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Gounod: La Nonne sanglante / Opéra Comique

Charles Gounod’s Gothic melodrama La Nonne sanglante staged by David Bobée featuring stellar conductor of Insula orchestra and accentus, Laurence Equilbey.

(‘The Bleeding Nun’)
Opera in five acts (1854)
Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne

The plot of Gounod’s second opera La Nonne sanglante is drawn from Matthew Lewis’s once famous 1796 novel The Monk featuring warring families, two lovers, and the vengeful spectre of the Nun, to which Gounod responds with music that fuses Romanticism with the supernatural on the grandest scale. Stage director David Bobée and conductor Laurence Equilbey’s cinematic interpretation is inspired by horror films and Gothic Romanticism offering a contemporary reading of this neglected masterpiece. Mezzo-soprano Marion Lebèque stars as the Nun, along with the American tenor Michael Spyres as Rodolphe.

Rodolphe: MICHAEL SPYRES Tenor
Agnès: VANNINA SANTONI Soprano
La Nonne: MARION LEBÈGUE Mezzo-soprano
Le Comte de Luddorf: JÉRÔME BOUTILLIER Baritone
Arthur: JODIE DEVOS Soprano
Pierre l’Ermite: JEAN TEITGEN Bass
Le Baron de Moldaw: LUC BERTIN-HUGAULT Bass

ACCENTUS
INSULA ORCHESTRA
Conductor LAURENCE EQUILBEY
Stage Director DAVID BOBÉE

Video Director FRANÇOIS ROUSSILLON
Filmed on 10 and 12 June 2018 at the Opéra Comique, Paris, France

[2.110632 / NBD0097V]
Total playing time: 139 minutes · Language: French · Subtitles: French, English, German, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 · DVD 9 · Region: 0
BD: HD 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C