Cycle
Mirroring worlds
La montagne noire
Drame lyrique in four acts and five tableaux on a libretto by the composer, first performed at the Paris Opéra on 8 February 1895.
Opera

Augusta Holmès – who wrote both libretto and music for this work set in seventeenth-century Montenegro – recounts the struggle of a warlord torn between passionate love and honour. La Montagne noire does not shrink from extravagances of every kind, and allowed its author to enter the exclusive circle of women fortunate enough to create a work for the Paris Opera.
Dates
Performers
ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE DORTMUND
CHŒUR DE L’OPERA DE DORTMUND
Motonori Kobayashi conductor
Fabio Mancini choir coach
Emily Hehl director
Frank Philipp Schlößmann sets
Emma Sophie Hoffmann costumes
Adriana Naldoni choreographies
Yamina Aude Extrémo
Mirko Sergey Radchenko
Aslar Mandla Mndebele
Héléna Anna Sohn
Dara Agnes Zwierko
Le Père Sava Denis Velev
CHŒUR DE L’OPERA DE DORTMUND
Motonori Kobayashi conductor
Fabio Mancini choir coach
Emily Hehl director
Frank Philipp Schlößmann sets
Emma Sophie Hoffmann costumes
Adriana Naldoni choreographies
Yamina Aude Extrémo
Mirko Sergey Radchenko
Aslar Mandla Mndebele
Héléna Anna Sohn
Dara Agnes Zwierko
Le Père Sava Denis Velev
Coproduction Oper Dortmund / Palazzetto Bru Zane
Score published by the Palazzetto Bru Zane
Score published by the Palazzetto Bru Zane