Une mise en scène inventive et drôle.... Cette Olimpiade rafle tous les prix et offre un divertissement de très grande qualité.
L'Olimpiade, Vivaldi
Staging Emmanuel Daumas
Emmanuel Daumas' staging
Emmanuel Daumas has created a baroque and exuberant staging in which athletic performance and dance are at the heart of the work. The curtain opens on a gymnasium set where athletes in wrestling gear are training. This is followed by eclectic worlds inspired by 18th-century Italian painting, Fellini's cinema and the Commedia dell'arte. The director treats each scene like a living tableau, infusing it with humour and poetry.
I would like the show to be as sensual as Tiepolo's languid bodies and as impressive as a twirling gymnast. Composite, baroque and sacred. [...] Admire the athletes and singers and hear the wild and sublime music of Vivaldi. Emmanuel Daumas
Set design
Alban Van Ho's set design initially depicts a gymnasium with landing mats and pommel horses, then gives way in the second and third acts to a more baroque and antique setting, evoking a Greek temple in ruins abandoned after the games. The colourful costumes designed by Marie La Rocca and the wigs and masks by Cécile Kretschmar help to define the characters: Licida is dressed in wrestling gear or princely costume, the bodybuilder Megacles leaves no doubt about his victory, and the tyrannical King Cleisthenes is decked out in a butcher's apron... Five dancers and an acrobat, choreographed by Raphaëlle Delaunay, accompany the singers ‘so that the body and movement are as concrete and present as the voice and music,’ explains Emmanuel Daumas.
Dans la presse
Dynamique, vitaminée et réjouissante [...] Emmanuel Daumas orchestre un savant désordre emoustillé par la chorégraphie ironique de Raphaëlle Delaunay
L’Olimpiade de Vivaldi ravit par son intelligente drôlerie. le Théâtre des Champs-Elysées propose un spectacle débordant d’ingéniosité et de fantaisie.
Epoustouflant mariage de la musique et du sport. La mise en scène renversante d’Emmanuel Daumas conjugue l’athlétisme, la break-dance et l’opéra : une réussite totale
Documentation disponible
- Programme : voir le pdf
- Interview of Emmanuel Daumas
- Vidéos : trailer, interviews, podcast
(c) photos : Vincent Pontet
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Artistic team
Soloists, choir, extras