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
Malandain Ballet: La Chambre d'Amour
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On the Basque coast, two lovers were swallowed by the tide at the height of their happiness. Their legend inspired a ballet, and twenty-five years after its premiere, Thierry Malandain returns it to the stage.
Dancers surge and collapse across seven stark tableaux. Cain lifts a silver stone above Abel. Orpheus guides Eurydice toward a golden threshold, her eyes closed. Couples advance, bound by touch alone. Love is rehearsed again and again, as if repetition might outwit fate.
The original sets and costumes were lost to flood; Peio Çabelette’s score survives. What Malandain rebuilds is barer, more exposed: a choreographic voice entrusted to performers who make each returning tide feel newly perilous.
Cast & Crew
(Choreographer), Malandain Ballet Biarritz (Dance Company), (Director), Jorge Gallardo (Costume Design), François Menou (Lighting Design), (Composer)