Screening of Jacques Offenbach’s opera “Robinson Crusoe” at Alliance Française de Cork, project led by the Rennes Opera.Daniel Defoe’s world-famous story of Robinson Crusoe, the talent of Jacques Offenbach, Laurent Pelly’s debut production at the Rennes Opera, and a particularly promising cast… an exceptional event to close out the season.While Offenbach’s operettas are regularly featured on opera house programs, his more serious works are rarely performed, with the exception of The Tales of Hoffmann.The music of Robinson Crusoe reveals a wealth of imagination and colour, performed by the Orchestre National de Bretagne and conductor Guillaume Tourniaire, one of the foremost specialists in French music. Who better than Laurent Pelly to stage this little-known score and strike the subtle balance between laughter and poetry, while exploring our relationship with the unknown and the foreign?Running time: approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. Opera sung in French, with English subtitles.
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