The end of the year often announces culinary festivities that are excessively favourable, but it is nevertheless the carrot that will be in the spotlight in the coming weeks in Lyon... however, nothing austere about that!
Indeed, a few years after its creation, the National Opera of the same city will give again the staging imagined by Laurent Pelly for Offenbach's Le Roi Carotte, work with a crazy libretto, if there is one!
Soprano Catherine Trottmann will sing the colourful role of Princess Cunégonde, promised to Prince Fridolin but bewitched along the way by the witch Coloquinte for the benefit of King Carrot, when tenor Grégoire Mour will play the role of Marshal Trac, "minister of the pretty battles" of a kingdom that will have "changed masters" several times during the show.
After these offenbachian celebrations and before the end of the season, we will have the pleasure to hear Catherine Trottmann in the title role of L'Enfant et les sortilèges at the Limoges Opera, Le Comte Ory (Isolier) at the Metz Opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Virtu, Damigella, Pallade) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées or Ravel's Shéhérazade with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France (conductor Mikko Franck).
Grégoire Mour, for his part, will sing Borsa (Rigoletto) at the Opéra de Lyon, then Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur.
Catherine Trottmann © Occurrence - Cyril Cosson Photographie
Grégoire Mour © Jamie Scott
From 13 December to 1 January, 2020
