Cahn had started a more than promising mandate at the head of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, paving the way for a new lease of life for the main opera scene in French-speaking Switzerland.
This time, we can pick up the thread!
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Audience, orchestra and choirs are back in full force, with one of the most overwhelming works in the repertoire:
War and Peace
, the opera that Prokofiev took from Tolstoy's river-novel.
With 28 singers sharing 47 roles (at least in the version performed in Geneva), not to mention the choir, everything came together to create a fresco à la Cecil B. DeMille, as Francesca Zambello had done in one of the most famous productions in the past. most successful of the Opéra-Bastille.
Calixto Bieito's tour de force was to make it an intimate show.
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