Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason
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Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason
Opéra Royal de Versailles 13 and 15 December at 20h
Ballets d’action by Jean-George Noverre
Music by Jean-Joseph Rodolphe, version 1775
Compagnie L’Éventail
Marie-Geneviève Massé, choreography
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, music direction
Vincent Tavernier, stage direction
Antoine Fontaine, set design
Jean-Paul Gousset, historic counselor
Olivier Bériot, costume design
Hervé Gary, light design
Sabine Novel - Armide
Noah Hellwig - Renaud
Bruno Benne - Ubalde
Olivier Collin - Le chevalier danois
Sarah Berreby - Médée
Adrian Navarro - Jason
Émilie Bregougnon - Créuse
Daniel Housset - Créon
Romain Arreghini, Anne-Sophie Berring, Marie Blaise, Bérengère Bodénan, Irène Ginger, Adeline Lerme, Volodia Lesluin, Karin Modigh
The invention of action ballet, owing to the genius of French choreographer Noverre, consecrates the total emancipation of dance - the movement is now just as powerful as the spoken word. Rivalling with Gluck, Noverre imagined ballets on the most ambitious subjects. While he maintained the wonderful episodes, sparkling costumes and impressive machinery effects of the baroque style, he was above all trying to render emotions in all their subtlety, from the most tender love to the most murderous rage, an early announcement of the romanticism to come.
