Details

This Season's chamber production from the Young Artists is a double-bill of staged version of Massenet's rarely performed one act opera Le Portrait de Manon, first performed on 8 May 1894, and Berlioz's song cycle Les Nuits d'ete, composed in 1841 for voice and piano and augmented with an orchestral accompaniment in 1856.

Cast/Performers

Susana Gaspar (Aurore - Le Portrait De Manon), Hanna Hipp (Jean - Le Portrait De Manon), Pablo Bemsch (Tiberge - Le Portrait De Manon), ZhengZhong Zhou (Des Grieux - Le Portrait De Manon), Volker Krafft (Les Nuits D'Ete), Pablo Bemsch (Vilanelle / Au cimetiere - Les Nuits D'Ete), Hanna Hipp (La spectre de la rose / Sur leslagunes - Les Nuits D'Ete), Susana Gaspar (Absence / L'Ile - Les Nuits D'Ete)

Creatives/Company

Music(s): JulesMassenet, Hector Berlioz
Director: Pedro Ribeiro
Design: Sophie Mosberger
Lighting: Warren Letton
Company: Southbank Sinfonia
Conductor(s): Geoffrey Paterson (Le Portrait De Manon), Volker Krafft (Les Nuits D'Ete)