La Caravane du Caire

ANDRÉ GRÉTRY (1741-1813)
LA CARAVANE DU CAIRE

Hélène Guilmette · Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin · Marie Perbost ·Pierre Derhet · Enguerrand de Hys · Robert Gleadow · Lili Aymonino ·
Chantal Santon Jeffery · Lucie Edel · Benoît Descamps · Samuel Guibal.

Le Concert Spirituel
Ballet de l’Opéra Royal
Hervé Niquet, conductor

Marshall Pynkoski, director
Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, choreography
Antoine Fontaine, stage sets
Camille Assaf, costumes
Hervé Gary, lights

La Caravane du Caire became the greatest success of its composer, André Grétry, as soon as it premiered in 1783.

This flamboyant opéra-ballet takes us to a fantasised Orient, where colourful characters meet: an ambitious slave trader, an idle Pasha and distraught lovers experience a thousand adventures, in a sumptuous setting, to the sound of Grétry’s superb instrumentation. In a whirlwind of precious fabrics, the Ballet de l’Opéra Royal accompanies Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel in a brilliant rendition of this late 18th-century masterpiece.

Performance recorded on June 10 and 11, 2023, at the Royal Opera of the Château de Versailles by WAHOO Productions.

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