BALLET PRELJOCAJ

Angelin Preljocaj

WINTERREISE
Based upon Die Winterreise by Schubert

Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Music Die Winterreise, Franz Schubert
Scenography Constance Guisset
Lighting Eric Soyer
Baritone Thomas Tatzl
Piano James Vaughan
Assistante à la création Claudia De Smet
Choréologue Dany Lévêque
Assistant, adjoint à la direction artistique Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Assistante répétitrice Cécile Medour

With the dancers of Ballet Preljocaj
Created for the ballet at La Scala in Milan, 24 January 2019
No interval – Live music

ABOUT THE SHOW

In January 2019, Angelin Preljocaj choreographed a new production for the Ballet de la Scala in Milan, a world premiere commissioned as part of the cycle of chamber music ballets at La Scala. For the first time, the choreographer chose to create around a Franz Schubert’s masterpiece, Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey). A score for piano and voice on poems by Wilhelm Müller, a score whose profound melancholy is striking, and whose episodes mark out the desperate journey of a man betrayed by his beloved. Winterreise is a dive into the poetic world of lieder, where emotional charge carries the audience into the abyss of inner-reflection.

“Projects to chamber music create, through their very structure, a complicity between the musicians, the dancers and the audience; like a magic triangle. Much more than with a large orchestra.
That’s one of the reasons why I chose Winterreise : Schubert’s 24 Lieder generate an intimate atmosphere that I would like to share in this winter journey. Which is, in fact, a journey through life. I imagine it like a winter garden, a place where winter is present but where the other seasons are also presaged. An experimental laboratory of life.”
Angelin Preljocaj

Commissonned by La Scala of Milano
Production Ballet Preljocaj – Coproduction Festival Montpellier Danse 2019 and Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. Residence of creation: Les Salins – Scène Nationale de Martigues

Transcendanses a coproduction from Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées