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\u2018The setting is a replica of the Bordeaux Opera House with its antique columns, Corinthian capitals and small balconies where the choir members take their places, becoming spectators and commentators on the action. Use gestures that are not natural but affected, in keeping with the exceptional nature of the characters and situations they experience. Assume the ballets, the static nature of the action, the implausibilities of the plot. Respect the dramatic impulse, its slowness, its digressions, even its missteps, but do not allow any dead time to set in, all with humour. These options are also those of Rapha\u00ebl Pichon, whose conducting shows similar inventiveness. Reinvented, the music of Dardanus springs spontaneously, limpid, fluid, lively, alert, skilful but always youthful. No surprise there from the founder of an ensemble whose name was inspired by a ballet by Rameau: Pygmalion!\u2019  <\/del> <\/ins>(Forum Opera<\/em>, Christophe Rizoud, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Michel Fau offers the audience an \u2018excessive and aesthetic frenzy\u2019. His staging, carried by exceptionally modern sets and costumes, transports us to a unique universe. Rameau’s original and prolific work, presented at the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Bordeaux under the direction of Rapha\u00ebl Pichon, is enjoying an exceptional renaissance.\u2019 (Bachtrack<\/em>, Roxane Gennaoui, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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D<\/span>ardanus,<\/span> t<\/span>he<\/span> f<\/span>irst<\/span> o<\/span>pera<\/span> s<\/span>taged:<\/span> a<\/span> m<\/span>arvel<\/span> o<\/span>f c<\/span>olours,<\/span> a<\/span> m<\/span>agic<\/span> o<\/span>f v<\/span>oices!<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dardanus<\/em> is the first opera staged for Pygmalion, the highlight of the ensemble’s residency in Bordeaux. Among six tragedies, Dardanus<\/em> is undoubtedly the work in which Rameau’s multifaceted genius is most fully apparent. The importance given to the orchestra in accompanying the singing reaches full maturity here. The libretto presents all the \u2018themes\u2019 of French opera: thwarted love, the valour of the secretly loved hero, the visionary magician and the infernal spirits. Michel Fau’s staging pushes the baroque spirit to its peak: bright colours, extravagant costumes, dances and digressions to \u2018reinvent 18th-century opera\u2019, in his own words! Amidst the glitter, buds and flowers, and the sea stirred up by Neptune’s anger, Karina Gauvin, Ga\u00eblle Arquez, Reinoud van Mechelen, Florian Sempey, Nahuel di Pierro, Katherine Watson, Etienne Bazola, Virgile Ancely and Guillaume Guti\u00e9rrez portray whimsical and humorous characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opera was awarded the 2015 Grand Prix<\/em> (Best Lyric Show of the Year) by the Professional Union of Theatre, Music and Dance Critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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