Why weren't we won over by
Le Couronnement de Poppée
at the Opéra national du Rhin, when the project had a lot of tricks up its sleeve?
We were curious to discover at the Opera the work of the director Evgeny Titov, in his forties until now known to theatergoers.
Russian born in Kazakhstan, he made his career in Germany, where he probably forged this expressionist style, which does not shrink from flesh, blood, the sordid.
It's tempting, when it comes to Monteverdi's masterpiece, the most erotic and cynical opera in the repertoire, where not one character redeems the other.
Titov has a sense of violence, but also of comedy.
Poppée prostitutes herself in a peep-show frequented by Néron, a small strike accompanied by his henchmen, who provide the coke and help him start his motorcycle.
She aspires to take the place of the legitimate wife, bourgeois on the verge of a nervous breakdown who does not hesitate to bring a circular saw to open the door of the cabaret...
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