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La Monnaie / De Munt LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Opera

Bastarda
... till death do us part

Presentation
THe past cannot be cured— Elizabeth I Tudor

Betrayal knows many guises, Elizabeth’s punishment only one. As ‘favourites’ come and go, one star remains in her place in the political firmament: that of Good Queen Bess, once ‘The Fairy Queen’... Her decline has begun, but until the end she remains the epicentre of the world. And that world is a stage.

In this second part of Bastarda, La Monnaie revives the heyday and the demise of Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603). Prepare for the musical highlights of Gaetano Donizetti's Tudor tetralogy, breathtaking costumes and historically informed props, dance and video, grand entrances and tragic exits. A unique total spectacle, which our workshops have been working on for years.

This performance begins with a summary of the preceding events and you can enjoy it separately from Bastarda Part 1 without any problem.

Dates & tickets

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Location

La Monnaie

Prices

Dynamic ticket prices
Starting from € 12 to € 165
-30 years old: € 10 / € 50

Buy your tickets for both Bastarda I and Bastarda II in one and the same order and get a 20% discount.

Language

Sung in Italian
Surtitles in French and in Dutch

Presentation

Introductory talks 45' before the start of the performance (NL/FR)

Running time

±3h00
1h05' + intermission 25' + 1h30'

Streaming

Broadcast on Musiq3 and Klara
17.5.2022
Brodcast on Arte
29.05

Based on the four Tudor operas of Gaetano Donizetti
Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829)
Anna Bolena (1830)
Maria Stuarda (1834)

Roberto Devereux (1837)

Gallery

Gallery

Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

Conductor & Musical arrangementsFRANCESCO LANZILLOTTA Artistic concept, Script & DirectionOLIVIER FREDJ Adaptation & DialogueYANN APPERRY & OLIVIER FREDJ

Set design & LightingURS SCHÖNEBAUM CostumesPETRA REINHARDT VideoSARAH DERENDINGER ChoreographyAVSHALOM POLLAK Artistic collaborationCECILIA LIGORIO DramaturgyMARIE MERGEAY Chorus masterGIULIO MAGNANINI

ElisabettaMYRTÒ PAPATANASIU
FRANCESCA SASSU (23.3, 2.4)
Anna BolenaSALOME JICIA LeicesterENEA SCALA EnricoLUCA TITTOTO Giovanna Seymour & SaraRAFFAELLA LUPINACCI Amy RobsartVALENTINA MASTRANGELO Maria StuardaLENNEKE RUITEN Roberto DevereuxSERGEY ROMANOVSKY NottinghamBRUNO TADDIA
SmetonDAVID HANSEN CecilGAVAN RING Elisabetta childNEHIR HASRET (21, 23.03 & 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 13.04),
HADLEY DEAN RANDERSON (25, 28, 30.03 & 8, 15, 16.04)

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
La Monnaie Choral Academy, led by Benoît Giaux

ProductionLA MONNAIE With support fromNATIONAL LOTTERY

 

In co-production with Shelter Prod and Prospero MM Productions, with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter