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Opera: a Don Carlos under the sign of greyness

2023-09-20T15:45:54.003Z

Highlights: At the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Lydia Steier offers a stripped-down staging of the five-act and French-language version of Verdi's opera. The American director had rather distinguished herself by her punchy shows, at the risk of being blamed for the overload. And now that she opts for stripping, we find her dull! Transpose the conflict between throne, altar and love in a Stalinist totalitarian country where everyone spies on everyone...This article is for subscribers only. You still have 70% to discover.


CRITIQUE - At the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Lydia Steier offers a stripped-down staging of the five-act and French-language version of Verdi's opera.


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We do not give up: despite all that is reproached to him, the version in five acts and in French of Verdi's Don Carlos is the most successful! If we find the long time, it is because something is wrong with the realization. The one proposed by the Grand Théâtre de Genève is one of those shows that are neither memorable nor dishonourable, which are not so easy to report. A form of greyness? The image is all the more tempting as the sets and costumes present a dominant of gray. Until now, the American director Lydia Steier had rather distinguished herself by her punchy shows, at the risk of being blamed for the overload. And now that she opts for stripping, we find her dull!

Like Warlikowski in Paris, it seems that she did not dare to appropriate this golden subject. Transpose the conflict between throne, altar and love in a Stalinist totalitarian country where everyone spies on everyone...

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