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Offenbach's Fantasio

Thomas Jolly (stage director), Laurent Campellone (conductor) - With Marianne Crebassa (Fantasio), Franck Leguérinel (Le Roi de Bavière), Marie-Eve Munger (La Princesse Elsbeth)...

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Cast

Thomas Jolly — Stage director

Thibaut Fack — Stage design

Sylvette Dequest — Costume designer

Antoine Travert — Lighting designer

Philippe Berthomé — Lighting designer

Katja Krüger — Dramaturgy, Assistant stage director

Pier Lamandé — Assistant stage director

Magali Perrin Toinin — Assistant costume designer

Marianne Crebassa — Fantasio

Franck Leguérinel — Le Roi de Bavière

Marie-Ève Munger — Princesse Elsbeth

Jean-Sébastien Bou — Prince de Mantoue

Loïc Félix — Marinoni

Alix Le Saux — Flamel

Philippe Estèphe — Sparck

Enguerrand de Hys — Facio

Kevin Amiel — Max

Program notes

In 2017, the Opéra-Comique in Paris breathed new life into Offenbach’s masterpiece Fantasio at the Théâtre du Châtelet, 145 years after its premiere. For this momentous occasion, the illustrious Parisian house calls upon the young stage director Thomas Jolly and his artistic team, the conductor Laurent Campellone, and a cast of fantastic performers—with a marvelous and moving Marianne Crebassa in the title role.

The excellent libretto by Paul de Musset, based on the eponymous play by his brother, the famed poet Alfred, is perfectly set to music by Offenbach, the “Little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées”. It tells the story of Fantasio, a jaded romantic hero with a rebellious cynical streak, who dreams of some great and important event that might save him from languor and disenchantment. The melancholic beauty of the text inspired the composer to write a refined, elegant, and profound score, with a radiantly inventive orchestration and a remarkable dramaturgy—a unique, captivating, tender, and contemplative operatic work.

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