Throughout the season

Phèdre

Tragédie lyrique in three acts by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann, first performed on 26 October 1786 at the Château de Fontainebleau.
Opera
At the height of the reign of Louis XVI, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne composed, as a tribute to the Grand Siècle of Louis XIV, an opera modelled on Racine’s play Phèdre (1677). But while the model was Classical, the music reflected all the new trends of an era that foreshadowed Romanticism with its passionate outbursts. Lemoyne dedicated the opera to Gluck, but the German composer, seeing him as a rival, rejected the tribute.
Performed at the Paris Opéra for almost twenty years, Phèdre was published in 2020 as a CD-book by Bru Zane Label.

Dates

Sat 25 January 2025
19.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Tue 28 January 2025
20.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Sun 16 February 2025
16.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Thu 27 February 2025
20.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Sat 8 March 2025
19.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Fri 14 March 2025
19.30
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Sun 23 March 2025
18.30
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
Thu 17 April 2025
20.00
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe

Performers

BADISCHE STAATSKAPELLE
BADISCHER STAATSOPERNCHOR
Attilio Cremonesi conductor

Christoph von Bernuth stage director
Oliver Helf set designer
Karine Van Hercke costume designer
Stephanie Twiehaus dramaturge

Phèdre Ann-Beth Solvang
Hippolyte Krzysztof Lachman
Thésée Armin Kolaczyk or Kihun Yoon
Oenone Martha Eason or Anastasiya Taratorkina
Le Grand Prêtre Oğulcan Yılmaz

Programme

Staged version
Production
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Score published by the
Palazzetto Bru Zane
Bru Zane Mediabase
Digital resources for French Romantic music
Phèdre - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne