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Composer: Wolfgang A. Mozart

Diggi, daggi, shurry, murry, horum, harum…: with this magical spell, young shepherd Bastien will have the power to win back the heart of his beloved shepherdess Bastienne. Mozart composed this short Singspiel at the age of 12. In a stage production by Mirabelle Ordinaire, the action is reframed in a modern funfair where fairgoers come at shooting ranges to shoot cardboard wolves. The fickle Bastien has become the machinist in charge of the stands's maintenance and the twelve musicians play in the bandstand. Performed in its French version, faithful to Mozart’s sensibility, the opera has been adapted to be easily understandable to every audience.Visuel © Elena Bauer / OnP

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Bastien et Bastienne

Diggi, daggi, shurry, murry, horum, harum…: with this magical spell, young shepherd Bastien will have the power to win back the heart of his beloved shepherdess Bastienne. Mozart composed this short Singspiel at the age of 12. In a stage production b

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bastien und Bastienne

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg. A child prodigy (he took his first harpsichord lessons when he was 4 and began composition at 6), he quickly became famous, thanks to the many tours he made with his father, Leopold, who was himself vice chapel-master at the court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a mentor and teacher to his son. At the age of 16, Mozart was appointed concertmaster to the new Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Hieronymus von Colleredo. He was commissioned to compose works to the tastes of his day and asked to perform. But he quickly grew tired of the confining environment of Salzburg and, in 1777, he resigned his position at the court. In 1779, he became the resident organist at the Salzburg cathedral, then settled in Vienna. He performed for the Court, gave music lessons and piano concerts, while being vice chapel-master at the cathedral. His Don Giovanni was a huge success in Prague but was poorly received in Vienna. Mozart's health was declining and he spent the last years of his life in poverty. He died on the night of 5 to 6 December 1791: he was not yet 35 years old. He was buried in a common grave, due to sanitary measures but also because of his family's destitution. In spite of his early death, Mozart created in 30 years one of the greatest legacy in music history, comprising classical masterpieces in almost every musical genre: opera, sacred music (including his famous Requiem), symphonic, concert or chamber music... His operas include some early works such as La Finta semplice, Mitridate re di Ponto, Lucio Silla, or La Finta giardiniera. Composed in 1781 Idomeneo started to reveal Mozart's personality. Then Il Seraglio, composed the next year, marked his true independence as an artist and the beginning of his mature masterpieces: Le Nozze di Figaro in 1786, Don Giovanni in 1787, The Magic Flute in 1791. With La Clemenza di Tito Mozart returned to the seria genre.

Whilst still a student, she sang the roles of Daisy in Gershwin’s Lady Be Good in Poitiers and La Belle Jeune Dame in the French premier of Memnon by Vojtĕch Saudek at the Czech Cultural Centre in Paris in 2007. In 2010, she performed the Bachianas Brasileiras by Villa Lobos with the Lyon Cello Orchestra at the Vox Musica Festival and then interpreted the roles of the Baroness of Gondremark in La Vie Parisienne at the Theatre Royal in Marrakech, and Parthœnis in Yves Coudray’s production of La Belle Hélène. In Poitiers in 2012, she sang the roles of Diane in Orpheus in the Underworld and Lucy in The Telephone by Menotti, followed by Serpetta in La Finta Giardiniera at the Paris Conservatoire and Zelmira in Haydn’s Armida at the Kvarner Festival in Opatija, Croatia. In 2013, she performed at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris in the production Avec Stephen Sondheim en bonne compagnie, and in 2015, she sang Corrina in Il Viaggio a Reims, a Paris Conservatoire production performed at the Cité de la Musique.

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In 2015, at the Paris Opera, she wrote and directed the show Les Temps Aventureux for the “1, 2, 3 Opéra! Festival” as part of the Ten Months of School and Opera programme. She was the assistant to Christophe Perton for Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Atelier lyrique in 2014 and to Andrei Serban for Verdi’s Otello in 2004. In New York she took on several projects alternating between directing, dance, and dramaturgy. She also assisted Robert Wilson for Les Fables de La Fontaine at the Comédie-Française in 2003. An official translator of English language dramatic works for the Maison Antoine Vitez, she translated the libretto for the children’s opera Vol Retour by Joanna Lee and Rory Mullarkey which will have its French premiere in December 2015 under the aegis of the Paris Opera Academy. She earned her doctorate in theatrical studies at Columbia University (2011) and since 2012, has been leading theatre workshops on Shakespeare at Sciences Po. As of September 2015, she will be in residence at the Paris Opera’s Academy.

Philippe Albaric worked as a stage electrician at the Palais Garnier from 1985 to 1989, before being appointed head of the lighting team at the Opéra Bastille. In 1992, he was André Diot's assistant for the tour of Mzensk's Lady Macbeth at La Scala in Milan. In October 1992, he became head of lighting production at Opéra Bastille. In 2000, he adapted the lighting for La Bayadère for the Lowry, when the Paris Opera Ballet toured Manchester. Since 2012, Philippe Albaric has been lighting director at the Amphithéâtre Bastille, where he has taken part in numerous creations. A lighting trainer at the CFPTS, he collaborated on tours of the “Dix mois d'école et d'opéra” program from 2014 to 2018. He collaborated on the operetta Là-haut directed by Pascal Neyron at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet in 2022. The same year, he collaborated on the recital Nocturne, vidéo en-chantée (Denis Guéguin) with the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris. In 2024, in the Cévennes, he collaborated on the Défilé de mode en musique with works by Brune. At the Opéra national de Paris: Falstaff, 1999; Attila, 2001; Paquita, 2001; Don Quichotte (ballet), 2002

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