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Boesmans - Julie | Bel Air BAC026

Boesmans - Julie

Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC026

Barcode: 3760115300262

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 3rd September 2007

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Contents

Artists

Malena Ernman
Gary Magee
Kerstin Avemo
Chamber Orchestra of La Monnaie

Conductor

Kazushi Ono

Works

Boesmans, Philippe

Julie

Artists

Malena Ernman
Gary Magee
Kerstin Avemo
Chamber Orchestra of La Monnaie

Conductor

Kazushi Ono

About

Boesmans and his librettist Luc Bondy have based their intimate chamber opera on Miss Julie, Strindberg's classic 1888 drama of destructive passion between mistress and servant. Julie is a complex interplay of sex and class, with the haunting power of the past a catalyst to tragedy. On Midsummer's Night, a time for wild celebration, Julie works on Jean to draw him away from his fiancée Christine. But the events on the shortest night of the year throw into relief the destructive ambitions of them both: 'It is dangerous to play with fire…'.
Although Boesmans is a major figure in mainland Europe - his four operas have an impressively successful track record across the Channel - he is virtually unknown on the British operatic stage. His music is highly individual: dense and precise, rich and colourful, elegant, and in this piece, he makes a chamber ensemble of eighteen players sound positively symphonic.
This Bel Air DVD is taken from the co-production between La Monnaie in Brussels, where it successfully premièred in March 2005 and where Boesmans has been composer in Residence for nearly twenty years, and the Festival at Aix en Provence.
Cast:
Malena Ernman (Julie)
Gary Magee (Jean)
Kerstin Avemo (Kristin)

Directed by Luc Bondy
Sets by Richard Peduzzi
Costumes by Rudy Sabounghi

Aix-en Provence 2005

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