Krzysztof Warlikowski takes up another ancient myth on the French stage, having directed Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris at the Opéra de Paris in recents seasons. His contemporary reading of the Medea myth and of Cherubini’s opera seeks realism, rewriting spoken dialogues that forms part of the opera-comique form and delivering a new Medea, both magnified and distorted. In Medea and Jason, a "demonic" couple par excellence, violence and beauty create a drama where original carnal drives are convened.
As a part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of Théatre des Champs Élysees in Paris, the storied theatre hosts a Trilogy of Medea, with productions of operas by Charpentier, Dusapin and Cherubini.
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