Record Release: Like Flesh by Sivan Eldar

Live at the Opéra de Lille

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<img src="/media/uploads/magazine/2025/parution-CD/cd-likeflesh.jpg" width="450" height="697" style="float: right;" caption="false" />Suffering in an unhappy marriage, a Woman yearns for a world beyond the boundaries of flesh and an existence outside of the conventions of human society. A secret young Lover’s desire instigates an explosive metamorphosis, and Woman finds perfect release as a tree. <a href="https://www.sivaneldar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sivan Eldar</a> composes with<a href="https://brahms.ircam.fr/fr/work/like-flesh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Like Flesh</a> her first opera on a libretto by Cordelia Lynn, a poetic saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. A new eco-feminist myth about our broken relationship with an environment in crisis, interpreted by Maxime Pascal and Le Balcon, with electronic music produced in the Ircam studios, and recorded by b•records at Opéra de Lille. <a href="https://lnk.to/LikeFlesh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="wys-button">Buy or listen CD</a> International release July 04, 2025 Collection Villa Medicis. B·RECORDS / Outhere Music <img src="/media/uploads/lignejaune-100x2.png" alt="" width="100" height="3" /> Opera by Sivan Eldar Libretto by Cordelia Lynn With Helena Rasker, William Dazeley, Juliette Allen, Adèle Carlier, Hélène Fauchère, Guilhem Terrail, Sean Clayton, René Ramos Premier, Florent Baffi Le Balcon orchestra Maxime Pascal conductor Augustin Muller IRCAM electronic Public recording at the Opéra de Lille on the 27 and 28 January 2022 Conception and artistic direction : Baptiste Chouquet & Rémy Gassiat/b•media

Suffering in an unhappy marriage, a Woman yearns for a world beyond the boundaries of flesh and an existence outside of the conventions of human society. A secret young Lover’s desire instigates an explosive metamorphosis, and Woman finds perfect release as a tree. Sivan Eldar composes with Like Flesh her first opera on a libretto by Cordelia Lynn, a poetic saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. A new eco-feminist myth about our broken relationship with an environment in crisis, interpreted by Maxime Pascal and Le Balcon, with electronic music produced in the Ircam studios, and recorded by b•records at Opéra de Lille.

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International release July 04, 2025
Collection Villa Medicis. B·RECORDS / Outhere Music

Opera by Sivan Eldar
Libretto by Cordelia Lynn

With Helena Rasker, William Dazeley, Juliette Allen, Adèle Carlier, Hélène Fauchère, Guilhem Terrail, Sean Clayton, René Ramos Premier, Florent Baffi

Le Balcon orchestra
Maxime Pascal conductor
Augustin Muller IRCAM electronic

Public recording at the Opéra de Lille on the 27 and 28 January 2022
Conception and artistic direction : Baptiste Chouquet & Rémy Gassiat/b•media

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