FULL L’Uomo Femina (Baldassare Galuppi) Rouen 2025 Eva Zaïcik, Lucile Richardot, Victoire Bunel

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: L'Uomo Femina  
• Composer: Galuppi Baldassare   
• Libretto: Pietro Chiari    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Théâtre des Arts, Rouen, France, Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen  
• Recorded: December 18 & 19, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Eva Zaïcik, Lucile Richardot, Victoire Bunel, Victor Sicard, François Rougier, Anas Seguin
• Conductor: Vincent Dumestre  
• Orchestra: Le Poème Harmonique  
• Stage Director: Agnès Jaoui   
• Stage Designer: Alban Ho Van  
• Costume Designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque  
• Lighting Designer: Dominique Bruguière  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: ARTE  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, frsubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  PROGRAM LEAFLET

  Born on the island of Burano in 1706, Baldassare Galuppi
  was a prolific composer who enjoyed a distinguished career
  in sacred music while also contributing to the development of
  the still-nascent genre of opera (he composed over
  a hundred operas, both comic and tragic).
  Nicknamed “Il Buranello,” he was celebrated throughout Europe,
  from Italy to Russia, where he was appointed court composer
  in Saint Petersburg in 1765 by Empress Catherine II.
  His opera Il re pastore was also performed in Venice
  to honor the future monarch, Joseph II.
  The premiere of L’Uomo femina in 1762 was quite successful
  and was revived six years later at the Teatro della Cava
  in Pavia. Although the libretto was published anonymously, it is highly
  probable that the author was Pietro Chiari, Goldoni’s rival.

  This opera thus revisits the theme of Mondo alla roversa
  of 1750 (libretto by Goldoni, music by Galuppi), whose plot
  also unfolds on an island ruled by women.

  The work then fell into oblivion, and the score
  was only rediscovered in 2006 at the Ajuda Palace Library
  in Lisbon, in perfect condition except for
  three missing arias. Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème
  Harmonique took up the challenge of reviving this score
  three centuries later, remaining faithful to a relatively small orchestra,
  similar to the one Galuppi used
  at the Teatro San Moisè in 1762, and which reflects the sound
  of Venice at the time: violins, violetta, cellos,
  harpsichord, lute, mandolin, horns, oboes. The vocal
  parts also follow the recommendations made
  by Galuppi himself. Agnès Jaoui’s staging
  playfully questions the absolute legitimacy of a sovereign
  and delights in imagining a world where women have authority
  over everything, thus remaining true to the tone of this joyful drama

  Quoted from Opera Orchestre Normandie Rouen

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