Ariane à Naxos
Richard Strauss
This version premiered on 14 May 2013 at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet.
In 2013, the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet entrusted Le Balcon with a residency that began that season with Ariadne auf Naxos and continued in 2013-2014 with Paroles et Musique by Samuel Beckett set to music by Morton Feldman, Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, and concluded with Peter Eötvös' opera Le Balcon.
"The Athénée has chosen to support the original artistic initiative of the Ensemble Le Balcon, which demonstrates a strong desire to change the conditions of listening to a concert through the use of sound reinforcement techniques for the instruments. The sensory experience is heightened tenfold, allowing listeners and spectators to discover a work from an original angle or to rediscover aspects of a work. Le Balcon also explores a wide variety of repertoires, from contemporary music to classical and opera. It is this constant musical research that the Athénée wishes to encourage by offering Le Balcon working conditions conducive to creativity."
Le Balcon
Musical direction – Maxime Pascal
Stage direction – Benjamin Lazar assisted by Anne Derex and Corinne Paccioni
Vocal coach – Alphonse Cemin
Set design – Adeline Caron assisted by Baptiste Joxe
Lighting – Christophe Naillet assisted by Damien Valade
Sound – Florent Derex
Costumes – Alain Blanchot assisted by Pascale Lavandier
with
Zerbinette – Julie Fuchs
The Composer – Anna Destrael
Ariane – Léa Trommenschlager
Bacchus – Marc Haffner
A Music Master – Thill Mantero
A Ballet Master and Scaramouche – Damien Bigourdan
A Wigmaker and Harlequin – Vladimir Kapshuk
A Lackey and Truffaldin – Virgile Ancely
An Officer and Brighella – Cyrille Dubois
Naiad – Norma Nahoun
Echo – Élise Chauvin
Dryad – Camille Merckx
Flute – Claire Luquiens, Julie Brunet-Jailly
Oboe – Ye-Chang Jung, Guillaume Gerbaud
Clarinet – Iris Zerdoud, Ghislain Roffat
Bassoon – Julien Abbes, Vivian Angelloz
Horn – Maxime Tomba, Benjamin Locher
Trumpet – Henri Deléger
Trombone – Mathieu Adam
Violin – You-Jung Han, Valentin Broucke, Hagni Gwon, Irène Martin, Byinta Gorjaeva, Anne-Claire Gorenstein
Viola – Andrei Malakhov, Julien Poirier, Martin Rodriguez, Sarah Niblack
Cello – Louis Rodde, Clotilde Lacroix, Myrtille Hetzel, Caroline Sypniewski
Double bass – Simon Guidicelli, Juliette Herbet
Piano – Alphonse Cemin
Harp – Clara Izambert, Maureen Thiébaut, Annabelle Jarre
Harmonium – Sarah Kim
Celesta – Gwendal Giguelay
Timpani – Pierre Michel
Percussion – François-Xavier Plancqueel, Akino Kamiya
Production: Le Balcon, Attie Studios
with the support of the Orange Foundation
with the support of Mr. Pierre Bergé
co-production: Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet
Le Balcon would like to warmly thank its partners: Fondation Singer-Polignac, SACEM, Buffet-Crampon, Orgue Mustel de 1929 provided by Pascal Auffret and l’Harmonium Français, Jean-Étienne Ottenhof, Régie Piano, Steingraeber, Radio France, ARIAM, Opéra-Comique, Auditorium du Louvre.
Le Balcon would like to personally thank the following individuals for their support: Katia and Gérard Abbes, Florence Alin, Michel Barrotteaux, Agnès and Marc Cemin, Florence Cestac, Madeleine Charrier, Jacques and Annie David, Jean-Michel Derex, Rémi Durupt, Jacqueline Gauthier, Zita Gauthier, Roseline Granet, Valérie Joxe, Françoise Lamotte, Hervé Lavandier, Jean-Louis Nathan, Danièle Nizery, Didier Pascal, Élisabeth Petit, Viviane Prat-Garnier, Maurice Prost, Marianne Tixier.
