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BOVARY (Harold Noben) Brussels 2025 Ana Naqe, Oleg Volkov, Blandine Coulon
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: BOVARY
- Composer: Noben Harold
- Libretto: Michael De Cock based on the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
- Recorded: April 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Ana Naqe, Oleg Volkov, Blandine Coulon
- Conductor: Debora Waldman
- Orchestra: La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
- Chorus: La Monnaie Chorus
- Chorus Master: JORI KLOMP
- Choreographer: FERRAN CARVAJAL
- Stage Director: CARME PORTACELI
- Stage Designer: MARIE SZERSNOVICZ
- Costume Designer: MARIE SZERSNOVICZ
- Lighting Designer: DIMITRY STUYVEN
Information about the Recording
- Published by: La Monnaie
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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. To this day, Emma Bovary continues to fascinate and we sympathize with her inevitable downfall. Perhaps there lurks in each of us the feeling ‘Madame Bovary, c’est moi.’ a