For thirty-five years, Robert Carsen has been constructing a body of work.
His stagings sweep across the entire lyrical repertoire from baroque to contemporary, with constants that end up constituting a language: aesthetics, coherence, perfectionism, ingenuity.
After so many successes in Handel, from Aix-en-Provence to Paris, he rediscovered this favorite composer at Garnier, with the masterpiece
Ariodante.
And it's pure sugar Carsen!
Which raises the question of renewal: how far can we speak of a style, from when do we repeat ourselves?
But, past this fleeting impression of rediscovering proven strings, we tell ourselves that after all, we are not obliged to discover the moon each time, and we do not sulk our pleasure in front of this plastic beauty which disputes it to skill.
Background music
Here we are at Balmoral, in the company of a royal family worthy of The
Crown
series .
Elegantly lit, the predominantly green decors open up and tighten to the rhythm of the lived experience of the characters, whose actions…
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