The last time the Opéra Bastille presented a new stage production, it was
Manon
, on March 4.
This is to say if it was expected, this
Aïda
, certainly still without an audience, but with Arte cameras!
According to a timely schedule, the show commissioned by Stéphane Lissner from director Lotte de Beer arrives at the same time as the report on diversity at the Opera, which has somewhat stirred people's minds lately.
But the comparison is only anecdotal, because if the spectacle of the young Dutchwoman tackles the clichés of Orientalism not without talent, there is nothing new here: in 1981, the production of Hans Neuenfels le was doing in Frankfurt.
Since then, we have hardly seen a production of Verdi's masterpiece that does not pose the question of stereotypes.
We would therefore almost be tempted to speak of a conventional staging!
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