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opera Sacrati's La Finta Pazza Jean-Yves Ruf (stage director), Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor) — With Mariana Flores (Deidamia), Filippo Mineccia (Achille), Gabriel Jublin (Ulisse), Valerio Contaldo (Diomede) …

Jean-Yves Ruf (stage director), Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor) — With Mariana Flores (Deidamia), Filippo Mineccia (Achille), Gabriel Jublin (Ulisse), Valerio Contaldo (Diomede) …

Sacrati's La Finta Pazza Jean-Yves Ruf (stage director), Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor) — With Mariana Flores (Deidamia), Filippo Mineccia (Achille), Gabriel Jublin (Ulisse), Valerio Contaldo (Diomede) …

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The first opera ever performed in France comes back to the French stage nearly four centuries later: Francesco Sacrati’s La finta pazza lights up the magnificent Royal Chapel of Versailles!

Though the opera was first performed in Venice in 1641, its history in France dates to 1645, when Cardinal Mazarin invited an Italian troupe to entertain the seven-year-old Louis XIV. It met with considerable immediate success, thanks in part to its spectacular ballet sequences involving parrots, ostriches, and bears—and then was nearly lost to history. Three centuries later in 1983, the discovery of a sole surviving score piqued public interest with its musical freshness and similarities to Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, as well as the first “mad scene” ever sung in a theater.

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Cast

  • Jean-Yves Ruf | Stage director
  • Laure Pichat | Set designer
  • Claudia Jenatsch | Costumes
  • Christian Dubet | Lighting
  • Cécile Kretschmar | Wig and Makeup Designer
  • Anaïs de Courson | Assistant stage director
  • Fanny Gamet | Associate set designer
  • Ariel Rychter | Vocal coach
  • Mónica Pustilnik | Musical assistant
  • Fabián Schofrin | Artistic assistant
  • Mariana Flores | Deidamia
  • Filippo Mineccia | Achille
  • Gabriel Jublin | Ulisse
  • Valerio Contaldo | Diomede
  • Alejandro Meerapfel
  • Norma Nahoun | Minerva, La Fama
  • Kacper Szelążek | Eunuco
  • Marcel Beekman | Nodrice
  • Salvo Vitale | Capitano
  • Julie Roset | Aurora, Giunone
  • Alexander Miminoshvili | Vulcano, Giove
  • Fiona McGown | Tetide, Vittoria
  • Ruben Ruf | Pirro
  • Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
  • Leonardo García Alarcón | Conductor

Program

  • Francesco Sacrati, La Finta Pazza

Details

  • Venue: The Palace of Versailles' Royal Chapel (Versailles, France)
  • Production date: 2022
  • Duration: 2 h 48 min
  • Production: © A co-production Château de Versailles Spectacles / Ozango
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