FULL ERCOLE AMANTE (Antonia Bembo) Paris 2026 Andreas Wolf, Julie Fuchs, Ana Vieira Leite, Deepa Johnny, Marcel Beekman, Sandrine Piau

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Ercole Amante  
• Composer: Bembo Antonia   
• Libretto: Francesco Buti    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Opéra Bastille, Opera de Paris, France  
• Recorded: June 5, 2026
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Andreas Wolf, Julie Fuchs, Ana Vieira Leite, Deepa Johnny, Marcel Beekman, Alasdair Kent, Sandrine Piau, Théo Imart, Teona Todua, Alex Rosen, Danaé Monnié, Giulia Fichu-Sampieri, Dina Husseini, Samuel Desguin
• Conductor: Leonardo García-Alarcón  
• Orchestra: Orchestre Cappella Mediterranea  
• Chorus: Chœur de chambre de Namur  
• Chorus Master: Thibaut Lenaerts  
• Choreographer: Maud Le Pladec  
• Stage Director: Netia Jones  
• Stage Designer: Netia Jones  
• Costume Designer: Netia Jones  
• Lighting Designer: Ellen Ruge  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: ARTE  
• TV Director: François Roussillon  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs, frsubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Ercole amante (Hercules in Love) is an 18th-century Italian-language opera in five acts. It was composed in France in 1707 by Antonia Bembo with a libretto by Francesco Buti. Bembo reused Buti’s libretto from Francesco Cavalli’s 1662 opera of the same name. The libretto is based on stories of Hercules from Sophocles’s Women of Trachis, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pseudo-Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca, and Seneca’s Hercules Oetaeus.
  The opera was first performed in Stuttgart in 2023 in a concert version. Ars Minerva plans to give the first staged performance in San Francisco in November 2025. The Paris Opera is scheduled to perform Ercole in May 2026.

  Synopsis
  Setting: Mythological ancient Greece

  Act I
  Ercole (Hercules) has defeated the Kingdom of Oechalia and killed its ruler, Eutyro. Ercole loves Eutyro’s daughter Iole, but she is betrothed to Ercole’s son Hyllo. Venere (Venus), goddess of love, arrives with the Graces and decides to help Ercole win Iole by casting a spell on her. Hearing of Venere’s work, the goddess Giunone (Juno) decides to thwart Venere and Ercole.

  Act II
  The lovers Hyllo and Iole learn of Ercole’s interest in her. Giunone sings that she will stop Venere. Pasithea, one of the Graces, goes to the cave of Sleep to seek his help in Venere’s plans.

  Act III
  Ercole is in a deep slumber. Iole moves to kill Ercole, seeking to avenge her father. Ercole is awakened by the god Mercurio (Mercury). Ercole believes Hyllo was trying to kill him and wants his son dead. Dejanira, Ercole’s wife, pleads for their son. Iole promises she will accept Ercole if he will spare Hyllo. Ercole exiles his wife and orders Hyllo confined to a tower overlooking the ocean.

  Act IV
  Hyllo jumps from his tower into the sea intending suicide. But Giunone calls upon Nettuno (Neptune), god of the sea, to save Hyllo. Iole and Dejanira do not know of the gods’ intervention and believe Hyllo dead. They go to the grave of Iole’s father. Eutyro’s ghost appears, warning Iole she should not marry Ercole. Venere continues her schemes by creating an enchanted chair. When Iole sits in it, she feels affection for Ercole.

  Act V
  In Hades, Eutyro and the other victims of Ercole sing. Licco, a servant of Dejanira, plots to disrupt the wedding. At Licco’s behest, Iole offers Ercole a shirt soaked in the blood of the centaur Nessus, who Ercole had killed. Ercole is poisoned by the shirt and dies. Giunone appears, triumphant, with Hyllo. He reunites with Iole. Ercole ascends to Heaven and marries Beauty.

  Quoted from Wikipedia

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