Miguela

Miguela

Nouvel Opéra Métropolitain

June 14, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

Montréal

Duration: 2 h 45 min

with intermission

Salle Claude-Champagne

220 Vincent D’Indy Ave.

Outremont

One of the first three productions presented by the Nouvel Opéra Métropolitain, this grand French opera tells the story of a Spanish marquise named Miguela who falls in love with a French colonel during the Spanish War of Independence. Against a backdrop of escalating patriotic and religious tensions, our heroine finds herself navigating troubled waters in an attempt to reconcile love and duty, betrayal and loyalty, in a story filled with passion, courage, and moral dilemmas. Often comic, but always resolutely romantic, Miguela invites you to discover the major themes of late 19th century action-opera: betrayal, death, and the portrayal of strong female characters.

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World premiere

Miguela (1891)

Expanded concert version for choir, soloists and orchestra

 

Music: Théodore Dubois

Libretto: Jules Barbier

Editor: Vincent Boyer

Conductor: Benjamin Levy

Orchestre du Festival Classica

Choir: Ensemble ArtChoral

Sets: Lumifest en cavale, Dominique Arcand

Matthieu Thoër, digital artist

Illustrations: Maxime Bigras

Rehearsal pianist: Michel-Alexandre Broekaert

Stage manager: Isabeau Proulx Lemire

Cast

 

French men

MARTIGNY (Officer): Emmanuel Hasler (tenor)

LOWITZ (Major): Geoffroy Salvas (baritone)

BLAISOT: Guillaume Andrieux (baritone)

LARIVIÈRE: Mathieu Abel (tenor) 

 

Spanish men

DIAZ HERNANDEZ (Miguela’s godfather): Hugo Laporte (baritone)

FRAY DOMINGO: Dion Mazerolle (baritone)

FRAY JUANITO: Thomas Vinals (tenor) 

ESTEBAN: Pierre-Étienne Bergeron (bass)

MUNEZ: Isabeau Proulx Lemire (tenor)

SERGEANT: Julien Brody (tenor)

 

Spanish women

MIGUELA (Marquise de Mendoza): Myriam Leblanc (soprano)

INÉSILLE (Duchess): Pauline Sabatier (mezzo-soprano)

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