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Emmanuel Chabrier's L'Etoile
Laurent Pelly (stage director), Patrick Fournillier (conductor) — With Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Lazuli), Cristophe Mortagne (Le Roi Ouf) and Hélène Guilmette (La Princesse Laoula)
Cast
Laurent Pelly — scen director, costumes
Chantal Thomas — Set designer
Joël Adam — Lighting
Agathe Melinand — Dramatist
Stéphanie d'Oustrac — Lazuli
Christophe Mortagne — Le Roi Ouf
Jérôme Varnier — Siroco
schema notes
Discover Emmanuel Chabrier's L'Étoile (The Star), an opéra bouffe in three acts staged by the widely acclaimed Laurent Pelly at the Dutch National Opera! Chabrier's offbeat scenario takes us into the imaginary kingdom of King Ouf, a king whose yearly birthday celebrations take a most curious form: a public execution. This year, he chooses the peddler Lazuli, who speaks insultingly of the king, as the intended victim. But the king's astrologer informs him that his destiny is inextricably linked with that of Lazuli, and th
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French mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac made her first musical steps in her hometown of Rennes and continued her studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon. Since 1998 she has been performing in lead roles in opera houses inside and outside of Europe, such as Opéra national de Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, and festivals like the Salzburger Festspiele and Glyndebourne Festival. Apart from her focus on baroque and classical repertoire, most notably Händel and Mozart, she sings roles in mainly the French Romantic repertoire. She performed roles in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dialogues des Carmélites, Les Troyens, Pelléas et Mélisande and the title role in Carmen. At Dutch National Opera she previously performed the role of Lazuli in l’Étoile (2014).
- Stéphanie d’Oustrac sings the title role in Agrippina, the opera to be seen at Dutch National Opera from 13 to 28 January 2024.
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Stéphanie d'Oustrac
French mezzo-soprano (born 1974)
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (born 1974, in Rennes) is a French mezzo-soprano.
Biography
[edit]Stéphanie d'Oustrac was born in Rennes in 1974. She is the great grand niece of Francis Poulenc[1] and Jacques La Presle.
Her family background was neither musical nor cultured, but around 11 she joined a local choir because she was asthmatic and shy; she began to get solos in the choir and developed ambitions to be an actress.[1] She was part of the Maîtrise de Bretagne children's choir. She was a student of Oleg Afonine for nearly a year.
Her teachers included Margreet Honig and Bernard Roubeau, a vocal therapist with whom she continued to works mainly on the physiology behind singing. She undertook formal studies at the conservatoires in Rennes and Lyon.[1] At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon she received the First Prize for Song in 1998 and was spotted by Willia