As in any good romantic comedy, Béatrice and Bénédict spend their time quarreling. In fact, they love to hate each other so much that they have become blind to their true feelings: to put it simply, they love one another. Their friends and family, not fooled for a second, hatch a plan that ends up making them realise what their hearts and heads have hidden from them until now. An opéra-comique inspired by Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.
Opéra-comique in two acts
Music and libretto by Hector Berlioz
Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera de Lyon
Artistic team
Conductor | Daniele Rustioni
Stage director | Damiano Michieletto
Set designer | Paolo Fantin
Costume designer | Agostino Cavalca
Lighting designer | Alessandro Carletti
Choreography and assistant stage director | Chiara Vecchi
Cast
Don Pedro, General | Frédéric Caton
Hero | Ilse Eerens
Béatrice | Michèle Losie
Claudio | Thomas Dolié
Bénédict | Julien Behr
Ursule | Eve-Maud Hubeaux
Somarone | Ivan Thirion
Leonato – Gouverneur de Messine | Gérald Robert-Tissot