The Toulon Opera is announcing its 2021/2022 revival season with great classics from the repertoire and small forms to explore:
Mozart will thus open the Toulon lyric season in October with these two dimensions, by Don Giovanni and The small wedding.
The Spanish libertine will be embodied by Guido Loconsolo with Pablo Ruiz in Leporello, against the female trio Anaïs Constans, Marie-Ève Munger, Khatouna Gadelia (Donne Anna, Elvira and Zerlina) and the male trio Emanuele d’Aguanno, Ramaz Chikviladze, Nika Guliashvili (Don Ottavio, Commander, Masetto) under the baton of Jordan de Souza, in the staging (and lights) by Daniel Benoin (our report in Nice).
The small wedding by Figaro participatory staging by Gilles Rico, with translation and adaptation by Henri Tresbel (our reports in Rouen and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) will take the audience under the direction of Iñaki Encina Oyón with Tamara Bounazou (Suzanne) , Émilie Rose Bry (Countess), Albane Carrère (Chérubin), Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Figaro), Gilen Goicoechea (Count Almaviva) and Pierre-Antoine Chaumien (Basilio).
Just as general public as magical, Spanish Time de Ravel will come in November in the direction of James Bonas (our review in Lyon) with Florence Losseau (Concepción), Raoul Steffani (Ramiro), Étienne Duhil de Bénazé (Torquemada), Quentin Desgeorges (Gonzalve) and Christian Andreas (Don Iñigo Gomez), direction Valerio Galli.
Toulon also celebrates the end of year celebrations every season: this will be the case again and again on December 26, 29 and 31 with the tender-bitter champagne of The bat (Johann Strauss II by Jean Lacornerie whose recording we have just reported in Rennes) with the same cast (including Anne Girouard de Kaamelott as narrator / Frosch) except Prince Orlofsky entrusted to Tamara Gura.
Bohemian de Puccini will come from Scotland and Vancouver in the direction of Renaud Doucet from January 30 to February 4. Adriana González will play Mimì (as the winner of the prestigious Operalia Competition announced in an interview) with Mariam Battistelli’s Musetta. Davide Giusti, Devid Cecconi, Jean-Luc Ballestra, Nika Guliashvili and François Harismendy will be Rodolfo, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline and Benoît / Alcindoro, all under the baton of Valerio Galli.
The Var public will also be able to browse the Little Stroll in the Underworld according to Gluck (our report at the Opéra Comique) with again Marie Lenormand and Judith Fa in Orphée and Eurydice but also Violette Clapeyron (Amour).
The season will close with two other house markers, one now well established (the musicals of Broadway) and a new one (the great regional co-production). South Pacific from the legendary creative duo Rodgers & Hammerstein (composer and author of The melody of happiness) will be staged in March by the regulars of the places and the style Olivier Bénézech with Larry Blank at the head of a distribution in progress and as always the Orchestra and Choir of the Toulon Opera.
The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky directed by Olivier Py will come in May in a new stage of the Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Region Co-production (with Nice, Avignon, Marseille: our report). Jurjen Hempel will direct Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Countess), Elena Bezgodkova (Lisa), Nona Javakhidze (governess / Macha), Anne-Marie Calloni (Prilepa), Oleg Dolgov (Hermann), Alexander Kasyanov (Count Tomski), Serban Vasile (Prince Yeleski), Artavazd Sargsyan (Tchekalinski), Nika Guliashvili (Sourine), Christophe Poncet de Solages (Master of ceremonies / Tchaplitski) and Guy Bonfiglio (Narumov).
Kévin Amiel and Vincent Le Texier will also perform Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov in concert version with the Concerto pour piano n ° 27 by Mozart (soloist Paul Lewis) conducted by Pierre Bleuse. Christiane Karg will sing Fairy Tales (Scheherazade by Ravel) with the Toulon Opera Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gábor Káli (for The Distant Princess by Nikolai Tcherepnine, the follow-up The Sleeping Beauty, and you Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky).
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