Handel's Serse : Clarac & Deloeuil (stage directors), David Bates (conductor) — With Jake Arditti (Serse), Jakub Józef Orliński (Arsamene), Mari Eriksmoen (Romilda)... / Stéphane Vérité, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Vérité, Stéphane, film director.

Martin, Rick, performer.

Deloeuil, Olivier-Daniel, performer.

Bourrousse, Luc, performer.

Clarac, Jean-Philippe, performer.

Roques, Julien, performer.

Oxymore.

Opéra de Rouen Normandie.

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 37 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Oxymore : Opéra de Rouen Normandie, 2023.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

Formed by directors Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil, the Clarac-Deloeuil > Le Lab collective reinvents one of Handel’s lesser known operas, Serse, featuring the voices of Jakub Józef Orliński, Jake Arditti, and Cecilia Molinari! In this new adaptation of the 1738 opera, the capricious King of Persia, Serse (Xerxes), becomes the head of a band of young skaters, torn by the desires and challenges of adolescence. Engaged to Amastre, Serse abandons his betrothed when he catches a glimpse of Romilda. The latter is in love with Serse’s brother, Arsamene, and she tries to derail the leader of the skaters' advances while Amastre tries everything to get him back. At the same time, Serse tries to get one over on his brother, pleasing Atalante (Romilda’s sister) who is in love with Amastre. Handel’s score is filled with captivating rhythms and features no fewer than 50 arias! Light and full of life, the opera displays a group of young lovers without ever ridiculing them for their passions, carried by some of Handel’s most tender and sumptuous arias including the iconic “Ombra mai fu” where Serse, full of arrogance, declares his love for his skateboard instead of the tree of the original version. Without being, strictly speaking, an opera buffa, Serse pays homage to Venetian opera traditions by putting comedy at the heart of the drama. Discover this opera as you’ve never seen it before in this audacious staging by Clarac and Deloeuil who admit that “in skateboarding and in love, everything is a question of rhythm”!.

Contents:

Serse, HWV 40 / George Frideric Handel.

Participant:

Rick Martin ; Olivier-Daniel Deloeuil ; Luc Bourrousse ; Jean-Philippe Clarac ; Julien Roques.

Notes:

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Contains:

Container of: Handel, George Frideric. Serse, HWV 40.

OCLC:

1527797064

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