Robinson Crusoé
Jacques Offenbach
Offenbach’s earthy poetry is served up by the duo of Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly.
Dates
Marc Minkowski | direction
Laurent Pelly | staging, costumes
Agathe Mélinand | dialogue adaptation & dramaturgy
Chantal Thomas | design
Michel Le Borgne | lights
Sahy Ratia | Robinson
Julie Fuchs | Edwige
Adèle Charvet | Vendredi
Laurent Naouri | Sir William Crusoé
Marc Mauillon | Toby
Rodolphe Briand | Jim-Cocks
Emma Fekete | Suzanne
Julie Pasturaud | Deborah
Matthieu Toulouse | Atkins
Dan Azoulay, Antoine Lafon, José-Maria Mantilla, Pascal Oumakhlouf | actors
Les Musiciens du Louvre
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NEW PREVIEW FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER 30 : 20€
Monday 1st December 7.30
Book
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Duration : 2 H 15
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Sung in French, surtitled in French/English
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Pre dress rehearsal for under -30s : Monday 1 December 2025, 7.30pm
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Performance with audio description : Sunday 14 December 2025, 5 p.m.
About
Offenbach had big dreams, and Robinson Crusoé, which was composed in the same year as La Grande duchesse de Gerolstein, was performed at the Théâtre Impérial de l’Opéra-Comique. Although the work was a respectable, if modest, success, it allowed the composer first and foremost to demonstrate the unprecedented splendour of his music, in which the sea plays a symphony while tropical birds sing to the strains of the piccolo. The press recognised its merits: “In the liveliness of this sharp yet subtle imagination, we can discern a new direction for opéra-comique which will modernize the genre”. Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly are the perfect pairing to conduct and direct this neglected score. They will be supported by a cast with all the experience required to deliver Offenbach and celebrate his joy, inspiration and poetry. Like a slightly distorting mirror reflecting a long gone era.
Nouvelle production Coproduction Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Angers-Nantes Opéra | Opéra de Rennes, en collaboration avec le Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française
In partnership with france.tv and Le Figaro
Opera broadcast by France Musique on 10 January at 8 p.m. on the programme Samedi à l'opéra presented by Judith Chaine. Then available for streaming on the France Musique website and the Radio France app
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