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Placido Domingo conducting in Monte Carlo



 

Placido Domingo sings less and uses the baton more – here in Hollywood and soon in Monaco. Photo Arts blogg.

Next season at the Monte Carlo-opera has goodies for every taste in a repertoire outside the beaten track.

Text and photos by Torkil Baden

MONTE CARLO: The exclusive opera house in Monaco is not so exclusive as you might think. It is actually very accessible by train or by car, and 150 euro for the best tickets on a gala premiere is worth the investment.

Opera director Jean-Louis Grinda (53) does not choose the beaten track next season

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. He has presented an original and varied repertoire starting with one of the great 1900-composers, Gian Carlo Menotti. October 24th is the first of four nights with the double bill “Amelia al ballo – The Telephone” starring Norah Amsellem and Micaela Oeste.

The biggest star of the production is probably the musical director: Placido Domingo, now 72.

 Fête Nationale

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. Even in Monaco the resources have been limited. But “Rheingold”, “L’Or du Rhin”, will be seen in a new Grinda-production starting November 19 starting November 19th, the national day, with Latvian Egil Silins as Wotan and Austrian Natascha Petrinsky as Fricka.

Torkil Baden is ready for gala in Monte Carlo

Even if this performance is taking place in the larger Grimaldi Forum, the gala premiere on this “Fête Nationale monégasque” are exclusively for honoratiores invited by the palace and prince Albert. And millionaires, generals, politicians and clergy fill the hall together with diplomats, traditionally being decorated by the prince in a spectacular morning ceremony.

After the invitation-premiere there follows two performances open to the public in this Wagner celebration year.

Monte Carlo opera, named Salle Garnier is situated in this building, which also includes the famouse Casino of Monte Carlo. Photo seen from the Sea side.

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After Wagner the next full scale opera is “Rusalka” in January. Then follows “L’Elisir d’Amore” in February and Haydn’s “Il Mondo della Luna” in March.

Next season will certainly have a mighty climax during four nights in April with Ramon Vargas as Verdi’s Ernani.

The informative website is simply “www.opera.mc”.

Ticket office in French is “location”, and sales open in July.

The Opéra de Monte-Carlo is an opera house, which is part of the Monte Carlo Casino located in the principality of Monaco.

With the lack of cultural diversions available in Monaco in the 1870s, Prince Charles III, along with the Société des bains de mer, decided to include a concert hall as part of the casino. The main public entrance to the hall was from the casino, while Charles III’s private entrance was on the western side
. It opened in 1879 and became known as the Salle Garnier, after the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it.

The architect Charles Garnier also designed the Paris opera house now known as the Palace Garnier, Situated on top of the famouse Avenue de l´Opera. The Salle Garnier is much smaller, seating 524, compared to about 2,000 for the Palais Garnier, and unlike the Paris theatre, which was started in 1861 and only completed in 1875, the Salle Garnier was constructed in only eight and a half months. Nevertheless, its ornate style was heavily influenced by that of the Palais Garnier, and many of the same artists worked on both theatres. Although the Monte Carlo theatre was not originally intended for opera, it was soon used frequently for that purpose and was remodeled in 1898–99 by Henri Schmit, primarily in the stage area, to make it more suitable for opera.

The hall was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by Sarah Bernhardt dressed as a nymph. The first opera performed there was Robert Planquette´s Le Chevalier Gaston on 8 February 1879, followed by three additional operas in the first season.

Please enjoy Torkil Badens interior photos from the operahouse.

Bon voyage!

Entrance to Salle Garnier “The Monte Carlo Opera” from the hall. Photo: Torkil Baden

Detail from wall decoration at Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo, photo: Torkil Baden

 

Famouse composers are remembered in the interior at Salle Garnier in the Monte Carlo Opera, here represented by Verdi. Photo: Torkil Baden

The Prince loge in Salle Garnier Monte Carlo, photo: Torkil Baden.



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