Brodeck
Daan Janssens
Show in French, with French subtitles
With intermission
Students and - 30 years old
Tickets at 10 €
for Thu, March 18. 2027
Reservations at the ticket office Place Stanislas
from June 30 2026
or opera@opera-nancy.fr
Fifteen minutes to understand
One hour before the performance
(free, with a ticket for the show)
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.
Brodeck, opéra en deux actes
Créé le 9 février 2024 à Anvers, à l’Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Livret Daan Janssens et Fabrice Murgia d’après Le Rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel
Musique Daan Janssens
Création française le 14 mars 2027 à l'Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Production
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Coproduction
Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Collaboration
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
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 by Philippe Claudel)
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
Axa Assurances Vie Mutuelle is a major sponsor of the project Hymns
The Orange Fondation is a partner in the Travelling youth choir project [The Child at the Heart].
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