Cesare Angelotti
As part of the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, filmmaker Christophe Honoré delivers an innovative staging of Giacomo Puccini's famous drama. His cleverly staged "opera within the opera" is a melancholy homage to the fascinating figure of the diva, who thrives on art and love and upsets the laws of time and death.
Doctor
Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.
Cesare Angelotti
The painter Mario Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape – and so attracts the attention of Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of Police. Scarpia captures Cavaradossi and has him tortured within earshot of his lover, the singer Tosca. Scarpia sentences Cavaradossi to death – but promises Tosca that her lover can be saved if she gives herself to Scarpia. Tosca consents but as soon as the order has been given kills Scarpia. Scarpia’s menace continues even in death: betrayed by a double-cross, Cavaradossi dies and Tosca leaps to her death.
Count Ceprano
Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems the curse is taking effect… Rigoletto arranges to have the Duke assassinated. But Gilda still loves the womanizing Duke and sacrifices herself in his place. Rigoletto eagerly uncovers the corpse only to find instead his fatally wounded daughter, who dies in his arms.
Second Man in Armour
밤의 여왕은 타미노 왕자에게 자신의 딸인 파미나 공주가 자라스트로라는 폭군에게 납치되었다며 구출을 도와달라고 한다. 타미노는 새잡이 파파게노와 함께 파미나를 구하기 위한 여정을 시작한다. 그들은 여왕이 건넨 마술피리의 도움으로 공주를 만나지만, 자라스트로가 여왕의 말과 달리 폭군이 아니고 철학자라는 사실을 알게 된다. 타미노 왕자는 그들의 일원이 되기 위해 침묵의 시험을 받게 되고, 공주는 말 없는 타미노를 오해하기 이른다.
