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February 10,
7 p.m.- midnight, February 11,
8 p.m.- midnight, February 13,
5 p.m.- midnight

Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie

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Like flesh

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For their first opera, the Israeli composer Sivan Eldar and her librettist Cordelia Lynn draw inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a woman longs for a world beyond the limits of flesh and for an expression free from the conventions of human society. The secret desire of a young lover causes an explosive metamorphosis, transforming the woman into a tree and giving her freedom. But the world is as hostile to trees as it is to human beings, and in the heart of the forest, the lover and the forester claim this body of wood and leaves as their own, one for money, the other for love. Sivan Eldar continues here the exploration, already begun in You'll drown, dear (2018) and Heave (2020), of the possibilities of electronic manipulation of the voice in the form of a long process of liberation and exposure in pursuit of clarity. Like flesh   - 2022 Premiere Commissioned by the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra Orchestre national de Montpellier, and the Opéra national de Lorraine Chamber opera by  Sivan Eldar libretto Cordelia Lynn Maxime Pascal conductor Silvia Costa staging Francesco d’Abbraccio AI video creation Costumes Laura Dondoli Andrea Sanson lights Augustin Muller Ircam computer music design Sound projection Florent Derex Chorus master Alain Muller, Bianca Chillemi Assistant to the musical director Richard Wilberforce Assistant staging Gabrielė Bak&scaron;ytė Set design and props assistant Elena Zamparutti Assistant director Alessio Valmori With La Femme, the tree Helena Rasker, Le Forestier, her husband William Dazeley, Student Juliette Allen, the forest Adèle Carlier, Hélène Fauchère, Guilhem Terrail, Sean Clayton, René Ramos Premier, Florent Baffi Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie and electronics

For their first opera, the Israeli composer Sivan Eldar and her librettist Cordelia Lynn draw inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a woman longs for a world beyond the limits of flesh and for an expression free from the conventions of human society. The secret desire of a young lover causes an explosive metamorphosis, transforming the woman into a tree and giving her freedom. But the world is as hostile to trees as it is to human beings, and in the heart of the forest, the lover and the forester claim this body of wood and leaves as their own, one for money, the other for love.

Sivan Eldar continues here the exploration, already begun in You'll drown, dear (2018) and Heave (2020), of the possibilities of electronic manipulation of the voice in the form of a long process of liberation and exposure in pursuit of clarity.

Like flesh - 2022 Premiere
Commissioned by the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra Orchestre national de Montpellier, and the Opéra national de Lorraine
Chamber opera by Sivan Eldar
libretto Cordelia Lynn

Maxime Pascal conductor
Silvia Costa staging
Francesco d’Abbraccio AI video creation
Costumes Laura Dondoli
Andrea Sanson lights
Augustin Muller Ircam computer music design
Sound projection Florent Derex
Chorus master Alain Muller, Bianca Chillemi

Assistant to the musical director Richard Wilberforce
Assistant staging Gabrielė Bakšytė
Set design and props assistant Elena Zamparutti
Assistant director Alessio Valmori

With La Femme, the tree Helena Rasker, Le Forestier, her husband William Dazeley, Student Juliette Allen, the forest Adèle Carlier, Hélène Fauchère, Guilhem Terrail, Sean Clayton, René Ramos Premier, Florent Baffi

Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie and electronics

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https://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/evenement/like-flesh

Opéra de Lille Production. Opéra Orchestre national de Montpellier, Opéra national de Lorraine, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Anvers), lRCAM-Centre Pompidou Coproduction. In collaboration with Le Balcon. With the support of enoa (réseau européen d'académies d'opéra), du programme Europe Créative de l'Union européenne et de la Fondation Camargo. Score by Éditions Durand / Universal Music Classical. Like flesh is the winner of the FEDORA prize for Opera 2021 with the support of Generali.