FULL 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: yessubs, frsubs, othersubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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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