“Paul Hindemith's one-act opera live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on November 28, 2016”
Klementia, who has been a nun for several years, is troubled by an apparition of Saint Susanna. The latter, performed by Anna Caterina Antonacci, lifts the veil on a carnal world she finds disturbing. Encouraged to confide by this awakening, Klementia recounts the passion of a young girl in the convent who many years before had stripped naked and embraced the body of Christ on the Cross. Darkness and light, life and death, body and soul all struggle and dialogue in this short, smouldering work in which the biblical figure of Susanna takes on an unparalleled psychological dimension.
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Cast
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Anna Caterina Antonacci
Susanna
Known for
Lord of the Ants
Renée Morloc
Klementia
Also in
Eugene Onegin
Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo
Alte Nonne
Also in
L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille)
Carlo Rizzi
Conductor
Also in
Verdi La Traviata
Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana
Mario Martone Director · August Stramm Writer Paul Hindemith Composer
First release November 28, 2016
Production
Opéra National de Paris
Production
Languages
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
France · November 28, 2016
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No release date listed for United States.
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