Fanny and Alexander
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Christmas Eve. Staff are just finishing trimming the splendid Christmas tree at the Ekdahl family home in Sweden. The Ekdahls run the local theatre and the young Fanny and Alexander also seem to have been born for the stage. The living room soon fills with the sound of laughter and clinking glasses as well as delicious smells. In the early hours, as the hubbub subsides to naughty giggles and the inebriated guests crawl under the covers (with or without their own partners), the children dream at the spectacle of their magic lantern. Nothing suggests that all warmth will soon disappear from their lives when their father Oscar dies unexpectedly and their mother Emilie soon gets married again, this time to the authoritarian bishop Edvard Vergérus. He is keen to discipline the children and rid Alexander of his vivid fantasies, harshly if necessary …
Cast
A grand opera in two acts
Music by Mikael Karlsson
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
After the film ‘Fanny och Alexander’ by Ingmar Bergman
Under license from Josef Weinberger Ltd
Orchestration: Michael P. Atkinson, Mikael Karlsson
World premiere
Commissioned by De Munt / La Monnaie
With the kind collaboration of Ingmar Bergman Jr. & Cinematograph AB
Conductor ARIANE MATIAKH
Director IVO VAN HOVE
Set & Lighting Designer JAN VERSWEYVELD
Costume Designer AN D’HUYS
Video Designer CHRISTOPHER ASH
Dramaturgy preparation PETER VAN KRAAIJ
Helena Ekdahl SUSAN BULLOCK
Oscar Ekdahl PETER TANTSITS
Emilie Ekdahl SASHA COOKE
Fanny SARAH DEWEZ *
Alexander JAY WEINER *
Bishop Edvard Vergerus THOMAS HAMPSON
Justina ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER
Isak Jacobi LOA FALKMAN
Ismaël ARYEH NUSSBAUM COHEN
Aron ALEXANDER SPRAGUE
Carl Ekdahl JUSTIN HOPKINS
Lydia POLLY LEECH
Gustav Adolf Ekdahl GAVAN RING
Alma Ekdahl MARGAUX DE VALENSART °
Paulina MARION BAUWENS °°
Esmeralda BLANDINE COULON °
° MM Laureate
°° MM Soloist
*Member of Children's and youth choruses of La Monnaie
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
Production DE MUNT / LA MONNAIE
In co-production with Shelter Prod and Prospero MM Productions, with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter
