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FULL FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Mikael Karlsson) Brussels 2024 Susan Bullock, Thomas Hampson, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Loa Falkman
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: FANNY AND ALEXANDER
- Composer: Karlsson Mikael
- Libretto: Royce Vavrek, based on the film by Ingmar Bergman Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium
- Recorded: December 13, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Susan Bullock, Peter Tantsits, Sasha Cooke, Sarah Dewez, Jay Weiner, Thomas Hampson, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Loa Falkman, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Alexander Sprague, Justin Hopkins, Polly Leech, Gavan Ring, Margaux De Valensart, Marion Bauwens, Blandine Coulon
- Conductor: ARIANE MATIAKH
- Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie
- Chorus: Membre des Chœurs d'Enfants et de Jeunes de la Monnaie
- Stage Director: IVO VAN HOVE
- Stage Designer: JAN VERSWEYVELD
- Costume Designer: AN D’HUYS
- Lighting Designer: JAN VERSWEYVELD
Information about the Recording
- Published by: medici.tv, mezzo tv
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, frsubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Program notes
Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical 1982 masterpiece Fanny and Alexander, widely considered to be among the greatest films ever made, gets a 21st-century makeover for the opera stage by “one of today’s greatest avant-gardists in opera” (OPUS), Mikael Karlsson, with an all-star cast including American baritone Thomas Hampson and Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter! Following the widespread success of their hit 2023 adaptation of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, Karlsson and librettist Royce Vavrek transform one of the grandest of all films into an equally grand opera with stage director Ivo Van Hove, a connoisseur of Bergman’s work, and conductor Ariane Matiakh, who creates magic with the superb house orchestra, surround-sound electronics, and sixteen incredible vocalists.
The opera opens on a joyous Christmas celebration with siblings Fanny (Sarah Dewez) and Alexander (Jay Weiner) Ekdahl, whose parents Emilie (Sasha Cooke) and Oscar (Peter Tantsits) run the local theatre. All too soon, though, these scenes of mirth will give way to sorrow: when Oscar dies unexpectedly, Emilie remarries the cruel and intransigent bishop Edvard Vergerus (Thomas Hampson), whose authoritarian ways lead Alexander to take refuge in a fantasy world of his own making…
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