Name: Le prophète
Start: 2024-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Fisher Center

Admin

Bard Summerscape

Tenor

Robert Watson

Jean de Leyde

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Feinstein

Fidès

Soprano

Amina Edris

Berthe

Dirigent

Leon Botstein

Orchestra

American Symphony Orchestra

Fisher Center at Bard

Regissör

Christian Räth

Scenograf

Daniel Unger

Kostym designer

Mattie Ullrich

Koreograf

Catherine Galasso

Ljus designer

Rick Fisher

Video designer

Elaine J McCarthy

Bass

Harold Wilson

Zacharie

Bass-baritone

Wu Wei

Mathisen

Zachary Altman

Le Comte d'Oberthal

Brian Vu

Jonas

franska

Le prophète -  (Profeten)

Annandale

Fisher Center

Sosnoff Theater

Virtual: Le prophète

Description
Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama. Shepherded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists, the simple innkeeper Jean de Leyde is persuaded into proclaiming himself king of Münster. Armed with charismatic leadership, Jean mobilizes the masses into a tumultuous religious uprising, denouncing his mother, Fidès, and antagonizing his beloved Berthe along the way. Director Christian Räth (Die Schweigsame Frau, 2022 and Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to lead a visionary new production of a grand opera with colorful vocal passages, inventive orchestrations, and a catastrophic end.

Public

Profeten

Sharan Allad

engelska

Approved

Le prophète Meyerbeer

Maestro Leon Botstein on Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le Prophete

Maestro's Introduction

Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama.

Shepherded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists, the simple innkeeper Jean de Leyde is persuaded into proclaiming himself king of Münster. Armed with charismatic leadership, Jean mobilizes the masses into a tumultuous religious uprising, denouncing his mother, Fidès, and antagonizing his beloved Berthe along the way.

Director Christian Räth (Die schweigsame Frau, 2022 and Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to lead a visionary new production of a grand opera with colorful vocal passages, inventive orchestrations, and a catastrophic end.

Fisher Center presents

Le prophète
BY GIACOMO MEYERBEER
New Production
Sung in French with English supertitles

Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps
Directed by Christian Räth
American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein

Upcoming Event Details

July 26 at 6:30 pm
July 28 at 2:00 pm
July 31 at 2:00 pm
August 2 at 4:00 pm
August 4 at 2:00 pm

Location

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

English

Föreställningskrediter (Medverkande & produktionsteam )

Medverkande

Besättning

Ensemble

Medproducent