Brodeck
Daan Janssens
Brodeck, an opera in two acts
Premiered on 9 February 2024 in Antwerp, at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Libretto by Daan Janssens and Fabrice Murgia, based on Philippe Claudel’s LeRapport de Brodeck
Music by Daan Janssens
The Stranger and the Shadows
In a village marked by war, Brodeck is ordered to write an account of a murder that everyone would rather forget as quickly as possible. As he pieces together the events, he finds himself drawn back to the figure of the Anderer, a mysterious outsider whose arrival shattered the fragile balance of an entire community.Based on Philippe Claudel’s novel, the opera by Daan Janssens explores less a criminal mystery than a collective landscape of fear, shame and wounded memory. In Fabrice Murgia’s production, the story unfolds in fragments, through exposed faces, sudden bursts of imagery and echoes of the past. The village becomes at once a place of judgment, a theatre of memory and a space haunted by all that refuses to disappear. What unfolds here is not simply a crime, but a human community confronted with the impossibility of escaping what it would rather leave unspoken.
Vous venez sans doute vous aussi prendre la mesure du monde ?
“No doubt you too have come to take the measure of the world?”
(Le Rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel)
Production
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Co-production
Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
In collaboration with LOD muziektheater
Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine Orchestra and Chorus
The Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine’s travelling community choir and the Children’s Choir of the Conservatoire régional du Grand Nancy
Conductor
Sora Elisabeth Lee
Chorus Master
Virginie Déjos
Director
Fabrice Murgia
Set Design
Vincent Lemaire
Costumes
Clara Peluffo Valentini
Lighting
Emily Brassier
Video
Giacinto Caponio
Art
Esther Glück
Brodeck
Michael Mofidian
Emélia
Melody Louledjian
Göbbler, Peiper
Valentin Thill
Fédorine
Marie-Juliette Ghazarian
Schloss
Lionel Peintre
Orschwir
Werner Van Mechelen
Büller, Ulli
Louis Morvan
Anderer
Thierry Hellin
Diodème
n.n
Poupchette
n.n
Exploring further
Le Rapport de Brodeck (Manu Larcenet, 2016): A black-and-white adaptation of great visual power. This graphic novel is one of the key visual references that shaped the opera’s creation.
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009): A village, silences, a pervasive violence that gradually permeates the entire community. A film that captures with great accuracy what Brodeck tell us about fear, the group and buried evil.
Talk in partnership with Le Livre sur la Place and Le Hall du Livre Nancy: with Philippe Claudel. Thursday 11 March at 7 pm at the Opera
Opéra capté par
La Fondation Orange est partenaire du projet Maîtrise citoyenne itinérante [L'enfant au cœur].
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