Laurent Pelly's expression of Berlioz's adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique becomes ''an elegant treatise on love and music".
Beatrice and Benedict
Glyndebourne
opera
Body and Soul
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Under a flickering ceiling lamp, Crystal Pite binds spoken instruction to movement as two men begin a sequence already coming apart.
A voice calls out: forehead, chin, chest. They follow. The words repeat and shift, confrontation easing into a tender duet. Then sixty dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet surge through Chopin’s Preludes. The text returns in a darker space. A woman kneels beside a body that no longer answers. The same words now carry something else.
Exploring the theme of mourning and bereavement, Crystal Pite presents the conflicting urges and impulses that challenge the unity of each of us.
Cast & Crew
(Choreographer), Léonore Baulac, Ludmila Pagliero, Hugo Marchand, (Composer), (Composer), (Composer), (Director)