Festival Antiquity, mythology and Romanticism

Adrien

Concert program
Étienne-Nicolas MÉHUL
Adrien (1799) (concert version)
Interpreters
ORFEO ORCHESTRA
PURCELL CHOIR
György Vashegyi, conductor

Philippe Do, Adrien
Gabrielle Philiponet, Émirène
Jennifer Borghi, Sabine
Philippe Talbot, Pharnaspe
Marc Barrard, Cosroès
Nicolas Courjal, Ructile
Jean Teitgen, Flaminius
Mehul_DHM_2
26 June 2012
Palace of Arts, Budapest (Hungary)
Banned by the political authorities in 1791, Méhul’s opera praises the magnanimity of the Roman emperor Hadrian, in whom, in 1799, Bonaparte was to recognise himself.
Presenting the typical ‘Revolutionary’ themes of heroism in war and delicacy in love, this work is as spectacular today as it ever was.
Produzione Palazzetto Bru Zane.
In partenariato con il Palace of Arts di Budapest