Don Pasquale
Théatre des Champs Elysées
Monday 13, Wednesday 15, Friday 17, Tuesday 21, Thursday 23 February 2012 7.30pm, Sunday 19 February 2012 5pm.
An old baron dreams of killing two birds with one stone: disinherit his rebellious nephew and steal his young fiancée. But the beautiful girl has more than one trick up her sleeve…
Don Pasquale is one of Donizetti’s works that has never left
the repertoire of the world’s great opera houses. One of Donizetti’s last compositions, the plot draws its inspiration directly from the commedia dell’arte: Don Pasquale is Pantalone, his nephew Ernesto is Pierrot in love, Malatesta is the cunning Scapin and Norina is the sweet Colombina.
Donizetti composed the work in record time – eleven days, according to
his correspondence – not without calling on several of his earlier works. The result is undoubtedly one of the most dazzling illustrations of the bouffe genre in the 19th century.
Gaetano Donizetti
Opéra bouffe in three acts (1843)
libretto by Giovanni Rufini and composer
Enrique Mazzola direction
Denis Podalydès (member of the Comédie Française) staging
Eric Ruf (member of the Comédie Française) Christian Lacroix costumes
Cécile Bon choreography
Stéphanie Daniel lighting
Emmanuel Bourdieu artistic collaborator
Alessandro Corbelli Don Pasquale (13, February 15, 17 and 19) Lorenzo Regazzo Don Pasquale (February 21 and 23) Désirée Rancatore Norina
Gabriele Viviani Dr Malatesta
Francesco Demuro Ernesto Richard Tronc Le Notaire
Orchestre National de France
Chœur de Radio France conductor Nathalie Steinberg
Christian Lacroix creates the costumes for Don Pasquale
Born in Trinquetaille, Arles (1951), he lives and works in Paris and Arles.
After studying classics and art history in Montpellier, then the Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre, he never imagined himself as a painter, teacher or museum curator. So he turned to fashion and costume design, first at Hermès, then at Guy Paulin, in Paris, Italy and Japan, before becoming artistic director of Jean Patou from 1982 to 1987, when Bernard Arnault allowed him to create his own couture house.
Since the 80s, he has also designed costumes for numerous theater, opera and ballet productions, at the Opéra Garnier, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Comédie Française, the Metropolitan in New York, the Festival d’Aix, the Opéra-Comique, the Vienna Opera and Berlin.
Since 2000, he has also been developing a more industrial design activity (TGV, hotels, Gaumont cinemas) and as a scenographer of his own work (Centre National du Costume de Scène in Moulins in 2006, Musée de la Mode and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2007, Musée Réattu and Rencontres d’Arles in 2008), which has become predominant since the recent abrupt end of his activities as a couturier.
This winter and in the coming months, he will be in Germany for numerous productions and set designs (Adrienne Lecouvreur at the Frankfurt Opera, Butterfly at the Hamburg Opera), and in Paris for Peer Gynt at the Comédie Française and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Bouffes du Nord.
He will soon begin a new collaboration with La Monnaie de Paris and, among other projects, will present the third and fourth new streetcar lines for Montpellier, which he has just designed.
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