Il Palazzo Incantato

Il Palazzo incantato, Azione in musica (action in music)
In three acts with the prologue

MUSIC Luigi Rossi
LIBRETTO Giulio Rospigliosi (future Pope Clement IX) after Orlando furioso from Ariosto

CREATED at the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane Palazzo Barberini, Rome, February 22, 1642

SHOW IN ITALIAN  WITH FRENCH OVERTITLES

While Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, which was of capital historic importance in the development of opera in 17th century France, has been the object of a few stage productions, this is not the case for his first — and only other — lyric work, Il Palazzo incantato, premiered in Rome in February 1642. This production brought to Dijon by Leonardo García Alarcón and Fabrice Murgia is thus as precious a treat as the recent Finta Pazza. A massive work — 16 soloists, double and triple choirs of 6 and 12 voices, numerous ballets, and seven hours of performance for the premiere ! —  Il Palazzo marks the last flamboyance of opera as practiced in Rome before the Eternal City turned its back for a long, dry spell. The libretto, written by Cardinal Rospigliosi, later to become Pope Clement IX, was the first adaptation of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, a masterpiece of Italian poetry with a long lyric history. In an enchanted palace-labyrinth where the sorcerer Atlantes imprisons and turns to madness the very best of chivalry and gallantry, we also find preserved the most inventive and intriguing blossoming of lamenti, arias and ensembles arising from an ephemeral Roman spring. With singers, actors, acrobats and dancers, Fabrice Murgia turns this masterpiece into a festive celebration of total art. 

NEW PRODUCTION OF THE DIJON OPERA

ENSEMBLE & ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA
DIJON OPERA CHOIR
CHAMBER OF NAMUR CHAMBER
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Leonardo García Alarcón
MUSICAL DIRECTION ASSISTANTS Rodrigo Calveyra et Fabián Schofrin
VOCAL COACH Jacopo Raffaele
CHOIR CHIEF Anass Ismat

STAGING Fabrice Murgia
STAGE SETS Vincent Lemaire
COSTUMES Clara Peluffo Valentini
VIDEO Giacinto Caponio
LIGHTING Emily Brassier | Giacinto Capanio
ASSISTANAT À LA MISE EN SCÈNE Filippo Ferraresi 

ORLANDO Victor Sicard
ANGELICA Arianna Vendittelli
RUGGIERO Fabio Trümpy 
BRADAMANTE | LA PEINTURE Deanna Breiwick 
ATLANTE Mark Milhofer
OLYMPIA | LA MUSIQUE Lucía Martín-Cartón 
MARFISA | LA MAGIE | DORALICE Mariana Flores
GIGANTE | SACRIPANTE | GRADASSO Grigory Soloviov 
PRASILDO | LE NAIN Kacper Szelążek
ALCESTE André Lacerda 
FERRAU | ASTOLFO Valerio Contaldo
FIORDILIGI | LA POÉSIE Gwendoline Blondeel
MANDRICARDO Alexander Miminoshvili

CADREURS Johann Michalzcak & David Vong
COMEDIANS Pascal Carbon, Adrien Philippon, Priscilla Bescond, Sarah Mussard, Emeline Losange, Juliette Tardif & Raphaël Mena

COSTUMES Opéra national de Lorraine
SETS Dijon Opéra & Eclectik Scéno (for one part of the set)

SCORE EDITS Cappella Mediterranea / Transcription Pascal Duc Révisions & édition pratique : Leonardo García Alarcón
SUBTITLES Richard Neel

After 6 weeks rehearsing, Leonardo García Alarcón (Musical director), Fabrice Murgia (Staging), artists and technique teams succeeded in creating this opera. Performances could not be held in the Auditorium, so we were pleased to present it online instead.

Opéra de Dijon, Opéra national de Lorraine, Théâtre de Caen, Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles

WITH PATRONAGE FROM the Banque Populaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

 In partnership with n partenariat avec the Chamber Choir of Namur