Bovary

We know this woman, we know her story: to fill the void of her existence, Emma Bovary seeks attention and lovers. A first, all-consuming but illusory love affair is the start of a chronicle marked by repressed desires, fleeting moments of feverish happiness and lies meant to cover up reality – until they no longer can.

With Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert revolutionized literature in 1856. The story of the adulterous doctor’s wife taking her own life sent such a shock wave through France that it resulted in a court case. Driven by their shared love of this nineteenth-century cult novel, composer Harold Noben and librettist Michael De Cock now join their forces for a contemporary opera adaptation.

CAST

Opéra en un acte
Livret de Michael De Cock
d’après le roman Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert
Musique de Harold Noben

World Premiere
Commissioned by La Monnaie

Conductor DEBORA WALDMAN
Director CARME PORTACELI
Assistant-director RICARD SOLER MALLOL

Set & Costume Designer MARIE SZERSNOVICZ
Choreographer FERRAN CARVAJAL
Dramaturge MARIE MERGEAY
Light Design DIMITRY STUYVEN
Chorus Master JORI KLOMP

Emma Bovary ANA NAQE
Charles Bovary OLEG VOLKOV
Berthe BLANDINE COULON°

° MM Laureate

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Coproduction: DE MUNT / LA MONNAIE, KVS, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL WALLONIE-BRUXELLES & TEATRE NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA