''Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne'' is a 2009 opera by Philippe Boesmans to a

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

by Swiss dramatist and director Luc Bondy based on the anti-conformist play ''Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda'' by Witold Gombrowicz.''Droit & littérature'', Koen Lemmens, François Ost, François Jongen – 2874550701 (2007): "En 1965, ''Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne'' est traduite en français et mise en scène au ... Au printemps 2009, cette pièce sera transformée en opéra à Paris sur une musique de Philippe Boesmans et un livret de Luc Bondy." ''Yvonne'' is the fourth in a series of operas with librettos by Luc Bondy, and the first of the four to be written in French not German. The libretto for Boesmans' subsequent French opera, ''

Au monde ''Au monde'' is a 2014 French-language opera by Philippe Boesmans in twenty scenes to a libretto by French dramatist after his own 2004 play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Théâtre royal de la Monnaie Brussels on 30 March 2014. Th ...

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*Dorte Lyssewski (Yvonne),

Mireille Delunsch Mireille Delunsch (born 2 November 1962) is a French soprano. She was born in Mulhouse, and studied musicology and voice at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. Her debut was at the Opéra national du Rhin in Mulhouse, in Mussorgsky's '' Boris Godun ...

(Le Reine Marguerite), Paul Gay (Le Roi Ignace), Yann Beuron (Le Prince Philippe), Victor von Halem (Le Chambellan), Hannah Esther Minutillo (Isabelle), Jason Bridges (Cyrille), Jean-Luc Ballestra (Cyprien), Guillaume Antoine (Innocent), Marc Cossu-Leaonian (Valentin) Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling, Cypres. The recording was awarded Diapason d'or by the French music magazine Diapason.

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